[gmx-users] Enthalpy of vaporization

[David van der Spoel]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Pedro Alexandre Lapido Loureiro wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I am doing a parametrization of small alkane with halogen atoms.
>When the density is good, the DHvap is not (6 kcal/mol - experimental and 11 
>kcal/mol - my simulation) and vice versa.
>For the calculation, I am using: DHvap = RT - Einter(liquid state).
>To what extent should I expect to reproduce the experimental DHvap value? 
Better than 6, within 2 kJ/mole, but not for all possible halogenated 
compounds. Can you be more specific? Is this within the OPLS (all-atom) 
force field?

Gromacs does have specific options for parameterizing.

>Regards,
>
>Pedro.
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>Pedro Alexandre Lapido Loureiro
>Laboratório de Física Biológica
>Instituto de Biofísica
>UFRJ
>Brasil 
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