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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 116, Issue 22, Pages 6250-6260Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp210409c
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- PRIN Project [200875WHMR]
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The DFTB and DFT methods are applied to the study of different forms of the [Cu(HGGG)(Py)] complex in water, with the aim of identifying the most stable isomer. The DFTB calculations were possible thanks to a careful parametrization of the atom-atom repulsive energy terms for Cu-H, Cu-C, Cu-N, and Cu-O. The speciation process is carried out by computing different DFTB-steered molecular dynamics (SMD) trajectories, each of which ends in a well-defined different form. The last frame of each trajectory is subjected to geometry optimization at both DFTB and DFT levels, leading to a different isomer. From the corresponding energy values, a rank of relative stability of the isomers can be established. The computational protocol developed here is of general applicability to other metal-peptide systems and represents a new powerful tool for the study of speciation of metal-containing systems in water solution, particularly useful when the full characterization of the compound cannot be carried out on the basis of experimental results only.
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