A systematic searching approach for an atomic charge set through molecular dynamics simulations is introduced to calculate a reasonable sialic acid carbohydrate conformation with respect to the experimentally observed structures. The present molecular dynamics simulation study demonstrated that B3LYP/6-31G is the most suitable basis set for the sialic acid disaccharides, attaining good agreement with experimental data.
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