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An Automated and Systematic Transition Structure Explorer in Large Flexible Molecular Systems Based on Combined
Satoshi Maeda1, Koichi Ohno1, Keiji Morokuma1
1Department of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan, and Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8103, Japan.
Abstract:
The global reaction route mapping (GRRM) method enabled an automated and a systematic search for routes of chemical reactions on a potential energy surface based on the anharmonic downward distortion following (ADDF) approach [Chem. Phys. Lett. 2004, 384, 277]. On the other hand, the microiteration technique [Mol. Phys. 2006, 104, 701] has been developed for full optimizations of transition state (TS) structures for reactions/transformations in large flexible molecular systems and successfully used in ONIOM(QM:MM) calculations. In the present paper, combining the GRRM method with the microiteration technique, we developed a microiteration-ADDF (μ-ADDF) method for automated and systematic TS exploration of large flexible molecular systems. We showed that the method works well with two test systems, (H2CO)(H2O)100 and Si6(C12H17)6, in the ONIOM(QM:MM) framework. It is noted that the present μ-ADDF method can be used for pure quantum mechanics (QM) or molecular mechanics (MM) systems (without ONIOM) and has been tested successfully in C6H10O pure QM calculations.
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