title: Difference spatial distribution function analysis of aqueous solutions. II. Hydration structures of dimethyl ether, 180 degrees ethyl methyl ether and 0 degree ethyl methyl ether solutions.
abstract: Monte Carlo simulations are systematically presented to demonstrate the influence of the hydrophobic group's steric bulk on hydration structure. We have simulated a dimethyl ether (DME), two conformations for ethyl methyl ether (0 degree EME and 180 degrees EME), and 0 degree ethanol solutions. Spatial distribution function (SDF), goo(x,y,z) and difference SDF (DSDF), delta goo(x,y,z), obtained from MC simulation in an infinitely dilute aqueous solution of ether show the three-dimensional probability of an atom-atom pair distribution between solute and solvent atoms. Based on the results of SDF in an infinitely dilute aqueous solution of ether, the distribution of hydration water molecules can be divided into hydrogen acceptor (HA) and hydrophobic hydration (HH), regions, and the spatial orientation of the hydrogen-bonded water in the HA region is found to form a triple-layer structure, as it does in alcohol solutions. From the results of an analysis of the DSDF delta goo(x,y,z) between the SDFs of EME and DME, it is apparent that the distribution changes of hydration water molecules in ether solutions are essentially similar to those in the alcohol solutions. Further, we show that the hydration water molecules are distributed mainly in the stable area in the binding energy's (BE) contour maps for each region.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuyama University, Hiroshima, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ono
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005019:Ethyl Ethers / Q000737:chemistry*; D008738:Methyl Ethers / Q000737:chemistry*; D008961:Models, Structural; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D012996:Solutions; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D005019:Ethyl Ethers; D008738:Methyl Ethers; D012996:Solutions; D014867:Water; C033413:dimethyl ether; C406431:ethyl methyl ether