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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Theory Comput. 2007;3(6):1927–1946. doi: 10.1021/ct700100a

Table 11.

Self-diffusion coefficients of alcohols, (Dtot), 10−5 cm2/s

Alcohola DPBC Dcorr Dtot Exp.
C22 Drude C22 Drude
MeOH 2.16 (0.16) 2.03 (0.44) 0.56 2.72 2.59 2.4
EtOH 1.08 (0.15) 0.93 (0.13) 0.25 1.33 1.18 1.0
2-PrOH 0.60 (0.13) 0.52 (0.07) 0.12 0.72 0.64 0.6
1-PrOH 0.66 (0.13) 0.66 (0.16) 0.13 0.79 0.79 0.6
a

Data calculated as in reference: methanol21, 8890, ethanol, 22, 8891 iso-propanol,89,90 n-propanol. 8991 Dpbc is the direct result obtained from MD simulation involving periodic boundary condition; Dcorr is the correction for system-size effect according to eq. 4.