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Development of an AMBER-compatible Transferable Force Field for Poly(ethylene Glycol) Ethers (Glymes)

Development of an AMBER-compatible Transferable Force Field for Poly(ethylene Glycol) Ethers (Glymes)

Nathalia S V Barbosa, Yong Zhang, Eduardo R A Lima, Frederico W Tavares, Edward J Maginn

J Mol Model. 2017 Jun;23(6):194.

PMID: 28550376

Abstract:

An all-atom force field consistent with the general AMBER force field (GAFF) format for poly(ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether (diglyme or G2) was developed by fitting to experimental liquid densities and dielectric constants. Not surprisingly, the new force field gives excellent agreement with experimental liquid phase densities and dielectric constants over a wide temperature range. Other dynamic and thermodynamic properties of liquid G2 such as its self-diffusion coefficient, shear viscosity, and vaporization enthalpy were also calculated and compared to experimental data. For all of the properties studied, the performance of the proposed new force field is better than that of the standard GAFF force field. The force field parameters were transferred to model two other poly(ethylene glycol) ethers: monoglyme (G1) and tetraglyme (G4). The predictive ability of the modified force field for G1 and G4 was significantly better than that of the original GAFF force field. The proposed force field provides an alternative option for the simulation of mixtures containing glymes using GAFF-compatible force fields, particularly for electrochemical applications. The accuracy of a previously published force field based on the OPLS-AA format and the accuracies of two modified versions of that force field were also examined for G1, G2, and G4. It was found that the original OPLS-AA force field is superior to the modified versions of it, and that it has a similar accuracy to the proposed new GAFF-compatible force field. Graphical abstract Transferability of an AMBER-compatible force field parameterized for G2 to other glymes.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP24991557	Poly(ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether		24991-55-7	Price

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