Hydration of Superoxide Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Jian Shen, Chung F. Wong, Andrew J. McCammon

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Abstract

<div class="line" id="line-13"> <span style='color: rgb(28, 29, 30); font-family: "Open Sans", icomoon, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'> Molecular dynamics was used to study the hydration of superoxide (O </span> <img src="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/86bdbeab-3c83-4291-9710-fac1c8824e08/tex2gif-stack-1.gif"/> <span style='color: rgb(28, 29, 30); font-family: "Open Sans", icomoon, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'> ). The Helmholtz free energy of hydration of O </span> <img src="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/a956f36b-3f8c-41c2-84f3-e9037618f1af/tex2gif-stack-2.gif"/> <span style='color: rgb(28, 29, 30); font-family: "Open Sans", icomoon, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'> &nbsp;was estimated by the thermodynamic integration method. The diffusion of O </span> <img src="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/182f0971-f9c5-417b-aefe-2eac69857871/tex2gif-stack-3.gif"/> <span style='color: rgb(28, 29, 30); font-family: "Open Sans", icomoon, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'> &nbsp;and the water structure around O </span> <img src="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/0fce1b3a-36e2-495d-b963-1a1240b683eb/tex2gif-stack-4.gif"/> <span style='color: rgb(28, 29, 30); font-family: "Open Sans", icomoon, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'> &nbsp;were also studied. Two water models were used in the calculations and the results were compared to experiments. </span></div>
Original languageAmerican English
JournalJournal of Computational Chemistry
Volume11
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 1990
Externally publishedYes

Disciplines

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry

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