normal Bond connectivity for Methyl benzoate

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1 year 9 months ago #9416 by shalinijr
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Hi,

Methyl benzoate is modeled as three TC5 beads for the aromatic ring and one N4a bead for the acetate group. In the .itp file for this compound (as shown below), bead 1 (N4a) is bonded to beads 2 and 3 (TC5, TC5) as opposed to just one of them. Could someone help in explaining this?

;;;;;; METHYL-BENZOATE

[moleculetype]
; molname nrexcl
MBZOA 1

[atoms]
; id type resnr residu atom cgnr charge
1 N4a 1 MBZOA O1 1 0
2 TC5 1 MBZOA R2 2 0
3 TC5 1 MBZOA R3 3 0
4 TC5 1 MBZOA R4 4 0

[bonds]
; i j funct length force.c.
1 2 1 0.389 5000 ; cog
1 3 1 0.389 5000 ; cog

Thank you,

Shalini

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1 year 9 months ago #9419 by vainikka
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Hi,

Methyl benzoate has an elongated square diamond shape (◇) on the CG level. If you went with just a single bond, you'd also need an angle potential to keep the N4a bead oriented correctly. By having two connections, you make a neat triangle with the two TC5 beads, keeping the model simpler.

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1 year 9 months ago #9420 by riccardo
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Yes! An even better explanation of the one I gave here: github.com/ricalessandri/Martini3-small-molecules/issues/9

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1 year 9 months ago - 1 year 9 months ago #9423 by shalinijr
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Thank you so much for the explanation and the link. It is clear now.
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