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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem B. 2012 Sep 28;116(40):12199–12207. doi: 10.1021/jp307790v

Figure 8. Protonated Glh199 model.

Figure 8

Free energy profile for hydration of 2,3-dimethyl-butyl carbenium ion. The reaction coordinate was chosen as the difference between two bond lengths: RC = d(watO-watH) − d(somanCβ…watO). The total length of ab initio QM/MM MD simulations for this reaction path is 220 ps (11 windows * 20 ps each).