Molecular simulations of thermodynamic properties for the system α-cyclodextrin/alcohol in aqueous solution

Free-energy calculations based on molecular simulations provide access to a wide range of thermodynamic properties such as the solubility and partitioning of a molecule in and between various phases. It is demonstrated how molecular dynamics free-energy simulations may be used to obtain the solubilities of primary alcohols and n-alkanes in water and binding affinities of primary alcohols to α-cyclodextrin. The equivalence of two distinct routes to calculate binding free energies is shown leading to the conclusion that host-guest binding affinities may be used to probe the underlying molecular force field.

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force field

free energy

host-guest complex

molecular dynamics

statistical mechanics

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530: Physik

620: Ingenieurwissenschaften

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Molecular simulations of thermodynamic properties for the system α-cyclodextrin/alcohol in aqueous solution