HYDRATION FREE-ENERGY OF WATER

被引:80
作者
HUMMER, G [1 ]
PRATT, LR [1 ]
GARCIA, AE [1 ]
机构
[1] LOS ALAMOS NATL LAB, THEORET CHEM & MOLEC PHYS GRP T12, LOS ALAMOS, NM 87545 USA
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D O I
10.1021/j100038a062
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We study the chemical potential of water as a function of charge based on perturbation theory. By calculating the electrostatic-energy fluctuations of two states (fully charged and uncharged), we are able to determine accurate values for the dependence of the chemical potential on charge. We find identical results for the chemical-potential difference of fully charged and uncharged water from overlapping-histogram and acceptance-ratio methods and by smoothly connecting the curves of direct exponential averages. Our results agree with those of Rick and Berne (J. Am. Chem. Sec. 1994, 116, 3949) with respect to both the chemical-potential difference and its dependence on the charge coupling parameter. We observe significant deviations from simple Gaussian-fluctuation statistics. The dependence on the coupling parameter is not quadratic, as would be inferred from linear continuum models of electrostatics.
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页码:14188 / 14194
页数:7
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