PMID- 16494412 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070727 LR - 20060223 IS - 1520-6106 (Print) IS - 1520-5207 (Linking) VI - 110 IP - 8 DP - 2006 Mar 2 TI - Multiscale coarse-graining of ionic liquids. PG - 3564-75 AB - A recently developed multiscale coarse-graining (MS-CG) approach for obtaining coarse-grained force fields from fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulation is applied to the challenging case of the EMIM+NO3- ionic liquid. The force-matching in the MS-CG methodology is accomplished with an explicit separation of bonded and nonbonded forces. While the nonbonded forces are adopted from this force-matching approach, the bonded forces are obtained from fitting the statistical configurational data from the atomistic simulations. The many-body electronic polarizability is also successfully broken into effective pair interactions. With a virial constraint fixing the system pressure, the MS-CG models rebuild satisfactory structural and thermodynamic properties for different temperatures. The MS-CG model developed from a modest atomistic simulation is therefore suitable for simulating much larger systems, because the coarse-grained models show significant time integration efficiency. This approach is expected to be general for coarse-graining other ionic liquids, as well as many other liquid-state systems. The limitations of the present coarse-graining procedure are also discussed. FAU - Wang, Yanting AU - Wang Y AD - Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation and Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East Room 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA. FAU - Izvekov, Sergei AU - Izvekov S FAU - Yan, Tianying AU - Yan T FAU - Voth, Gregory A AU - Voth GA LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. PL - United States TA - J Phys Chem B JT - The journal of physical chemistry. B JID - 101157530 RN - 0 (Ionic Liquids) SB - IM MH - *Algorithms MH - Ionic Liquids/*chemistry MH - Temperature EDAT- 2006/02/24 09:00 MHDA- 2007/07/28 09:00 CRDT- 2006/02/24 09:00 PHST- 2006/02/24 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/07/28 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/02/24 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/jp0548220 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Phys Chem B. 2006 Mar 2;110(8):3564-75. doi: 10.1021/jp0548220.