summary: MD of ions in NaCl solution

 Dear Netters,
 I am sending the summary about a molecular dynamics in NaCl solution.
 I would like to thank Thomas Huber and Pascal Auffinger for their answers
 that are very helpful for me.
 Here is my problem that sent some weeks ago.
 I have been simulating a behaviour of several molecules in water using Amber
 program. However, some interesting phenomena take place in 0.9% NaCl solution.
 These molecules, that are ions, have two SO3- groups which play an important
 role in their interactions. I would like to take into consideration
 an influence of Na+ ions in my simulations. In the Amber's manual they
 suggest using CION program. I am not sure what might be the best way to do
 this.
 I should be very grateful for any further comments, advice, references.
 I will send the second summary as soon as possible.
                                                  Thank you in advance.
                                                  Marek Skowronek
 Here are the answers:
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 From Thomas Huber
 Marek,
 Do you want to perform an explicit water simulation, I guess yes.
 Then 0.9% NaCL = 150 mM, i.e. 1 Na+, 1Cl+ per 367 H2O.
 At what concentration do you want to simulate the molecules (you said they
 are ions) ?
 I would say, you have to simulate a very large system, e.g. 3700 Water,
 to have only some statistically meaningful answers.
 Try to use a higher concentration of NaCl.
 Then 2nd, you will have to include long range electrostatics. With Amber
 4.1 the particle mesh ewald summation (PME) method would be ok.
 Another method, neglecting longe range electrostatics, is to include
 polarization of water and non-additive three body nonbonded interactions.
 A paper from Peter Kollman showed the advantage of this potential. It was
 some 1992 (or 91) in JACS. (Dang&Kollman ??)
                                                                     Thomas
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 From Pascal Auffinger
 Hi Marek,
 Please take a look at :
 P. Auffinger, D.L. Beveridge,
 Chem. Phys. lett. 234 - 1995 - 413-415
                                                                     Pascal
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