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Sławomir A Bojarowski1, Prashant Kumar1, Claudia M Wandtke2
1Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Department of Chemistry , University of Warsaw , ul. Żwirki i Wigury 101 , 02-089 Warszawa , Poland.
Abstract:
Our new model of electron density augmented by point charges (aug-PROmol) provides an estimation of electrostatic interaction energies including penetration effects ( ChemPhysChem 2016, 17, 2455-2460). In this paper we prove that it can be applied using sources of point charges other than those from direct restrained fitting to electrostatic potential (RESP). We used a newly established databank of tabulated invariom point charges and a widely known semiempirical method. Both sources perform equivalently to the basic aug-PROmol method as well as to reference energies at the DFT-SAPT/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory. This is possible due to the universal character of the penetration model included in the aug-PROmol. Aug-PROmol may become a basis for development of new nonbonded terms in force fields or a high success rate scoring function.
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