Automatic Generation of Flexible-Monomer Intermolecular Potential Energy Surfaces.

J Chem Theory Comput

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States.

Published: April 2020

A method is developed for automatic generation of nonreactive intermolecular two-body potential energy surfaces (PESs) including intramonomer degrees of freedom. This method, called flex-autoPES, is an extension of the autoPES method developed earlier, which assumes rigid monomers. In both cases, the whole PES development proceeds without any human intervention. The functional form used is a sum of products of site-site functions (both atomic and off-atomic sites can be used). The leading terms with sites involving different monomers are of physically motivated form. The long-range part of a PES is computed from monomer properties without using any dimer information. The close-range part is fitted to dimer interaction energies computed using electronic structure methods. Virtually any method can be used in such calculations, but the use of symmetry-adapted perturbation theory provides a seamless connection to the long-range part of the PES. The performance of the flex-autoPES code was tested by developing a full-dimensional PES for the water dimer and PESs including only some soft intramonomer degrees of freedom for the ethylene glycol dimer and for the ethylene glycol-water dimer. In the case of the water dimer, the root-mean-square error (RMSE) of the PES from the data points with negative total energies is 0.03 kcal/mol, and we expect this PES to be more accurate than any previously published PES of this type. For the ethylene glycol dimer and the ethylene glycol-water dimers, the analogous RMSEs are 0.25 and 0.1 kcal/mol, respectively.

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