Molecular structure and energy

All the techniques described above can be used to calculate molecular structures and energies. Which other properties are important for chemoinformatics Most applications have used semi-empirical theory to calculate properties or descriptors, but ab-initio and DFT are equally applicable. In the following, we describe some typical properties and descriptors that have been used in quantitative structure-activity (QSAR) and structure-property (QSPR) relationships. 

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Molecular recognition, chirality and, in monolayers at the air-water interface, 28, 45 Molecular structure and energy, calculation of, by force-field methods, 13,1... 

Force-field methods, calculation of molecular structure and energy by, 13, 1... 

Force-field methods, calculation of molecular structure and energy by, 13, 1 Free radical chain processes in aliphatic systems involving an electron-transfer reaction, 23, 271... 

Even today, however, it is not a simple task to obtain chemical pictures at the transition state (TS) or along a reaction path. Discussion on the nature of TS is, for instance, often conducted using other features such as molecular structures and energy profiles rather than the wave functions themselves if the bond length at TS is closer to that of the product than reactant, it is called a late TS, or if the reaction is highly exothermic, this reaction is assumed to proceed via an early TS. These discussions are qualitative and ambiguous. A more quantitative and clear-cut chemical description is necessary. 

It is widely appreciated that chemical and biochemical reactions in the condensed phase are stochastic. It has been more than 60 years since Delbriick studied a stochastic chemical reaction system in terms of the chemical master equation. Kramers theory, which connects the rate of a chemical reaction with the molecular structures and energies of the reactants, is established as a central component of theoretical chemistry [77], Yet study of the dynamics of chemical and biochemical reaction systems, in terms of either deterministic differential equations or the stochastic CME, is not the exclusive domain of chemists. Recent developments in the simulation of reaction systems are the work of many sorts of scientists, ranging from control engineers to microbiologists, all interested in the dynamic behavior of biochemical reaction systems [199, 210],... 

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The quantum mechanical methods described so lar all properly treat the electrons as quantum particles. A vastly simpler approach toward obtaining molecular structures and energies is to treat atoms as classical particles. The potential energy is then just a function of the nuclear coordinates. MM, also referred to as force field methods, involves specifying the various functions used to relate nuclear positions to energy and fitting these functions to experimental data. It is a highly empirical approach, dependent on the choice of reference data, the functional form, and selection of parameters. 

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