10.1021/jp107557p.s001
Debashree Ghosh
Debashree
Ghosh
Dmytro Kosenkov
Dmytro
Kosenkov
Vitalii Vanovschi
Vitalii
Vanovschi
Christopher F. Williams
Christopher F.
Williams
John M. Herbert
John M.
Herbert
Mark S. Gordon
Mark S.
Gordon
Michael W. Schmidt
Michael W.
Schmidt
Lyudmila V. Slipchenko
Lyudmila V.
Slipchenko
Anna I. Krylov
Anna I.
Krylov
Noncovalent Interactions in Extended Systems Described by the Effective Fragment Potential Method: Theory and Application to Nucleobase Oligomers
American Chemical Society
2010
structure package
DNA strands
Noncovalent Interactions
Effective Fragment
Extended Systems Described
EFP method
Pairwise fragment interactions
interaction energy
dimer binding energies
component
oligomer energy
acid bases
ab initio calculations
Nucleobase OligomersThe implementation
dispersion energy
2010-12-09 00:00:00
Journal contribution
https://acs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Noncovalent_Interactions_in_Extended_Systems_Described_by_the_Effective_Fragment_Potential_Method_Theory_and_Application_to_Nucleobase_Oligomers/2706241
The implementation of the effective fragment potential (EFP) method within the Q-CHEM electronic structure package is presented. The EFP method is used to study noncovalent π−π and hydrogen-bonding interactions in DNA strands. Since EFP is a computationally inexpensive alternative to high-level ab initio calculations, it is possible to go beyond the dimers of nucleic acid bases and to investigate the asymptotic behavior of different components of the total interaction energy. The calculations demonstrated that the dispersion energy is a leading component in π-stacked oligomers of all sizes. Exchange-repulsion energy also plays an important role. The contribution of polarization is small in these systems, whereas the magnitude of electrostatics varies. Pairwise fragment interactions (i.e., the sum of dimer binding energies) were found to be a good approximation for the oligomer energy.