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On the estimation of the strength of supramolecular complexes of fullerenes
Author(s) -
Denis Pablo A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.25670
Subject(s) - supramolecular chemistry , fullerene , affinities , gas phase , binding affinities , work (physics) , density functional theory , phase (matter) , chemistry , quantum chemistry , binding energy , chemical physics , thermodynamics , computational chemistry , molecule , receptor , physics , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , biochemistry
The accurate estimation of the free energy changes in solution for supramolecular complexes is one of the most important challenges for quantum chemistry in this century. In general, there is a good correlation between the association constants determined experimentally and the gas phase binding energies calculated using the most popular density functional methods. However, when the receptors adopt very different structures in the gas and condensed phase, this approach does not work, leading to unreliable predictions. We discuss this problem in detail using three popular fullerene receptors: Aida's dimeric porphyrins, buckycatchers I, and II. We found that it is possible to obtain a reliable order of affinities using gas phase binding energies when a special attention is put on analyzing the structure adopted by the receptor in the gas and condensed phases.