Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Accurate determination of solvation free energies of neutral organic compounds from first principles

  • Leonid Pereyaslavets,
  • Ganesh Kamath,
  • Oleg Butin,
  • Alexey Illarionov,
  • Michael Olevanov,
  • Igor Kurnikov,
  • Serzhan Sakipov,
  • Igor Leontyev,
  • Ekaterina Voronina,
  • Tyler Gannon,
  • Grzegorz Nawrocki,
  • Mikhail Darkhovskiy,
  • Ilya Ivahnenko,
  • Alexander Kostikov,
  • Jessica Scaranto,
  • Maria G. Kurnikova,
  • Suvo Banik,
  • Henry Chan,
  • Michael G. Sternberg,
  • Subramanian K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan,
  • Brad Crawford,
  • Jeffrey Potoff,
  • Michael Levitt,
  • Roger D. Kornberg,
  • Boris Fain

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28041-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Theoretical estimations of solvation free energy by continuum solvation models are generally not accurate. Here the authors report a polarizable force field fitted entirely to first-principles calculations for the estimation of free energy of solvation of arbitrary molecules.