[gmx-users] Enthalpy of vaporization

[Eric Jakobsson]

A possibly useful reference for vdw parameters for unit carbon atoms in 
hydrocarbons is:

Chiu, S. W., Clark, M. M., Jakobsson, E., Subramaniam, S., and H. L. Scott. 
1999b. Optimizations of hydrocarbon chain interaction parameters: 
Application to the simulation of fluid phase lipid bilayers.  J. Phys. 
Chem.  B 103:6323-6327

The main point is that in order to get the parameters right, you need to 
simulate the density at constant pressure for plymers with the same 
building blocks, but different numbers of them.  In that case at least, the 
same parameters that worked for the density also made the heat of 
vaporization about right.

Eric

At 07:20 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>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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