TY - JOUR ID - pittir16077 UR - http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/16077/ IS - 38 A1 - Cui, J A1 - Liu, H A1 - Jordan, KD Y1 - 2006/09/28/ N2 - Two low-energy minima of (H2O)21 with very different H-bonding arrangements have been investigated with the B3LYP density functional and RIMP2 methods, as well as with the TIP4P, Dang - Chang, AMOEBA, and TTM2-F force fields. The AMOEBA and TTM2-F model potentials give an energy ordering that agrees with the results of the electronic structure calculations, while the TIP4P and Dang - Chang models give the opposite ordering. Insight into the role of many-body polarization for establishing the relative stability of the two isomers is provided by an n-body decomposition of the energies calculated using the various theoretical methods. © 2006 American Chemical Society. JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry B VL - 110 SN - 1520-6106 TI - Theoretical characterization of the (H2O)21 cluster: Application of an n-body decomposition procedure SP - 18872 AV - public EP - 18878 ER -