Multiscale studies on ionic liquids

K Dong, X Liu, H Dong, X Zhang, S Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) offer a wide range of promising applications because of their much
enhanced properties. However, further development of such materials depends on the …

London dispersion in molecular chemistry—reconsidering steric effects

JP Wagner, PR Schreiner - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
London dispersion, which constitutes the attractive part of the famous van der Waals
potential, has long been underappreciated in molecular chemistry as an important element …

[HTML][HTML] TRAVIS—A free analyzer for trajectories from molecular simulation

M Brehm, M Thomas, S Gehrke… - The Journal of chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
TRAVIS (“Trajectory Analyzer and Visualizer”) is a program package for post-processing and
analyzing trajectories from molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations, mostly …

Revisiting OPLS force field parameters for ionic liquid simulations

B Doherty, X Zhong, S Gathiaka, B Li… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Our OPLS-2009IL force field parameters (J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2009, 5, 1038–1050)
were originally developed and tested on 68 unique ionic liquids featuring the 1-alkyl-3 …

Computing vibrational spectra from ab initio molecular dynamics

M Thomas, M Brehm, R Fligg, P Vöhringer… - Physical Chemistry …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We review several methods for the calculation of vibrational spectra from ab initio molecular
dynamics (AIMD) simulations and we present a new implementation in the trajectory …

Quantum chemical methods for the prediction of energetic, physical, and spectroscopic properties of ionic liquids

EI Izgorodina, ZL Seeger, DLA Scarborough… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The accurate prediction of physicochemical properties of condensed systems is a
longstanding goal of theoretical (quantum) chemistry. Ionic liquids comprising entirely of …

Force fields for studying the structure and dynamics of ionic liquids: a critical review of recent developments

F Dommert, K Wendler, R Berger, L Delle Site… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Classical molecular dynamics simulations are a valuable tool to study the mechanisms that
dominate the properties of ionic liquids (ILs) on the atomistic and molecular level. However …

Competitive pi interactions and hydrogen bonding within imidazolium ionic liquids

RP Matthews, T Welton, PA Hunt - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper we have explored the structural and energetic landscape of potential π+–π+
stacked motifs, hydrogen-bonding arrangements and anion–π+ interactions for gas-phase …

Ion pairing in ionic liquids

B Kirchner, F Malberg, DS Firaha… - Journal of Physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In the present article we briefly review the extensive discussion in literature about the
presence or absence of ion pair-like aggregates in ionic liquids. While some experimental …

Simulations of room temperature ionic liquids: from polarizable to coarse-grained force fields

M Salanne - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are solvent with unusual properties, which are
difficult to characterize experimentally because of their intrinsic complexity (large number of …