COMPSunday, 10 September 2006

1:00 PM-5:00 PM Moscone Center -- Room 208/210, Oral
General Oral: Quantum Chemistry
Organizer:Jeffry D. Madura
1:00 PMDoes nature use the variational theorem? A comparative study of enzyme active site geometry from crystal structures and quantum mechanics
Jason DeChancie, Fernando Clemente, Hakan Gunaydin, Adam Smith, K. N. Houk, David Baker
1:25 PMEnzyme binding specificity and catalytic mechanisms in both wild-type mAChE and H447I mutant: A combined QM/MM-FE and thermodynamic integration study
Yuhui Cheng, Xiaolin Cheng, J. Andrew McCammon
1:50 PMEfficiency of bimetal-aided phosphodiester bond cleavage in nucleotidyl transfer reactions
Matteo Dal Peraro, Marco De Vivo, Michael L. Klein
2:15 PMThe nature of high energy phosphoryl bonds: An anomeric effect
Jeffrey D. Evanseck, Eliza A. Ruben, Michael S. Chapman
2:40 PMIntermission
2:55 PMSpecific reaction parameterization for the AM1/d Hamiltonian for phosphoryl transfer reactions
Kwangho Nam, Jiali Gao, Darrin M. York
3:20 PMTheory and application of the novel Direct COSMO-RS model (D-COSMO-RS)
Michael Diedenhofen, Andreas Klamt
3:45 PMSolvation effects on the keto-enol tautomerization of malonaldehyde
Mark A. Freitag, Trenton L. Pruden, David R. Moody, James T. Parker, Marcel Fallet
4:10 PMQM/MM methods for large scale biochemical simulations: Implementation in NWChem computational chemistry package
Marat Valiev
4:35 PMQuadratic scaling multireference correlation in polyenes and long molecules with the local density matrix renormalization group
Johannes Hachmann, Wim R. Cardoen, Garnet K-L. Chan

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The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006