Issue 26, 2020

Polarizable embedding QM/MM: the future gold standard for complex (bio)systems?

Abstract

Nowadays, hybrid QM/MM approaches are widely used to study (supra)molecular systems embedded in complex biological matrices. However, in their common formulation, mutual interactions between the quantum and classical parts are neglected. To go beyond such a picture, a polarizable embedding can be used. In this perspective, we focus on the induced point dipole formulation of polarizable QM/MM approaches and we show how efficient and linear scaling implementations have allowed their application to the modeling of complex biosystems. In particular, we discuss their use in the prediction of spectroscopies and in molecular dynamics simulations, including Born–Oppenheimer dynamics, enhanced sampling techniques and nonadiabatic descriptions. We finally suggest the theoretical and computational developments that still need to be achieved to overcome the limitations which have prevented so far larger diffusion of these methods.

Graphical abstract: Polarizable embedding QM/MM: the future gold standard for complex (bio)systems?

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
20 Mme 2020
Accepted
12 Jan 2020
First published
16 Jan 2020

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020,22, 14433-14448

Polarizable embedding QM/MM: the future gold standard for complex (bio)systems?

M. Bondanza, M. Nottoli, L. Cupellini, F. Lipparini and B. Mennucci, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 14433 DOI: 10.1039/D0CP02119A

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