Improved pseudobonds for combined ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical methods
- 23 December 2004
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 122 (2) , 024114
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1834899
Abstract
The pseudobond approach offers a smooth connection at the quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical interface which passes through covalent bonds. It replaces the boundary atom of the environment part with a seven-valence-electron atom to form a pseudobond with the boundary atom of the active part [Y. Zhang, T. S. Lee, and W. Yang, J. Chem. Phys. 110, 46 (1999)]. In its original formulation, the seven-valence-electron boundary atom has the basis set of fluorine and a parametrized effective core potential. Up to now, only the Cps(sp3)–C(sp3) pseudobond has been successfully developed; thus in the case of proteins, it can only be used to cut the protein side chains. Here we employ a different formulation to construct this seven-valence-electron boundary atom, which has its own basis set as well as the effective core potential. We have not only further improved Cps(sp3)–C(sp3) pseudobond, but also developed Cps(sp3)–C(sp2,carbonyl) and Cps(sp3)–N(sp3) pseudobonds for the cutting of protein backbones and nucleic acid bases. The basis set and effective core potential for the seven-valence-electron boundary atom are independent of the molecular mechanical force field. Although the parametrization is performed with density functional calculations using hybrid B3LYP exchange-correlation functional, it is found that the same set of parameters is also applicable to Hartree-Fock and MP2 methods, as well as DFT calculations with other exchange-correlation functionals. Tests on a series of molecules yield very good structural, electronic, and energetic results in comparison with the corresponding full ab initio quantum mechanical calculations.Keywords
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