A Unified AMBER-Compatible Molecular Mechanics Force Field for Thiolate-Protected Gold Nanoclusters

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• 作者：Emmi Pohjolainen ; Xi Chen ; Sami Malola ; Gerrit Groenhof ; Hannu Häkkinen
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 8, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：12
• 期：3
• 页码：1342-1350
• 全文大小：634K
• ISSN：1549-9626

文摘

We present transferable AMBER-compatible force field parameters for thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters. Five different sized clusters containing both organo-soluble and water-soluble thiolate ligands served as test systems in MD simulations, and parameters were validated against DFT and experimental results. The cluster geometries remain intact during the MD simulations in various solvents, and structural fluctuations and energetics showed agreement with DFT calculations. Experimental diffusion coefficients and crystal structures were also reproduced with sufficient accuracy. The presented parameter set contains the minimum number of cluster-specific parameters enabling the use of these parameters for several different gold nanoclusters. The parameterization of ligands can also be extended to different types of ligands.