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The Study of Chiral Properties of Model Water Systems

O.N. Gradoboeva

Memoirs of the Faculty of Physics 2016. N 3.

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This article is devoted to the study of chiral properties of water configurations with achiral ions K$^+$ and Na$^+$ and with chiral biological molecules: L-, D-valin and L-, D–glycerate. Water system with ions was obtained using the Monte–Carlo method, a water shell of biological molecules was obtained using the Avogadro algorithm Conjiugate Gradients. It was revealed that addition of achiral impurities in a model water system does not change the 50/50 distribution of the number of right and left water configurations, and the addition of chiral molecules D-valine leads to the predominance of the left configurations in the sample.

PACS:
61.20.Ja Computer simulation of liquid structure
Authors
O.N. Gradoboeva
Department of Molecular Processes and Extreme States of Matter, Faculty of Physics, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
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