Virtual Sites for Organohalogens

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Christopher Rowley
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Virtual Sites for Organohalogens

Post by Christopher Rowley » Thu Jun 12, 2014 12:24 pm

Hi,

I'm interested in using openmm to simulate organohalogen molecules where there is a virtual site attached to the halogen, collinear to the C-X bond (J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2012, 8 (10), pp 3895–3901 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ct300180w). I'm not sure if any of the VirtualSite types currently support this. Could something like a TwoParticleAverageSite with a negative weight on the halogen atom work?

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Chris
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Peter Eastman
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Re: Virtual Sites for Organohalogens

Post by Peter Eastman » Thu Jun 12, 2014 1:00 pm

A negative weight is fine, so you can definitely use that to position the site in line with the two atoms. Is the distance between the atoms constrained? If not, the distance to the virtual site will vary.

OpenMM 6.1 will also add an new, very flexible type of virtual site called LocalCoordinatesSite. See https://github.com/SimTk/openmm/blob/ma ... tualSite.h.

Peter
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