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DOI： 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.122503

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DOI： 10.1063/5.0159130

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DOI： https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0158046

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DOI： 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.122503

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DOI： 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.122418

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DOI： 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.122311

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DOI： https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c00343

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DOI： 10.1088/1757-899X/1280/1/012002

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A theoretical method for calculating the thermodynamic properties and phase equilibria of liquid-liquid mixtures using the integral equation theory is proposed. The solvation chemical potentials of the two components are evaluated by the integral equation theory and the isothermal-isobaric variation of the total density with composition is determined to satisfy the Gibbs-Duhem relation. Given the density of a pure component, the method can calculate the densities of the mixture at any composition. Furthermore, it can treat the phase equilibrium without thermodynamic inconsistency with respect to the Gibbs-Duhem relation. This method was combined with the reference interaction-site model integral equation theory and applied to mixtures of water + 1-alcohol by changing the alcohol from methanol to 1-butanol. The destabilization of the mixing Gibbs energy by increasing the hydrophobicity of the alcohol and demixing of the water-butanol mixture were reproduced. However, quantitative agreement with experiments is not satisfactory, and further improvements of the integral equation theory and the molecular models are required.

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DOI： 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00192

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<jats:p>The protonation/deprotonation reaction is one of the most fundamental processes in solutions and biological systems. Compounds with dissociative functional groups change their charge states by protonation/deprotonation. This change not only significantly alters the physical properties of a compound itself, but also has a profound effect on the surrounding molecules. In this paper, we review our recent developments of the methods for predicting the Ka, the equilibrium constant for protonation reactions or acid dissociation reactions. The pKa, which is a logarithm of Ka, is proportional to the reaction Gibbs energy of the protonation reaction, and the reaction free energy can be determined by electronic structure calculations with solvation models. The charge of the compound changes before and after protonation; therefore, the solvent effect plays an important role in determining the reaction Gibbs energy. Here, we review two solvation models: the continuum model, and the integral equation theory of molecular liquids. Furthermore, the reaction Gibbs energy calculations for the protonation reactions require special attention to the handling of dissociated protons. An efficient method for handling the free energy of dissociated protons will also be reviewed.</jats:p>

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Water in the supercritical region of the phase diagram exhibits a markedly different structure and properties from that at ambient conditions, which is useful in controlling chemical reactions. Nonetheless, the experimental, as well as theoretical, characterization of the substance is not easy because the region is next to the critical point. This article reviews the experimental as well as theoretical studies on water in the supercritical region and its properties as a solvent for chemical reactions, as carried out by the authors and based on small-angle X-ray scattering and the statistical mechanics theory of molecular liquids, also known as reference interaction-site model (RISM) theory.

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A computational method to investigate the global conformational change of a protein is proposed by combining the linear response path following (LRPF) method and three-dimensional reference interaction site model (3D-RISM) theory, which is referred to as the LRPF/3D-RISM method. The proposed method makes it possible to efficiently simulate protein conformational changes caused by either solutions of varying concentrations or the presence of cosolvent species by taking advantage of the LRPF and 3D-RISM. The proposed method is applied to the urea-induced denaturation of ubiquitin. The LRPF/3D-RISM trajectories successfully simulate the early stage of the denaturation process within the simulation time of 300 ns, whereas no significant structural change is observed even in the 1 mu s standard MD simulation. The obtained LRPF/3D-RISM trajectories reproduce the mechanism of the urea denaturation of ubiquitin reported in previous studies, and demonstrate the high efficiency of the method.

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DOI： 10.3390/molecules26020271

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Event date： 2023.7

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Venue：Patthaya   Country：Thailand  

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Venue：the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE), Quy Nhon   Country：Viet Nam