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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Bioorg Med Chem. 2016 Aug 2;24(20):4911–4919. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2016.07.062

Table 2.

VdW types and parameters (σ and ε) for H, C, N, O, P, S, F, Cl, and Br. Reduction factors for all Hs are 0.93, and are 1.00 for other molecules. Delta and gamma are 0.273 and 0.025, respectively. N represents for vdW type index.

N vdW type σ
(Å)
ε
(kcal/mol)
N vdW type σ
(Å)
ε
(kcal/mol)
1 H
(nonpolar)
3.50
9
0.005 15 N
(sp2)
3.81
6
0.109
2 H
(nonpolar, Alkane)
3.47
5
0.005 16 N
(aromatic)
3.69
1
0.131
3 H
(polar, NH/N aromatic)
3.45
0
0.002 17 O
(sp3, hydroxyl, water)
3.57
1
0.078
4 H
(polar, OH)
3.54
1
0.002 18 O
(sp2, carbonyl)
3.69
0
0.077
5 H
(polar, SH)
3.55
0
0.005 19 O
(O in AcO)
3.69
5
0.097
6 H
(aromatic, CH)
3.38
5
0.003 20 O
(O in HPO42−)
3.69
3
0.097
7 C
(sp3)
3.83
9
0.036 21 O
(O in H2 PO4)
3.69
1
0.085
8 C
(sp3, Alkane)
3.81
6
0.012 22 O
(O in H3 PO4)
3.55
0
0.068
9 C
(sp2, Ethene)
4.39
3
0.038 23 P
(phosphate)
4.85
6
0.039
10 C
(sp2, C=O)
4.12
9
0.012 24 S
(sulfide, R−SH)
4.54
1
0.156
11 C
(sp)
4.25
5
0.046 25 S
(sulfur IV, DMSO)
4.41
3
0.130
12 C
(aromatic, C-C)
4.42
0
0.025 26 F
(organofluorine)
3.55
1
0.050
13 C
(aromatic, C-X)
4.22
1
0.034 27 Cl
(organochloride)
4.42
1
0.124
14 N
(sp3)
3.75
3
0.141 28 Br
(organobromine)
4.65
5
0.178