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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages 2528-2538Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct2001864
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Twenty-two reaction schemes have been tested, within the duster-continuum model including up to seven explicit water molecules. They have been used in conjunction with nine different methods, within the density functional theory and with second-order Moller-Plesset. The quality of the pK(a) predictions was found to be strongly dependent on the chosen scheme, while only moderately influenced by the method of calculation. We recommend the E1 reaction scheme [HA + OH- (3H(2)O) <-> A(-) (H2O) + 3H(2)O], since it yields mean unsigned errors (MUE) lower than 1 unit of pK(a) for most of the tested functionals. The best pK(a) values obtained from this reaction scheme are those involving calculations with PBE0 (MUE = 0.77), TPSS (MUE = 0.82), BHandHLYP (MUE = 0.82), and B3LYP (MUE = 0.86) functionals. This scheme has the additional advantage, compared to the proton exchange method, which also gives very small values of MUE, of being experiment independent. It should be kept in mind, however, that these recommendations are valid within the cluster-continuum model, using the polarizable continuum model in conjunction with the united atom Hartree-Fock cavity and the strategy based on thermodynamic cycles. Changes in any of these aspects of the used methodology may lead to different outcomes.
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