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Partition Coefficients of Organic Molecules in Squalane and Water/Ethanol Mixtures by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

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Authors:
  • Lundsgaard, Rasmus ;
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    Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
  • Kontogeorgis, Georgios ;
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    Orcid logo0000-0002-7128-1511
    Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
  • Economou, Ioannis G.
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    The Petroleum Institute
DOI:
10.1016/j.fluid.2011.03.022
Abstract:
Accurate partition coefficient data of migrants between a polymer and a solvent are of paramount importance for estimating the migration of the migrant over time, including the concentration of the migrant at infinite time in the two solvents. In this article it is shown how this partition coefficient can be estimated for both a small hydrophilic and a hydrophobic organic molecules between squalane (used here to mimic low density poly ethylene) and water/ethanol solutes using thermodynamic integration to calculate the free energy of solvation. Molecular dynamics simulations are performed, using the GROMACS software, by slowly decoupling of firstly the electrostatic and then the Lennard–Jones interactions between molecules in the simulation box. These calculations depend very much on the choice of force field. Two force fields have been tested in this work, the TraPPE-UA (united-atom) and the OPLS-AA (all-atom). The computational cheaper TraPPE-UA force field showed to be more accurate over the whole range of systems compared to the OPLS-AA force field. Moreover, some of the calculations were done with five different water models to investigate the influence of the specific water model on the calculations. It was found that the combination of the TraPPE-UA force field and the TIP4p water model gave the best results. Based on the methodology proposed in this article, it is possible to obtain good partition coefficients only knowing the chemical structure of the molecules in the system.
Type:
Journal article
Language:
English
Published in:
Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2011, Vol 306, Issue 2, p. 162-170
Keywords:
Polymer; Molecular Dynamics; Partition coefficient; Free energy calculations
Main Research Area:
Science/technology
Submission year:
2011
ID:
182871615

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