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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 120, 期 8, 页码 1864-1870出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b09552
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- U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-AC04-94AL8500]
- Sandia's LDRD program
- Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative [SA 12-05/GoMRI-002]
- EPSCoR
- Office Of The Director [1003897] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The role of solute attractive forces on hydrophobic interactions is studied by coordinated development of theory and simulation results for Ar atoms in water. We present a concise derivation of the local molecular field (LMF) theory for the effects of solute attractive forces on hydrophobic interactions, a derivation that clarifies the close relation of LMF theory to the EXP approximation applied to this problem long ago. The simulation results show that change from purely repulsive atomic solute interactions to include realistic attractive interactions diminishes the strength of hydrophobic bonds. For the Ar-Ar rdfs considered pointwise, the numerical results for the effects of solute attractive forces on hydrophobic interactions are opposite in sign and larger in magnitude than predicted by LMF theory. That comparison is discussed from the point of view of quasichemical theory, and it is suggested that the first reason for this difference is the incomplete evaluation within LMF theory of the hydration energy of the Ar pair. With a recent suggestion for the system-size extrapolation of the required correlation function integrals, the Ar-Ar rdfs permit evaluation of osmotic second virial coefficients B-2. Those B-2's also show that incorporation of attractive interactions leads to more positive (repulsive) values. With attractive interactions in play, B-2, can change from positive to negative values with increasing temperatures. This is consistent with the puzzling suggestions of decades ago that B-2 approximate to 0 for intermediate cases of temperature or solute size. In all cases here, B-2 becomes more attractive with increasing temperature.
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