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疏水水化熵损失的物理根源

Physical origin underlying the entropy loss upon hydrophobic hydration

Aljaz Godec, Franci Merzel

摘要:

疏水效应(HE)通常与油和水在环境条件下的分层相关联,并且在确定生物分子组装体在水溶液中的结构和稳定性方面起主导作用。在分子尺度上,HE具有熵起源。据信,疏水颗粒通过减少可用于氢键合的构型空间的体积来诱导周围水中的有序性。在这里,我们用计算机模拟结果表明,这种传统的图片是不正确的。分析集体波动的水团簇,我们能够提供一个从根本上新的图片HE的基础上显着的多体相关性影响分子之间的氢键的切换。这些相关性出现作为一个非本地的补偿减少波动的本地静电场中存在的非极性溶质。

英文摘要:

The hydrophobic effect (HE) is commonly associated with the demixing of oil and water at ambient conditions and plays the leading role in determining the structure and stability of biomolecular assembly in aqueous solutions. On the molecular scale HE has an entropic origin. It is believed that hydrophobic particles induce order in the surrounding water by reducing the volume of con- figuration space available for hydrogen bonding. Here we show with computer simulation results that this traditional picture is not correct. Analyzing collective fluctuations in water clusters we are able to provide a fundamentally new picture of HE based on pronounced many-body correlations affecting the switching of hydrogen bonds between molecules. These correlations emerge as a non-local compensation of reduced fluctuations of local electrostatic fields in the presence of an apolar solute.

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