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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Math Biol. 2011 Jan 30;63(6):1139–1200. doi: 10.1007/s00285-011-0402-z

Table 5.

Predicted and experimental total solvation free energies for 17 small compounds.

Compound Area (Å2) Volume (Å3) Gnp ΔGp ΔG Exptl Error

(kcal/mol)
glycerol triacetate 241.34 234.11 2.33 −12.36 −10.03 −8.84 −1.19
benzyl bromide 150.66 136.36 1.39 −4.87 −3.47 −2.38 −1.09
benzyl chloride 148.14 133.84 1.36 −5.06 −3.70 −1.93 −1.77
m-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzene 266.67 306.86 2.22 −3.30 −1.07 1.07 −2.14
N,N-dimethyl-p-methoxybenzamide 209.31 202.02 1.99 −9.22 −7.22 −11.01 3.79
N,N-4-trimethylbenzamide 200.27 193.25 1.91 −7.84 −5.93 −9.76 3.83
bis-2-chloroethyl ether 155.71 130.90 1.44 −4.16 −2.71 −4.23 1.52
1,1-diacetoxyethane 177.82 160.48 1.67 −8.21 −6.53 −4.97 −1.56
1,1-diethoxyethane 163.66 143.73 1.55 −4.63 −3.08 −3.28 0.20
1,4-dioxane 109.56 143.73 1.01 −5.64 −4.62 −5.05 0.43
diethyl propanedioate 195.06 182.22 1.87 −7.75 −5.88 −6.00 0.12
dimethoxymethane 109.17 88.36 1.02 −4.64 −3.62 −2.93 −0.69
ethylene glycol diacetate 168.19 160.95 1.62 −8.40 −6.78 −6.34 0.44
1,2-diethoxyethane 169.25 141.92 1.57 −4.40 −2.83 −3.54 0.71
diethyl sulfide 133.81 116.84 1.22 −2.40 −1.17 −1.43 0.26
phenyl formate 148.14 134.84 1.37 −7.82 −6.45 −4.08 −2.37
imidazole 89.05 68.59 0.80 −11.56 −10.76 −9.81 −0.95