[Example] MaterialsStudio Transition State Exploration

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  Materials Studio provides a graphical user environment called Materials Studio Visualizer, which can be used to create, manipulate, and display models of molecules, crystals, surfaces, polymers, and mesoscale structures.

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  Multiscale Simulation of Materials 'Materials Studio' is a comprehensive modeling/simulation platform equipped with: - Quantum mechanics (Density Functional Theory) - Classical mechanics (Molecular Dynamics Calculations) - Mesoscale (Dissipative Particle Dynamics Calculations, etc.) along with statistical, analytical, and crystallization tools.

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  ◇Transition State Exploration Using LST/QST (Overview) - To explore the potential energy surface of a chemical reaction, information such as structural, energetic, and kinetic data for each step of the reaction process is required. - Among that information, finding the transition state is particularly important. - In this case, we are analyzing using LST and QST, which are well-known methods for transition state exploration, in "Materials Studio."

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  ◇Calculation Model and Method 221_4 - Vinyl alcohol was used as the reactant, and acetaldehyde was used as the product in the calculation model. - Additionally, by using LST to linearly interpolate the reaction pathway from the reactants and products, we created the reaction pathway. - By combining this reaction pathway with QST, we will conduct a transition state search. - For the structural optimization of the model and the transition state search, we used the DMol3 module, which can handle a wide range of computational targets in quantum mechanical calculations.

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  ◇Discussion of the Required Physical Property Values - The diagram shows the flow of transition state analysis. - First, by combining the linear reaction pathway obtained from LST with QST, we explore the reaction pathway and plot it. - Next, we analyze the spectrum from that result and visualize the molecular movements related to the peaks of the imaginary frequencies. - In the visualized molecule, it can be seen that as hydrogen moves, the bond order also changes.