A Classical Point Charge Model Study of System Size Dependence of Oxidation and Reorganization Free Energies in Aqueous Solution
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Abstract
The response of water to a change of charge of a solvated ion is, to a good approximation, linear for the type of iron-like ions frequently used as a model system in classical force field studies of electron transfer. Free energies for such systems can be directly calculated from average vertical energy gaps. Exploiting this feature, we have computed the free energy and the reorganization energy of the M2+/M3+ and M1+/M2+ oxidations in a series of model systems all containing a single Mn+ ion and an increasing number of simple point charge water molecules. Long-range interactions are taken into account by Ewald summation methods. Our calculations confirm the observation made by Hummer, Pratt, and Garcia (J. Phys. Chem. 1996, 100, 1206) that the finite size correction to the estimate of solvation energy (and hence oxidation free energy) in such a setup is effectively proportional to the inverse third power (1/L3) of the length L of the periodic cell. The finite size correction to the reorganization energy is found to scale with 1/L. These simulation results are analyzed using a periodic generalization of the Born cavity model for solvation, yielding three different estimates of the cavity radius, namely, from the infinite system size extrapolation of oxidation free energy and reorganization energy, and from the slope of the linear dependence of oxidation free energy on 1/L3. The cavity radius for the reorganization energy is found to be significantly larger compared to the radius for the oxidation (solvation) free energy. The radius controlling the 1/L3 dependence of oxidation free energy is found to be comparable to the radius for reorganization. The implication of these results for density functional theory-based ab initio molecular dynamics calculation of redox potentials is discussed.
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