Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

A study of different approaches to the electrostatic interaction in force field methods for organic crystals

Show simple item record

dc.creator Leusen, Frank J.J.
dc.creator Brodersen, S.
dc.creator Engel, G.E.
dc.creator Wilke, S.
dc.date 2009-12-14T08:47:06Z
dc.date 2009-12-14T08:47:06Z
dc.date 2003
dc.identifier Leusen, F.J.J., Brodersen, S., Engel, G.E. and Wilke, S. (2003). A study of different approaches to the electrostatic interaction in force field methods for organic crystals. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Vol. 5, No. 21, pp. 4923-4931.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4077
dc.description No
dc.description We investigated five different methods for evaluating the electrostatic interaction between atoms in force field calculations on organic solids. Atomic charges and multipoles were obtained by fitting them to the molecular electrostatic potential, calculated in vacuum with an ab initio quantum mechanical method. Multipole moments were derived using three schemes, differing in the order in which the monopoles, dipoles and quadrupoles were fitted. For comparison, Gasteiger charges were also calculated. Using these electrostatic models, the lattice parameters and the molecular geometry of 48 organic crystals were optimised with the DREIDING force field. During the optimisation, the atomic multipoles were rotated with their local environment to account for molecular flexibility. For comparative reasons, rigid-body optimisations were performed on a subset of structures. The results were analysed in terms of structural parameters of the lattice and the molecules, and, for the ten polymorphic systems present in the test set, in terms of relative stability. On average, the multipole methods were not superior to the point charge methods for the full optimisation. For rigid molecules, however, the multipole models gave a substantial improvement in lattice parameters. No evidence was found that parameters for van der Waals energies need to be refitted for a specific electrostatic model. Energy differences between polymorphs were less than 5 kcal mol¿1 in eight out of ten cases, independent of the electrostatic model used. The results show that our use of distributed multipoles to describe the intra-molecular as well as inter-molecular electrostatic interactions does lead to an improvement in accuracy for rigid molecules, but not for flexible molecules. The investigation shows that accurate descriptions of the intra-molecular as well as the inter-molecular energies are crucial for the successful optimisation of crystal structures of organic solids.
dc.language en
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b306396h
dc.subject Electrostatic Interaction
dc.subject Intermolecular Interaction
dc.subject Organic Compounds
dc.subject Molecular Crystals
dc.subject Ab Initio Calculations
dc.subject Theoratical Study
dc.title A study of different approaches to the electrostatic interaction in force field methods for organic crystals
dc.type Article
dc.type No full-text available in the repository


Files in this item

Files Size Format View

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search DSpace


Advanced Search

Browse