Molecular polarization potentials

One of us has used molecular polarization potentials (MPP) to study the interaction of aromatic molecules, including furan, thiophene, and pyridine with a positive unitary charge, these maps being powerful tools for the study of intermolecular interactions and chemical reactivity [129,130], This kind of study leads us to examine theoretically the problem of the interaction between cations and anions with aromatic rings. We were pioneers in proposing that, in parallel with cation-7i-systems (for instance, benzene), there should exists anion-perfhiorinated-7i-systems (for instance, hexafluorobenzene) [131]. These studies include tetrafluorofuran and tetrafluorothiophene (128, 129). Simultaneously, Mascal et al. [132] described the same phenomenon but with 1,3,5-triazine (130) and 2,4,6-trifluoro-l,3,5-triazine (131) as acid 7i-systems. The group of the University of Palma de Mallorca has published a large number of papers on this topic [133] that are well summarized in a two recent reviews [134,135],... 

Gao J (1998) A molecular-orbital derived polarization potential for liquid water. J Chem Phys 109(6) 2346-2354... 

The calculated molecular electrostatic potential is particularly well suited for the analysis of noncovaient interactions, which do not involve making or breaking covalent bonds and which occur without any extensive polarization or charge transfer between the interacting species. As we have discussed in the previous section, V(r) has been shown to be useful... 

These results are given for the DNA bases in Table 4. The calculated effects are quite substantial, with the predicted increases in dipole moments essentially parallelling the magnitudes of the polarization energies. Given (p solute solution molecular electrostatic potentials can also be obtained in solution, and used to derive atomic charges.85,86... 

The new treatment had its origins partly in ab initio molecular orbital calculations of substituent effects and partly in extensive studies of gas-phase proton transfer reactions from about 1980 (Section V.A). Various aspects of this work essentially drew attention to the importance of substituent polarizability. In 1986 Taft, Topsom and their colleagues252 developed a scale of directional substituent polarizability parameters , oa, by ab initio calculations of directional electrostatic polarization potentials at the 3-21G//3-31G level for a large set of CH3X molecules. The oa values were shown to be useful in the correlation analysis of gas-phase acidities of several series of substrates252, and such work has subsequently been extended by Taft and Topsom151. 

A speculative proposal was made thirty years ago by Schmid and Krenmayr77, namely that a nitrosyl ion solvated, but not covalently bonded, by a water molecule may be involved in these systems. This hypothesis was investigated theoretically in 1984 by Nguyen and Hegarty78 who carried out ab initio SCF calculations of structure and properties employing the minimal STO-3G basis set, a split-valence basis set plus polarization functions. Optimized geometries of six planar and two nonplanar forms were studied for the nitrosoacidium ion. The lowest minimum of molecular electrostatic potential... 

A modification of the atomic approach was also proposed by Gaillard et al. using molecular lipophilicity potential (MLP) as a 3D source of two lipophilicity parameters calculated from the water-accessible surface, namely a hydrophobic parameter expressed as the sum ofthe positive lipophilicity potential (EM LP+) and a polar parameter expressed as the sum of the negative lipophilicity potential (EMLP—)... 

Polarization Potential. Afimction describing the energy of electronic relaxation of a molecular charge distribution following interaction with a point positive charge. The polarization potential may be added to the Electrostatic Potential to provide a more accurate account of the interaction of a point-positive charge and a molecule. 

Besides the changes in the dipole moment, the electron density redistribution induced upon solvation can also be examined from the changes in the molecular electrostatic potential [66-68], or the variation in the molecular volume [69], These studies have identified specific trends for the solvation of neutral, polar solutes and charged species. In the former case, solvation in polar solvents is accompanied by an electron shift from the... 

Murray JS, Peralta-Inga Z, Politzer P, Ekanayake K, LeBreton P (2001) Computational characterization of nucleotide bases Molecular surfaceelectrostatic potentials and local ionization energies, and local polarization energies, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 83 245-254... 

The adiabatic potential energy curves for these electronic states calculated in the Born-Oppenhelmer approximation, are given in Figure 1. Since we have discussed the choice of basis functions and the choice of configurations for these multiconfiguration self-consistent field (MCSCF) computations (12) previously (] - ), we shall not explore these questions in any detail here. Suffice it to say that the basis set for Li describes the lowest 2s and 2p states of the Li atom at essentially the Hartree-Fock level of accuracy, and includes a set of crudely optimized d functions to accommodate molecular polarization effects. The basis set we employed for calculations involving Na is somewhat less well optimized than is the Li basis in particular, so molecular orbitals are not as well described for Na2 (relatively speaking) as they are for LI2. 

Figure 1 Contour map of the negative of the molecular electrostatic potential for acetamide at the HF/3-21G( ) level calculated from the full molecular wavefunction. Shading indicates approximate value of the potential in the region. Thus, the MEP near the oxygen is negative, and the MEP near the amide hydrogens (not shown) is positive. The basis set has polarization functions only on second-row atoms.

Improvements of the Pohtzer hydrophobic model were later proposed using additional quantum-chemical descriptors derived from the molecular electrostatic potential, dipole moment, and ionization energies. These descriptors were searched for to give the best estimations of the cavity term, polarity/dipolarizability term, and hydrogen-bond parameters defined in -> linear solvation energy relationships [Haeberlein and Brinck, 1997]. 

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