Dipole, field forces

Dipole-bound anions (5a, 4f) in which the extra electron is attracted primarily by the dipole force field of the polar molecule and for which rotation-to-electronic coupling is most important in inducing electron ejection. 

Electrostatic terms other than the simple charge interactions above are commonly included in molecular mechanics calculations. particularly dipole-dipole interactions. More recently, second-order electrostatic interactions like those describing polarizability have been added to some force fields. 

The range of systems that have been studied by force field methods is extremely varied. Some force fields liave been developed to study just one atomic or molecular sp>ecies under a wider range of conditions. For example, the chlorine model of Rodger, Stone and TUdesley [Rodger et al 1988] can be used to study the solid, liquid and gaseous phases. This is an anisotropic site model, in which the interaction between a pair of sites on two molecules dep>ends not only upon the separation between the sites (as in an isotropic model such as the Lennard-Jones model) but also upon the orientation of the site-site vector with resp>ect to the bond vectors of the two molecules. The model includes an electrostatic component which contciins dipwle-dipole, dipole-quadrupole and quadrupole-quadrupole terms, and the van der Waals contribution is modelled using a Buckingham-like function. 

Another difference between the force fields is the calculation of electrostatic interactions. AMBER, BIO+, and OPLS use point charges to model electrostatic interactions. MM+ calculates electrostatic interactions using bond dipoles. The bond dipole method may not adequately simulate very polar or charged systems. 

The MM2 and MM3 force fields use a bond dipole description for E. Tire interaction between two dipoles is given by... 

Keywords Empirical force field, Electronic polarization, Polarizability, Force field, Inducible dipoles,... 

Electronic polarizability is often included in force fields via the use of induced dipoles. Assuming that hyperpolarization effects are absent, the induced dipoles respond linearly relative to the electric field. In this case, the induced dipole p on an atom is the product of the total electric field E and the atomic polarizability tensor a. 

The total electric field, E, is composed of the external electric field from the permanent charges E° and the contribution from other induced dipoles. This is the basis of most polarizable force fields currently being developed for biomolecular simulations. In the present chapter an overview of the formalisms most commonly used for MM force fields will be presented. It should be emphasized that this chapter is not meant to provide a broad overview of the field but rather focuses on the formalisms of the induced dipole, classical Drude oscillator and fluctuating charge models and their development in the context of providing a practical polarization model for molecular simulations of biological macromolecules [12-21], While references to works in which the different methods have been developed and applied are included throughout the text, the major discussion of the implementation of these models focuses... 

All contributions to the forces from terms involving derivatives with respect to the dipoles are zero because of the condition in Eq. (9-13) [13, 52], Attaining this condition is a necessary prerequisite for using induced dipoles, or any electronic polarization, in force field calculations. 

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