Potential, intermolecular Lennard-Jones model

From the inception of quantum mechanics, from about 1930 to the late sixties, most research on intermolecular forces was based on two assumptions, namely 1. that the pair potentials could be represented by simple functions, such as the two-parameter Lennard-Jones model,... 

To provide a more quantitative explanation of the magnitudes of the properties of different materials, we must consider several types of intermolecular forces in greater detail than we gave to the Lennard-Jones model potential in Chapter 9. The Lennard-Jones potential describes net repulsive and attractive forces between molecules, but it does not show the origins of these forces. We discuss other intermolecular forces in the following paragraphs and show how they arise from molecular structure. Intermolecular forces are distinguished from intramolecular forces, which lead to the covalent chemical bonds discussed in Chapters 3 and 6. Intramolecular forces between atoms in the covalent bond establish and maintain... 

Based on DFT calculations on chlorophylls and, additionally, on ubiquinone and the RC main detergent, lauryl dimethylamine oxide or LDAO, we have then developed a force field for their classical modelization. Our approach to this undertaking was straightforward. We initially use the DFT optimized structures and the vibrational analysis to determine the bonded part of the potential parameters described by the AMBER potential function. Then, atomic ab initio partial charges on the chromophore are used to account for electrostatic effects. At a later stage, experimental data from X-ray crystallography are used to check the structural properties of the molecule in the condensed state and to refine the intermolecular Lennard-Jones parameters. 

One fascinating feature of the physical chemistry of surfaces is the direct influence of intermolecular forces on interfacial phenomena. The calculation of surface tension in section III-2B, for example, is based on the Lennard-Jones potential function illustrated in Fig. III-6. The wide use of this model potential is based in physical analysis of intermolecular forces that we summarize in this chapter. In this chapter, we briefly discuss the fundamental electromagnetic forces. The electrostatic forces between charged species are covered in Chapter V. 

A proportionality between the theoretical spall strength and the bulk modulus is obtained when a two-parameter model is chosen to represent the intermolecular potential. Other two-parameter representations of the intermolecular potential, such as the Lennard-Jones 6-12 potential, will yield a similar proportionality although the numerical coefficients will differ slightly. 

A complete set of intermolecular potential functions has been developed for use in computer simulations of proteins in their native environment. Parameters have been reported for 25 peptide residues as well as the common neutral and charged terminal groups. The potential functions have the simple Coulomb plus Lennard-Jones form and are compatible with the widely used models for water, TIP4P, TIP3P and SPC. The parameters were obtained and tested primarily in conjunction with Monte Carlo statistical mechanics simulations of 36 pure organic liquids and numerous aqueous solutions of organic ions representative of subunits in the side chains and backbones of proteins... 

In the study of reactivity, Jorgensen and col. have normally used both, the OPLS model and potential functions derived from ab initio calculations. As we have already indicated, when intermolecular pair potentials are applied to the study of a chemical process, the evolution of charges, as well as the Lennard-Jones terms, along the reaction coordinate, has to be considered. For the SN2 reaction in water between chloride anion... 

There are presently two main difficulties which handicap attempts at exact calculation. The first concerns the intermolecular potential, and the hazards of extrapolation from models derived from viscosity measurements have been discussed. Furthermore, such a method is of dubious validity for polyatomic molecules, because the intermolecular repulsive potential will generally appear to become progressively shallower with increasing molecular dimensions if the viscosity data are cast, for example, in the Lennard-Jones form. Energy transfer depends... 

As pointed out earlier, the present treatment attempts to clarify the connection between the sticking probability and the mutual forces of interaction between particles. The van der Waals attraction and Bom repulsion forces are included in the analysis of the relative motion between two electrically neutral aerosol particles. The overall interaction potential between two particles is calculated through the integration of the intermolecular potential, modelled as the Lennard-Jones 6-12 potential, under the assumption of pairwise additivity. The expression for the overall interaction potential in terms of the Hamaker constant and the molecular diameter can be found in Appendix I of (1). The Brownian motions of the two particles are no longer independent because of the interaction force between the two. It is, therefore, necessary to describe the relative motion between the two particles in order to predict the rate of collision and of subsequent coagulation. 

Carbon tetrafluoride. Carbon tetra-fluoride, which undergoes a transition to a plastically crystalline (orientationally disordered) phase, has been investigated by the Parrinello-Rahman molecular dynamics method under constant-pressure conditions (6). A simple intermolecular potential model of the Lennard-Jones form was derived by taking into account the experimen-... 

For the van der Waals interaction one is able to select a large number of different types of intermolecular potentials as seen in Ref. [53], Presently we have selected the 6-12 Lennard-Jones potential and we model the van der Waals contributions as... 

The temperature-dependent second and third virial coefficient describe the increasing two- and three-particle collisions between the gas molecules and their accompanying increase in gas density. The virial coefficients are calculated using a suitable intermolecular por-tential model (usually a 12-6 Lennard-Jones Potential) from rudimentary statistical thermodynamics. 

In the present work, we performed MC simulations at different operation conditions, constant fluid density and constant pressure, for calculating K2 to investigate the distribution behavior in the supercritical region. We selected C02, benzene, and graphitic slitpore as a model system by adopting the Lennard - Jones (LJ) potential function for intermolecular interactions. 

The details of the pair potential used in the simulations are given in Table I. This consists of an -trans model of the sec-butyl chloride molecule with six moieties. The intermolecular pair potential is then built up with 36 site-site terms per molecular pair. Each site-site term is compost of two parts Lennard-Jones and charge-charge. In this way, chiral discrimination is built in to the potential in a natural way. The phase-space average R-R (or S-S) potential is different from the equivalent in R-S interactions. The algorithm transforms this into dynamical time-correlation functions. 

The intermolecular interactions between two molecules and fluid-wall interactions in SWNTs were given by a 12-6 Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential. Methane was modeled as a spherical LJ molecule and ethane as two LJ sites with the unified methyl group. The interactions were cut at 2.286nm which corresponding to 5 times the methane a parameter. 

Within the model represented by equations (1) and (2), the intermolecular potential energy function is fully determined by the set of -1 charges and n n +1) Lennard-Jones parameters, where n is the number of different types of atoms in the system. For example, the water intermolecular potential in this approach requires 5 different parameters. In practice, this is modified in two ways First, one may wish to add additional point charges to provide more flexibility in modeling the molecular charge distribution. In this case, the locations of the point charges are not necessarily identified with the equilibrium positions of the atoms. Second, a major simplification can be achieved if one uses the following approximation[13] ... 

Thus, the usual approach to deriving intermolecular potentials from experimental data is to choose a functional form for the model potential, for example, the Lennard-Jones 12-6 potential ... 

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