Computational approach to molecular catalysis by 3d transition metals: challenges and opportunities

KD Vogiatzis, MV Polynski, JK Kirkland… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Computational chemistry provides a versatile toolbox for studying mechanistic details of
catalytic reactions and holds promise to deliver practical strategies to enable the rational in …

Entropy-enthalpy compensation: role and ramifications in biomolecular ligand recognition and design

JD Chodera, DL Mobley - Annual review of biophysics, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Recent calorimetric studies of interactions between small molecules and biomolecular
targets have generated renewed interest in the phenomenon of entropy-enthalpy …

Role of molecular dynamics and related methods in drug discovery

M De Vivo, M Masetti, G Bottegoni… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) and related methods are close to becoming routine computational
tools for drug discovery. Their main advantage is in explicitly treating structural flexibility and …

Practical aspects of free-energy calculations: a review

N Hansen, WF Van Gunsteren - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Free-energy calculations in the framework of classical molecular dynamics simulations are
nowadays used in a wide range of research areas including solvation thermodynamics …

Dynamic docking: a paradigm shift in computational drug discovery

D Gioia, M Bertazzo, M Recanatini, M Masetti, A Cavalli - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking is the methodology of choice for studying in silico protein-ligand binding
and for prioritizing compounds to discover new lead candidates. Traditional docking …

Molecular recognition and ligand association

R Baron, JA McCammon - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2013 - annualreviews.org
We review recent developments in our understanding of molecular recognition and ligand
association, focusing on two major viewpoints:(a) studies that highlight new physical insight …

Frontiers in free‐energy calculations of biological systems

C Chipot - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In a matter of three decades, free‐energy calculations have emerged as an indispensable
tool to tackle deep biological questions that experiment alone has left unresolved. In spite of …

Statistical convergence of equilibrium properties in simulations of molecular solutes embedded in lipid bilayers

C Neale, WFD Bennett, DP Tieleman… - Journal of Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
In recent years, atomistic molecular simulations have become a method of choice for
studying the interaction of small molecules, peptides, and proteins with biological …

What makes for a bad catalytic cycle? A theoretical study on the Suzuki− Miyaura reaction within the energetic span model

S Kozuch, JML Martin - ACS Catalysis, 2011 - ACS Publications
The Suzuki− Miyaura cross-coupling reaction using PMe3, PPh3, and P t Bu3 as ligands
was studied theoretically with accurate density functional theory (DFT) methods and the …

Interaction of proteins with polyelectrolytes: Comparison of theory to experiment

X Xu, S Angioletti-Uberti, Y Lu, J Dzubiella, M Ballauff - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
We discuss recent investigations of the interaction of polyelectrolytes with proteins. In
particular, we review our recent studies on the interaction of simple proteins such as human …