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Stephanie R Hare^1,2, Lars A Bratholm^1,2, David R Glowacki^1,3

¹University of Bristol School of Chemistry , Cantock's Close , Bristol , UK BS8 1TS.

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Area of Science:

Computational Chemistry
Molecular Dynamics
Chemical Physics

Background:

Chemical transformations involve complex molecular motions with many degrees of freedom.
Visualizing these motions requires dimensionality reduction to focus on key atomic movements.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and present a method using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for analyzing molecular geometries.
To introduce PathReducer software for visualizing and analyzing reduced-dimensional molecular motion spaces.
To compare different molecular representations for dimensionality reduction.

Main Methods:

Employed Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on molecular geometry data (reaction pathways, molecular dynamics trajectories).
Developed PathReducer software to determine and visualize reduced dimensional spaces.
Investigated aligned Cartesian coordinates and interatomic distance matrices for molecular representation.

Main Results:

Interatomic distance matrices proved superior in capturing non-linear motions within fewer dimensions compared to Cartesian coordinates.
PathReducer successfully projected molecular dynamics trajectories into reduced dimensional spaces.
Visualizations revealed discrepancies between dynamic paths and minimum energy pathways.

Conclusions:

PathReducer provides an effective tool for visualizing and analyzing complex molecular motions.
Interatomic distance matrices offer advantages for dimensionality reduction of non-linear molecular dynamics.
The method facilitates qualitative assessment of reaction pathways and molecular dynamics behavior.