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Molecular Modeling: Latest Advances and Applications

A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biophysics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2025 | Viewed by 998

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Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in computational power, algorithmic efficiency, and interdisciplinary collaborations have led to significant breakthroughs in molecular modeling. The goal of this Special Issue is to highlight the state-of-the-art research in molecular modeling and its applications in a variety of fields, including new material development and pharmaceuticals. The contributions in this Special Issue highlight the critical role that molecular modeling plays in deepening our understanding of complex molecular systems by examining fresh approaches, theoretical discoveries, and practical applications of this field. This Special Issue offers an overview of current trends, difficulties, and future directions in molecular modeling, offering insightful viewpoints for researchers, practitioners, and educators alike.

Dr. Maria Alexandra Mernea
Prof. Dr. Dan Mihailescu
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Keywords

  • molecular modeling
  • computational chemistry
  • drug design
  • material science
  • biomolecular interactions
  • algorithmic advances
  • theoretical chemistry
  • simulation techniques
  • predictive modeling
  • interdisciplinary applications

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Theoretical Investigation of Electric Polarizability in Porphyrin–Zinc and Porphyrin–Zinc–Thiazole Complexes Using Small Property-Oriented Basis Sets
by Arkadiusz Kuziemski, Krzysztof Z. Łączkowski and Angelika Baranowska-Łączkowska
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25(20), 11044; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms252011044 - 14 Oct 2024
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Porphyrin complexes are of great importance due to their possible applications as sensors, solar cells and photocatalysts, as well as their ability to bind additional ligands. A valuable source of knowledge on their nature is their electric properties, which can be evaluated employing [...] Read more.
Porphyrin complexes are of great importance due to their possible applications as sensors, solar cells and photocatalysts, as well as their ability to bind additional ligands. A valuable source of knowledge on their nature is their electric properties, which can be evaluated employing density functional theory (DFT) methods, supporting the experimental research. The present work aims at the application of small property-oriented basis sets in calculation of electric properties in transition metals, their oxides and test coordination complexes. Firstly, the existing polarized ZPol basis set for the first-row transition metals is modified in order to improve atomic polarizability results. For this purpose, optimization of the f-type polarization function exponent is carried out with respect to the value of average atomic polarizability of investigated metals. Next, both the original and the modified basis sets are employed in finite field CCSD(T) calculation of transition metal oxides’ dipole moments, as well as DFT calculation of polarizabilities in porphyrin–zinc and porphyrin–zinc–thiazole complexes. The obtained results show that the ZPol and ZPol-A basis sets can be successfully employed in the calculation of linear electric properties in large systems. The optimization procedure used in the present work can be employed for other source basis sets and elements, leading to new efficient polarized basis sets. Full article
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