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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Theory Comput. 2009 Jun 9;5(6):1462–1473. doi: 10.1021/ct900078k

Table 3.

Results for the energy, enthalpy, and entropy of liquid water from various methods

water models TIP4P TIP3P SPC SPC/E TIP4P-Ew
excess energy −9.85 −9.49 −9.90 −11.08 −10.91
excess enthalpy −10.43 −10.07 −10.48 −11.66(−10.48a) −11.49(−10.45b)
excess enthalpy* −10.41 −10.09 −10.47 −11.69(−10.51a) −11.61(−10.57b)
excess entropy from NN −13.67 −11.57 −13.19 −14.72 −15.09
excess entropy** −14.43 −13.39 −14.46 −15.57 −15.53
excess free energy from NN −6.36 −6.63 −6.55 −7.27(−6.09a) −7.00(−5.96b)
excess free energy* −6.11 −6.10 −6.16 −7.05(−5.87a) −6.98(−5.94b)
excess free energy from exp −6.33
excess enthalpy from exp −10.52

Energies in kcal/mol, entropies in cal/mol K (e.u.)

*

results from Shirts43

**

results from Shirts43 by extracting enthalpy from free energy

a

Include polarization correction39

b

Include polarization correction40