Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 43, Issue 12, Pages 870-878Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26844
Keywords
bond cleavage; charge transfer; electrons; eReaxFF; molecular dynamics; water
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [390874152, INST40/467-1 FUGG, SPP- 2248]
- state of Baden-Wurttemberg through the HPC project [511]
- Projekt DEAL
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The study modified the eReaxFF method to allow electrons to modify valence energy, improving the description of the reaction path. By adjusting the methodology when electrons are present, the overall accuracy of the force field and the depiction of angles within molecules were enhanced.
Reactive force fields (ReaxFF) are a classical method to describe material properties based on a bond-order formalism, that allows bond dissociation and consequently investigations of reactive systems. Semiclassical treatment of electrons was introduced within ReaxFF simulations, better known as electron reactive force fields (eReaxFF), to explicitly treat electrons as spherical Gaussian waves. In the original version of eReaxFF, the electrons and electron-holes can lead to changes in both the bond energy and the Coulomb energy of the system. In the present study, the method was modified to allow an electron to modify the valence energy, therefore, permitting that the electron's presence modifies the three-body interactions, affecting the angle among three atoms. When a reaction path involving electron transfer is more sensitive to the geometric configuration of the molecules, corrections in the angular structure in the presence of electrons become more relevant; in this case, bond dissociation may not be enough to describe a reaction path. Consequently, the application of the extended eReaxFF method developed in this work should provide an improved description of a reaction path. As a first demonstration this semiclassical force field was parametrized for hydrogen and oxygen interactions, including water and water's ions. With the modified methodology both the overall accuracy of the force field but also the description of the angles within the molecules in presence of electrons could be improved.
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