Macro-pKa
Accurate, physics-based modeling of the aqueous ionization and speciation behavior of small molecules
Overview
Macro-pKa is an automated solution for predicting macroscopic pKa values and pH-dependent tautomeric populations of ligands that combines physics-based DFT calculations with empirical corrections.
Key Capabilities
Automatically identify protonatable/deprotonatable sites, enumerate the protonation states, and calculate the micro-pKa values with an enhanced scheme for generating empirical corrections
Calculate the complex aqueous speciation behavior of tautomerizable ligands
Capture nuanced but important energetic effects like conformational averaging, solvation/shielding, hydrogen bonding, and stereochemistry
Generate an easy-to-read report that includes predicted macro-pKa of a small molecule, its different constituent protonation states and their populations, and a speciation diagram for the major species in solution
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