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Cluster size convergence for the energetics of the oxygen evolving complex in PSII.

ABSTRACT: Density functional theory calculations have been made to investigate the stability of the energetics for the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. Results published elsewhere have given excellent agreement with experiments for both energetics and structures, where many of the experimental results were obtained several years after the calculations were done. The computational results were obtained after a careful extension from small models to a size of about 200 atoms, where stability of the results was demonstrated. However, recently results were published by Isobe et al., suggesting that very different results could be obtained if the model was extended from 200 to 340 atoms. The present study aims at understanding where this difference comes from. © 2017 The Authors. Journal of Computational Chemistry Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

SUBMITTER: Siegbahn PEM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5575486 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

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Cluster size convergence for the energetics of the oxygen evolving complex in PSII.

Siegbahn Per E M PEM Li Xichen X

Journal of computational chemistry 20170630 25

Density functional theory calculations have been made to investigate the stability of the energetics for the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. Results published elsewhere have given excellent agreement with experiments for both energetics and structures, where many of the experimental results were obtained several years after the calculations were done. The computational results were obtained after a careful extension from small models to a size of about 200 atoms, where stability of th ...[more]

PMID: 28667689

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