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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Assessing Configurational Sampling in the Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Calculation of Temoporfin Absorption Spectrum and Triplet Density of States.

Martina De Vetta, Omar Baig, Dorika Steen, Juan J Nogueira, Leticia González

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Martina De VettaInstitute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria. martina.de.vetta@univie.ac.at.
Omar BaigInstitute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria. a01200376@unet.univie.ac.at.
Dorika SteenBiolitec Research GmbH, Otto-Schott-Str. 15, 07745 Jena, Germany. Dorika.Steen@biolitec.com.
Juan J NogueiraInstitute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria. juanjose.nogueiraperez@anu.edu.au.
Leticia GonzálezInstitute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria. leticia.gonzalez@univie.ac.at.ORCID 0000-0001-5112-794X
University of Vienna · ATSchott (Germany) · DE

Funding

Horizon 2020 TCCM-ITN-EJD-642294
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The absorption properties of Temoporfin, a second-generation photosensitizer employed in photodynamic therapy, are calculated with an electrostatic-embedding quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) scheme in methanol. The suitability of several ensembles of geometries generated by different sampling techniques, namely classical-molecular-dynamics (MD) and QM/MM-MD thermal sampling, Wigner quantum sampling and a hybrid protocol, which combines the thermal and quantum approaches, is assessed. It is found that a QM description of the chromophore during the sampling is needed in order to achieve a good agreement with respect to the experimental spectrum. Such a good agreement is obtained with both QM/MM-MD and Wigner samplings, demonstrating that a proper description of the anharmonic motions of the chromophore is not relevant in the computation of the absorption properties. In addition, it is also found that solvent organization is a rather fast process and a long sampling is not required. Finally, it is also demonstrated that the same exchange-correlation functional should be employed in the sampling and in the computation of the excited states properties to avoid unphysical triplet states with relative energies close or below 0 eV.

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Quantum TheorySpectrum AnalysisMesoporphyrinsMolecular Dynamics SimulationMesoporphyrinstemoporfinabsorption propertiesconfigurational samplingQM/MMTemoporfin

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PMID30424014
PMCPMC6278509
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