We propose a multistructural microiteration (MSM) method for geometry optimization and reaction path calculation in large systems. MSM is a simple extension of the geometrical microiteration technique. In conventional microiteration, the structure of the non-reaction-center (surrounding) part is optimized by fixing atoms in the reaction-center part before displacements of the reaction-center atoms. In this method, the surrounding part is described as the weighted sum of multiple surrounding structures that are independently optimized. Then, geometric displacements of the reaction-center atoms are performed in the mean field generated by the weighted sum of the surrounding parts. MSM was combined with the QM/MM-ONIOM method and applied to chemical reactions in aqueous solution or enzyme. In all three cases, MSM gave lower reaction energy profiles than the QM/MM-ONIOM-microiteration method over the entire reaction paths with comparable computational costs. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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