Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 23, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules23112927
Keywords
hydration; non-polar solute; implicit solvation; pi-water hydrogen bonding; coupled QM/MM
Funding
- Global Frontier RD Program [2013M3A6B1078884]
- Nanomaterial Technology Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) [2016M3A7B4025414]
- Korea government (MSIT) [NRF-2017R1A5A1015365]
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The precise description of solute-water interactions is essential to understand the chemo-physical nature in hydration processes. Such a hydration thermodynamics for various solutes has been explored by means of explicit or implicit solvation methods. Using the Poisson-Boltzmann solvation model, the implicit models are well designed to reasonably predict the hydration free energies of polar solutes. The implicit model, however, is known to have shortcomings in estimating those for non-polar aromatic compounds. To investigate a cause of error, we employed a novel systematic framework of quantum-mechanical/molecular-mechanical (QM/MM) coupling protocol in explicit solvation manner, termed DFT-CES, based on the grid-based mean-field treatment. With the aid of DFT-CES, we delved into multiple energy parts, thereby comparing DFT-CES and PB models component-by-component. By applying the modified PB model to estimate the hydration free energies of non-polar solutes, we find a possibility to improve the predictability of PB models. We expect that this study could shed light on providing an accurate route to study the hydration thermodynamics for various solute compounds.
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