A test of ligand field molecular mechanics as an efficient alternative to QM/MM for modelling metalloproteins: the structures of oxidised type I copper centres.

Ligand Field Molecular Mechanics based on homoleptic model systems delivers accurate, unbiased geometries of complete mononuclear blue copper proteins about four orders of magnitude faster than comparable QM/MM calculations.

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