Solvation thermodynamics of organic molecules by the molecular integral equation theory: approaching chemical accuracy

EL Ratkova, DS Palmer, MV Fedorov - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The integral equation theory (IET) of molecular liquids has been an active area of academic
research in theoretical and computational physical chemistry for over 40 years because it …

Density depletion and enhanced fluctuations in water near hydrophobic solutes: identifying the underlying physics

MK Coe, R Evans, NB Wilding - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We investigate the origin of the density depletion and enhanced density fluctuations that
occur in water in the vicinity of an extended hydrophobic solute. We argue that both …

Solvation free-energy pressure corrections in the three dimensional reference interaction site model

V Sergiievskyi, G Jeanmairet, M Levesque… - The Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Solvation free energies are efficiently predicted by molecular density functional theory if one
corrects the overpressure introduced by the usual homogeneous reference fluid …

Hydration free energies of molecular ions from theory and simulation

M Misin, MV Fedorov, DS Palmer - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We present a theoretical/computational framework for accurate calculation of hydration free
energies of ionized molecular species. The method is based on a molecular theory, 3D …

Study of a water-graphene capacitor with molecular density functional theory

G Jeanmairet, B Rotenberg, D Borgis… - The Journal of chemical …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Most of the performances of electrochemical devices are governed by molecular processes
taking place at the solution-electrode interfaces, and molecular simulation is the main way to …

Tackling solvent effects by coupling electronic and molecular density functional theory

G Jeanmairet, M Levesque… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Solvation effects can have a tremendous influence on chemical reactions. However, precise
quantum chemistry calculations are most often done either in vacuum neglecting the role of …

Predicting Solvation Free Energies from the Minnesota Solvation Database Using Classical Density Functional Theory Based on the PC-SAFT Equation of State

B Bursik, J Eller, J Gross - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
We critically assess the capabilities of classical density functional theory (DFT) based on the
perturbed-chain statistical associating fluid theory (PC-SAFT) equation of state to predict the …

Role of solvation in drug design as revealed by the statistical mechanics integral equation theory of liquids

N Yoshida - Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2017 - ACS Publications
Recent developments and applications in theoretical methods focusing on drug design and
particularly on the solvent effect in molecular recognition based on the three-dimensional …

Efficient molecular density functional theory using generalized spherical harmonics expansions

L Ding, M Levesque, D Borgis, L Belloni - The Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We show that generalized spherical harmonics are well suited for representing the space
and orientation molecular density in the resolution of the molecular density functional theory …

Hydration free energies and solvation structures with molecular density functional theory in the hypernetted chain approximation

S Luukkonen, M Levesque, L Belloni… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The capability of molecular density functional theory in its lowest, second-order
approximation, equivalent to the hypernetted chain approximation in integral equations, to …