wbo interpolation dataset question | pavan/jessica | PB – Looking at WBO vs. barrier heights CBy – TIG3 barrier separation may be due to SHORT conjugated alkenes, where some bond remain more double-ish and single-ish. CBy – Reminds me of tetraphenylbenzene, where naive ffs kept barrier pretty low CBy – Largely concerned by the scale – The lower WBO cluster for TIG3 ranges from barrier heights of 5 to 80 kJ/mol, and we’ll assign all of them a barrier height of 25 CBy – TIG7: The WBO range is super narrow in these datasets. Maybe there really isn’t WBO-dependence in these sets/for this torsion. CBy – I'm thinkng that we do want a WBO dependence for TIG7. CBy – From the Rowley data I’ve seen, TIG7 should be one of the really valuable central bonds.
CBy – Two big principles THe ones jessica is working on/the relationship with other valence terms When we see a cluster of points like in the TIG7 plot, it means they’re not very dependent on WBO, and the parameter may need to be separated out
TIG8 Additional datasets? JM – My plans JM – Calculate out other energy components, and do single-molecule fits DM – If we use FB to fit, then the torsion barrier height is implicitly done including the other MM energy components. Then we could plot the barrier height from the MM energy profile. LPW – That sounds like a reasonable approach. LPW – One idea that I had is: We could fragment an individual molecule for which we’re trying to calculate a torsion barrier (every point in the torsion drive), then cleave the molecule and calculate their noncovalent energy. DM – How would we deal with dangling bond? There wouldn’t be room for capping groups. LPW – Agree that we’d need to cap, but not sure how. JW – Use SAFT/SAPT? LPW – Agree that that would work. That would do 3 calcs – fragment 1, fragment 2, and both together. Then it tries to decompose energy into components, but which may not be meaningful. DM – Agree that LPW’s approach would be valuable, though I’m not sure how to implement CBy – Agree. Would like to think more about decomposition idea. Very concerned about error in energies due to sterics. Maybe a first pass would just remove high-steric-energy mols. Could use MM energies to determine that.
HJ – Wanted to ask about fitting plan. If you fit parameters to torsion profile, there are a ton of knobs to set (eg, can other bonded terms change?). DM – Plans for moving forward:
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