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Physical Organic Chemistry of Transition Metal CarbeneComplexes. 17.1 Kinetics of the Reactions of (Arylthio-alkoxycarbene)pentacarbonyl Complexes of Chromium(0)and Tungsten(0) with Thiolate Ions in Aqueous Aceto-nitrile: p Ka Values of the Metal-Protonated TetrahedralAdducts Formed between Carbene Complexes and ThiolateIon [J. Am. Chem. Soc.1999, 121, 11384-11394].CLAUDE F. BERNASCONI* AND MAHAMMAD ALI
Page 11391, subsectionB. k1RS and k-1: The second
sentence should be replaced by the following. This reversalindicates that theintrinsic rate constants,ko,11 for the MeScomplexes are substantially smaller than for the MeO complexes.
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Computational Molecular Biology. Theoretical andComputational Chemistry Series. Vol. 8. Edited by JerzyLeszczynski (Jackson State University, Jackson, MS). Elsevier:Amsterdam and New York. 1999. xvi+ 646 pp. $327.50. ISBN0-444-50030-8.
This book provides very good coverage of the computationaltechniques used in the study and modeling of biomolecules. The bookconsists of 16 chapters covering such topics as the application of hybridquantum mechanical/molecular mechanical potentials for the descriptionof enzyme systems,ab initio studies on nucleic acid bases and theradiation damage to DNA, protein structure prediction, and drug designstrategies. The book presents an excellent blend of theoretical studiesof biomolecules. It is well-organized, with distinctive sections describingstudies of DNA and protein, interspersed with studies of the calculationof binding free energies and electrostatic properties.
Chapter 1 (P. Amara and M. J. Field) introduces quantum mechanical(QM) and molecular mechanical (MM) Hamiltonians and presents anoverview of the hybrid QM/MM potentials. Section 4 of this chapterdescribes the use of hybrid potentials in the treatment of several enzymesystems. Chapter 2 (S. Scheiner) presents an excellent overview ofproton transfer in model biomolecules. Using results fromab initiostudies, the author details proton-transfer properties by way of single-well and double-well potentials and discusses hydrogen bond flexibilityand different types of hydrogen bonds (LBHB, SSHB, etc.).
With this foundation, the next six chapters focus on computationalstudies of nucleic acid bases. In Chapter 3, Sponer, Hobza, andLeszczynski present a detailed overview ofab initio studies on nucleicacid bases, covering the choice of basis sets and the importance ofbasis set superposition error (BSSE) and describing the geometricfeatures of the base pairs. Chapters 4 (M. Orozco et al.) and 5 (L. Gorband J. Leszczynski) offer insights into the effects of solvation on thegeometries of nucleic acid base pairs and various theoretical treatmentsfor the inclusion of solvation effects. In Chapter 6 (M. Aida, M. Kaneko,and M. Dupuis), pyrimidine dimers are studied usingab initio methodsto obtain a detailed understanding of the radiation-induced damage toDNA. Radiation-induced damage to DNA is also investigated in Chapter7 (A.-O. Colson and M. D. Sevilla) through molecular orbital studieson DNA base radicals. Using molecular dynamics simulation studies,
Bansal, Ravikiran, and Chowdhury present a detailed description ofthe geometric features in guanine-rich helical structures (Chapter 8).
Using the example of HIV-1 protease, Tawa, Topol, and Burt presentthe calculation of the relative binding free energies of some inhibitorsin Chapter 9. Chapter 10 (W. A. Sokalski et al.) outlines the method-ology to model the electrostatic effects in biomolecules.
Chapters 11-14 discuss the use of various computational approachesfor protein structure prediction, for modeling DNA-protein interactions,and for studies on small-molecule and peptide interactions withmembranes. Chapter 11 (J. Skolnick, A. Kolinski, and A. R. Ortiz)discusses the use of simplified models for the prediction of proteinfolding and presents the current approaches to this problem such asthreading, restraint models, and evolutionary-based methods. It is achallenging task to model protein-DNA interactions even with state-of-the-art computational power and tools. The authors of Chapter 12(K. Zakrzewska and R. Lavery) are of similar opinion and point outsome of the areas that need to be addressed in order to gain a betterunderstanding of these biomolecular interactions. Continuing on thissubject, Chapter 13 (A. Pohorille et al.) describes simulation studiesof small molecules and peptides interacting with membrane proteins.Using an explicit water model and a continuum solvent model, Chapter14 (J. D. Madura and A. Wierzbicki) presents simulation studies onthe modeling of antifreeze proteins.
Chapter 15 (N. Bodor, P. Buchwald, and M.-J. Huang) describessome of the QSAR-based approaches to retrometabolic drug designstudies. Using a model based on quantum mechanics, Chapter 16(R. Wallace) presents an overview of the complexity of treating neuralaspects of membrane biophysics computationally.
My only criticism of this book is that more careful editing is needed.This book does manage to cover a wide range of theoretical applicationsfor biomolecular problems. Overall, it should be very useful toresearchers in a wide range of specialties.
Pavankumar N. V. Petluru, BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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7152 J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 122, No. 29, 2000 Additions and Corrections