Ab Initio Frozen Density Functional Calculations of Proton Transfer Reactions in Solution

1996 ◽  
Vol 100 (38) ◽  
pp. 15444-15449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Wesolowski ◽  
Richard P. Muller ◽  
Arieh Warshel
2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-561
Author(s):  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Xiu Li

The geometrical structures and thermal energies (E), enthalpies (H) and Gibbs free energies (G) of 13 isomers of 5-chlorouracil (5ClU) in the gas and water phases were investigated using the density functional theory (DFT) method at the M06-2X/6-311++g(3df,3pd) level. The isomers of 5ClU can be microhydrated at different molecular target sites. The mono- and dihydrated forms are the most stable in both the gas and water phases, and, because of the intermolecular interactions, the hydrations lead to a degree of change in the stability trend. Two types of isomerizations were considered: the internal H—O bond rotations in which the H atom rotates 180° around the C—O bond and the intramolecular proton-transfer reactions in which an H atom is transferred between an O atom and a neighbouring N atom. The forward and backward energy barriers for isomerizations of nonhydrated 5ClU were calculated. In addition, 16 optimized transition-state structures for water-mediated catalysis on isomerizations of 5ClU were investigated. The forward and backward proton-transfer energy barriers of water-mediated catalysis on isomerizations of 5ClU were obtained. The results indicate that the catalytic effect of two H2O molecules is much greater than that of one H2O molecule in isomerizations of 5ClU.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 3775-3778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domonkos A. Tasi ◽  
Tibor Győri ◽  
Gábor Czakó

We develop the first accurate full-dimensional ab initio PES for the OH− + CH3I SN2 and proton-transfer reactions treating the failure of CCSD(T) at certain geometries.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 3164-3170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balázs Olasz ◽  
István Szabó ◽  
Gábor Czakó

The first analyticalab initiopotential energy surface reveals the dynamics and different mechanisms of the F−+ CH3I reaction.


2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Guo ◽  
Hong Zhang ◽  
Chao-Yang Zhang ◽  
Xin-Lu Cheng ◽  
Hai-Quan Hu

To understand the reaction mechanism involving hydrogen transfers through hydrogen-bond bridge, we carried out both Self-Consistent Charge Density Functional Tight-Binding (SCC-DFTB) calculations of bulk nitromethane and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations of singlet ground state/triplet excited state molecular nitromethane using B3LYP functional. Firstly, we tuned the repulsive parameters of the SCC-DFTB method for nitromethane with dataset calculated from DFT at B3LYP/6-311g level. The molecular dynamics simulations are carried out with tuned parameters to get the dynamical properties of the bulk nitromethane, and the static calculations are intended to give energy profile of the reaction process. These calculations indicate the excitation of nitromethane molecule making the proton transfer reactions possible, and lowering the reaction barrier.


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