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William L. Jorgensen

Sterling Professor of Chemistry, Yale University
Verified email at yale.edu
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Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

WL Jorgensen, J Chandrasekhar, JD Madura… - The Journal of …, 1983 - pubs.aip.org
Classical Monte Carlo simulations have been carried out for liquid water in the NPT ensemble
at 25 C and 1 atm using six of the simpler intermolecular potential functions for the water …

Development and testing of the OPLS all-atom force field on conformational energetics and properties of organic liquids

WL Jorgensen, DS Maxwell… - Journal of the American …, 1996 - ACS Publications
The parametrization and testing of the OPLS all-atom force field for organic molecules and
peptides are described. Parameters for both torsional and nonbonded energetics have been …

Potential energy functions for atomic-level simulations of water and organic and biomolecular systems

WL Jorgensen, J Tirado-Rives - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
An overview is provided on the development and status of potential energy functions that
are used in atomic-level statistical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations of water …

The OPLS [optimized potentials for liquid simulations] potential functions for proteins, energy minimizations for crystals of cyclic peptides and crambin

WL Jorgensen, J Tirado-Rives - Journal of the American Chemical …, 1988 - ACS Publications
A complete set of intermolecular potential functions has been developed for use in computer
simulations of proteins in their native environment. Parameters are reported for 25 peptide …

Evaluation and reparametrization of the OPLS-AA force field for proteins via comparison with accurate quantum chemical calculations on peptides

…, J Tirado-Rives, WL Jorgensen - The Journal of …, 2001 - ACS Publications
We present results of improving the OPLS-AA force field for peptides by means of refitting
the key Fourier torsional coefficients. The fitting technique combines using accurate ab initio …

OPLS3: a force field providing broad coverage of drug-like small molecules and proteins

…, DS Cerutti, G Krilov, WL Jorgensen… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The parametrization and validation of the OPLS3 force field for small molecules and proteins
are reported. Enhancements with respect to the previous version (OPLS2.1) include the …

A five-site model for liquid water and the reproduction of the density anomaly by rigid, nonpolarizable potential functions

MW Mahoney, WL Jorgensen - The Journal of chemical physics, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
The ability of simple potential functions to reproduce accurately the density of liquid water
from −37 to 100 C at 1 to 10 000 atm has been further explored. The result is the five-site …

Optimized intermolecular potential functions for liquid hydrocarbons

WL Jorgensen, JD Madura… - Journal of the American …, 1984 - ACS Publications
Optimized intermolecular potential functions have been determined for hydrocarbons through
Monte Carlo simulations of 15 liquids: methane, ethane, propane,«-butane, isobutane,«-…

The many roles of computation in drug discovery

WL Jorgensen - Science, 2004 - science.org
An overview is given on the diverse uses of computational chemistry in drug discovery.
Particular emphasis is placed on virtual screening, de novo design, evaluation of drug …

Aromatic-aromatic interactions: free energy profiles for the benzene dimer in water, chloroform, and liquid benzene

WL Jorgensen, DL Severance - Journal of the American Chemical …, 1990 - ACS Publications
An all-atom model for benzene is reported and tested largely in Monte Carlo simulations of
pure liquid benzene, benzene in dilute aqueous solution, and the benzene dimer in water …