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Urea: An ab initio and force field study of the gas and solid phases

โœ Scribed by H. Sun; P. W.-C. Kung

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
90 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0192-8651

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โœฆ Synopsis

Abstract

We have studied the gaseous and solid phases of urea using both quantum mechanics calculation and force field simulation methods. Our ab initio calculations confirmed experimental observations that urea structure is planar in the crystal, but nonplanar in the gas phase. Based on electron structure analysis, we suggest that the significant difference between these two structures in different environments can be qualitatively explained by two resonance structures. The planar structure is more polarized than the nonplanar one, and the former is stabilized in the solid phases due to strong electrostatic interactions. We found classical force field method is incapable to represent such strong polarization effect. Using molecular dynamics simulations with a force field optimized for condensed phases, we calculated the crystalline structures of urea in the temperature range of 12 to 293 K. The densities as well as cell parameters are within 2% deviation from the experimental data in the temperature range. ยฉ 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 26: 169โ€“174, 2005

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