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JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 25, Issue 10, Pages 1227-1233Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.20048
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solvent effcct; Menshutkin reaction; QM/MM; ASEP/MD
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A new method for calculating saddle points of reactions in Solution is presented. The main characteristics of the method are: (1) the solute-solvent system is described by the averaged solvent electrostatic potential/molecular dynamics method (ASEP/MD). This is a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics method (QM/MM) that makes use of the mean field approximation (NIFA) and that permits one to simultaneously optimize the electronic structure and geometry of the Solute molecule and the solvent structure around it. (2) The transition state is located by the joint use of the free-energy gradient method and the mean field approximation. An application to the study of the Menshutkin reaction between NH3 and CH3Cl in aqueous solution is discussed. The accuracy and usefulness of the proposed method is checked through comparison with other methods. (C) 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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