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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 115, Issue 46, Pages 13473-13488Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp206665w
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- Slovenian-Hungarian travel grant [SI-6/2009]
- Hungarian National Basic Science Fund (OTKA) [83529]
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We present a detailed and comprehensive structural study of molecular models of liquid methanol, ethanol, and 1-propanol that originate from a series of reverse Monte Carlo (RMC), molecular dynamics (MD), and united-atom Monte Carlo (UA:MC) simulations. We compare several modeling approaches: RMC simulations that employ experimental neutron and X-ray diffraction data as sole constraints, RMC with diffraction data complemented with partial radial distribution functions (PRDFs) from MD or UA:MC, and conventional MD and UA:MC simulations. The assessment is done in view of the structural parameters of the hydrogen bond and resulting morphological characteristics of molecular aggregates. To achieve these tasks, a computer program for structural analysis of molecular configurations together with the appropriate aggregate classification scheme has been developed. We have analyzed the morphology of clusters, their probability, and size distributions. Any cyclic structures that appeared in the configurations were extracted and characterized in the same manner. We found that MD and UA:MC simulations resulted in configurations with bulkier, more threadlike aggregates that were not entirely consistent with the experimental evidence from diffraction experiments. A combination of neutron and X-ray diffraction data with PRDFs from MD simulations, simultaneously applied as constraints in the RMC procedure, proved to be a modeling approach with the most conclusive results.
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