Veronika Jurásková¹, Frédéric Célerse¹, Rubén Laplaza^1,2, Clémence Corminboeuf^1,2,3*

1 Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design (LCMD), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland.

2 National Center for Competence in Research-Catalysis (NCCR-Catalysis), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

3 National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

* Corresponding authors emails: clemence.corminboeuf@epfl.ch

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:90-vd [version v1]

Publication date: Mar 16, 2022

How to cite this record

Veronika Jurásková, Frédéric Célerse, Rubén Laplaza, Clémence Corminboeuf, Assessing the persistence of chalcogen bonds in solution with neural network potentials, Materials Cloud Archive 2022.42 (2022), https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:90-vd

Description

Non-covalent bonding patterns are commonly harvested as a design principle in the field of catalysis, supramolecular chemistry, and functional materials to name a few. Yet, their computational description generally neglects finite temperature and environment effects, which promote competing interactions and alter their static gas-phase properties. Recently, neural network potentials (NNPs) trained on Density Functional Theory (DFT) data have become increasingly popular to simulate molecular phenomena in condensed phase with an accuracy comparable to ab initio methods. To date, most applications have centered on solid-state materials or fairly simple molecules made of a limited number of elements. Herein, we focus on the persistence and strength of chalcogen bonds involving benzotelluradiazole in condensed phase. While the tellurium-containing heteroaromatic molecules are known to exhibit pronounced interactions with anions and lone pairs of different atoms, the relevance of competing intermolecular interactions, notably with the solvent, is complicated to monitor experimentally but also challenging to model at an accurate electronic structure level. Here, we train direct and baselined NNPs to reproduce hybrid DFT energies and forces in order to identify what are the most prevalent non-covalent interactions occurring in a solute-Cl-THF mixture. The simulations in explicit solvent highlight the clear competition with chalcogen bonds formed with the solvent and the short-range directionality of the interaction with direct consequences for the molecular properties in the solution. The comparison with other potentials (e.g., AMOEBA, direct NNP, and continuum solvent model) also demonstrates that baselined NNPs offer a reliable picture of the non--covalent interaction interplay occurring in solution.

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lmp1.in MD5md5:9a2d4d5485b2d5cc78481da3895b7026	2.3 KiB	Example LAMMPS input to run MD with NNP using i-PI
model_baselined.tar.gz MD5md5:54c66b0695a147dadc8a4d7748c7723e	117.2 MiB	Parameters for the baselined NNPs in n2p2 format
model_direct.tar.gz MD5md5:2df14da4885d249d681a62f2b2336926	779.0 KiB	Parameters for the direct NNPs in n2p2 format
pbe.cp2k MD5md5:6575bad7f35df5bc7dd59e1ba1c106d8	1.7 KiB	Input for PBE computations in cp2k
pbe0.cp2k MD5md5:88396e7112a32ce8b98d3aaab4be5677	3.3 KiB	Input for PBE0 computations in cp2k
plumed.in MD5md5:ffd2bebe722010fcc6ce47c14a95aaa8	157 Bytes	Example PLUMED input for umbrella sampling

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Keywords

chalcogen bonding in solution neural network potentials molecular dynamics non-covalent interactions machine learning EPFL ERC SNSF