Integrated approach to structure-based enzymatic drug design: molecular modeling, spectroscopy, and experimental bioactivity

B Honarparvar, T Govender, GEM Maguire… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Analysis of the literature involving computational modeling of diseases and drug design with
the aid of experimental spectroscopic techniques reveals that this specific combination of …

DFTB3: Extension of the self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding method (SCC-DFTB)

M Gaus, Q Cui, M Elstner - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding method (SCC-DFTB) is an
approximate quantum chemical method derived from density functional theory (DFT) based …

The REd. Tools: Advances in RESP and ESP charge derivation and force field library building

FY Dupradeau, A Pigache, T Zaffran… - Physical Chemistry …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Deriving atomic charges and building a force field library for a new molecule are key steps
when developing a force field required for conducting structural and energy-based analysis …

Understanding the reactivity of captodative ethylenes in polar cycloaddition reactions. A theoretical study

LR Domingo, E Chamorro, P Pérez - The Journal of organic …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The electrophilic/nucleophilic character of a series of captodative (CD) ethylenes involved in
polar cycloaddition reactions has been studied using DFT methods at the B3LYP/6-31G (d) …

Hybrid meta density functional theory methods for thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, and noncovalent interactions: the MPW1B95 and MPWB1K models and …

Y Zhao, DG Truhlar - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2004 - ACS Publications
Based on the modified Perdew and Wang exchange functional (MPW) and Becke's 1995
correlation functional (B95), we developed two hybrid meta density functional theory …

Analysis of the palladium-catalyzed (aromatic) C–H bond metalation–deprotonation mechanism spanning the entire spectrum of arenes

SI Gorelsky, D Lapointe, K Fagnou - The Journal of organic …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A comprehensive understanding of the C–H bond cleavage step by the concerted
metalation–deprotonation (CMD) pathway is important in further development of cross …

Catalytic Reduction of N2 to NH3 by an Fe–N2 Complex Featuring a C-Atom Anchor

SE Creutz, JC Peters - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014 - ACS Publications
While recent spectroscopic studies have established the presence of an interstitial carbon
atom at the center of the iron–molybdenum cofactor (FeMoco) of MoFe-nitrogenase, its role …

Insight into the balancing effect of active Cu species for hydrogenation of carbon–oxygen bonds

Y Wang, Y Shen, Y Zhao, J Lv, S Wang, X Ma - Acs Catalysis, 2015 - ACS Publications
Hydrogenation of carbon–oxygen (C–O) bonds plays a significant role in organic synthesis.
Cu-based catalysts have been extensively investigated because of their high selectivity in C …

Single-ion solvation free energies and the normal hydrogen electrode potential in methanol, acetonitrile, and dimethyl sulfoxide

CP Kelly, CJ Cramer, DG Truhlar - The Journal of Physical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The division of thermodynamic solvation free energies of electrolytes into contributions from
individual ionic constituents is conventionally accomplished by using the single-ion …

Toward improved description of DNA backbone: revisiting epsilon and zeta torsion force field parameters

M Zgarbová, FJ Luque, J Sponer… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present a refinement of the backbone torsion parameters ε and ζ of the Cornell et al.
AMBER force field for DNA simulations. The new parameters, denoted as εζOL1, were …