Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Electrostatic Embedding with Continuous and Discrete Functions
- 27 June 2006
- journal article
- letter
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Vol. 110 (28) , 13682-13684
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp062768x
Abstract
A quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) implementation that uses the Gaussian electrostatic model (GEM) as the MM force field is presented. GEM relies on the reproduction of electronic density by using auxiliary basis sets to calculate each component of the intermolecular interaction. This hybrid method has been used, along with a conventional QM/MM (point charges) method, to determine the polarization on the QM subsystem by the MM environment in QM/MM calculations on 10 individual H2O dimers and a Mg2+−H2O dimer. We observe that GEM gives the correct polarization response in cases when the MM fragment has a small charge, while the point charges produce significant over-polarization of the QM subsystem and in several cases present an opposite sign for the polarization contribution. In the case when a large charge is located in the MM subsystem, for example, the Mg2+ ion, the opposite is observed at small distances. However, this is overcome by the use of a damped Hermite charge, which provides the correct polarization response.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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