Quantum chemistry calculations for metabolomics: Focus review

RM Borges, SM Colby, S Das, AS Edison… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A primary goal of metabolomics studies is to fully characterize the small-molecule
composition of complex biological and environmental samples. However, despite advances …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum chemical package Jaguar: A survey of recent developments and unique features

Y Cao, T Balduf, MD Beachy, MC Bennett… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This paper is dedicated to the quantum chemical package Jaguar, which is commercial
software developed and distributed by Schrödinger, Inc. We discuss Jaguar's scientific …

Transferable neural network potential energy surfaces for closed-shell organic molecules: Extension to ions

LD Jacobson, JM Stevenson… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Transferable high dimensional neural network potentials (HDNNPs) have shown great
promise as an avenue to increase the accuracy and domain of applicability of existing …

[HTML][HTML] MF-SuP-pKa: Multi-fidelity modeling with subgraph pooling mechanism for pKa prediction

J Wu, Y Wan, Z Wu, S Zhang, D Cao, CY Hsieh… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2023 - Elsevier
Acid-base dissociation constant (pK a) is a key physicochemical parameter in chemical
science, especially in organic synthesis and drug discovery. Current methodologies for pK a …

Understanding of protomers/deprotomers by combining mass spectrometry and computation

D Fu, SG Habtegabir, H Wang, S Feng… - Analytical and Bioanalytical …, 2023 - Springer
Multifunctional compounds may form different prototropic isomers under different conditions,
which are known as protomers/deprotomers. In biological systems, these …

Quantum simulation of preferred tautomeric state prediction

Y Shee, TL Yeh, JY Hsiao, A Yang, YC Lin… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
Prediction of tautomers plays an essential role in computer-aided drug discovery. However,
it remains a challenging task nowadays to accurately predict the canonical tautomeric form …

[HTML][HTML] Towards understanding of stepwise acid-base dissociation in systems inclined to tautomerism: Nitro derivatives of fluorescein in dimethyl sulfoxide

NO Mchedlov-Petrossyan, TA Cheipesh… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the dissociation of polyprotic acids in solution is important for many branches
of chemistry and related sciences. A most important and at the same time knotty problem is …

Comment on the Definition and Labeling of pK50

MA Watson, RC Johnston… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We propose a more rigorous definition for the recently introduced concept of p K 50. The
value of p K 50 should be associated not with a “functional group”, as originally postulated …

Pattern-free generation and quantum mechanical scoring of ring-chain tautomers

DS Levine, MA Watson, LD Jacobson… - Journal of Computer …, 2021 - Springer
In contrast to the computational generation of conventional tautomers, the analogous
operation that would produce ring-chain tautomers is rarely available in cheminformatics …

Aqueous pKa prediction for tautomerizable compounds using equilibrium bond lengths

BA Caine, M Bronzato, T Fraser, N Kidley… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
The accurate prediction of aqueous pKa values for tautomerizable compounds is a
formidable task, even for the most established in silico tools. Empirical approaches often fall …