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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Comput Chem. 2009 Sep;30(12):1821–1838. doi: 10.1002/jcc.21183

Table 3.

Polarizabilities (in Å3) for pyridine, pyrimidine, imidazole, pyrrole, 4-methyl-imidazole, indole and purine.

Method α1 α2 α3 Δ1α Δ2α
Pyridine
Drudea 9.43 9.65 4.92 8.00 −2.15 4.62
Drudeb 10.08 11.45 5.50 9.01 −1.61 5.40
QM (MP2) 10.96 11.62 6.06 9.55 −2.12 5.26

Pyrimidine
Drudea 8.55 8.07 4.93 7.18 −2.05 3.41
Drudeb 9.85 9.35 5.55 8.25 −2.40 4.07
QM (MP2) 10.07 10.52 5.50 8.70 −2.06 4.81

Pyrrole
Drudea 7.26 7.23 5.30 6.60 −1.00 1.95
Drudeb 8.45 8.30 6.08 7.61 −1.26 2.30
QM (MP2) 9.15 9.57 5.82 8.18 −1.46 3.56

Imidazole
Drudea 6.78 7.21 4.31 6.10 −1.02 2.71
Drudeb 7.76 8.30 4.88 6.98 −1.17 3.18
QM (MP2) 8.32 8.65 5.07 7.35 −1.46 3.43

4-methyl-imidazole
Drudea 9.40 7.92 5.08 7.47 −2.90 3.80
Drudeb 10.88 9.02 5.75 8.55 −3.50 4.50
QM (MP2) 11.66 9.92 6.47 9.35 −3.47 4.58

Indole
Drudea 18.53 13.66 6.62 12.94 −8.39 10.37
Drudeb 22.55 16.19 7.35 15.36 −10.78 13.22
QM (MP2) 21.17 15.99 8.90 15.35 −8.73 10.67

Methyl-indole
Drudea 22.61 17.16 7.74 15.84 −10.16 13.03
Drudeb 29.16 20.43 8.63 19.41 −14.63 17.85
QM (MP2) 23.01 18.33 10.21 17.18 −8.74 11.22

Purine (7H)
Drudea 13.98 10.32 5.90 10.07 −5.87 7.01
Drudeb 16.42 11.82 6.61 11.62 −7.21 8.50
QM (MP2) 17.56 13.13 7.11 12.60 −7.44 9.08
a

Polarizable model with polarizabilities scaled by 0.85.

b

Polarizable model with unscaled polarizabilities.

c

Methodology unknown