[AMBER] atoms on phosphonic acid groups collapse during minimization

From: Maria Minakova <mariabiophysics.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:23:28 -0400

Hello,

I am minimizing a complex synthetic compound, which also has phosphonic acid groups attached to it:
    OH
      |
R - P = O
      |
    OH
The automatic atom type assignment (gaff) put (py) atom type for central P, (o) for double bond O, (oh) for O in OH fragment, and (ho) for H in OH fragment.
I did not put any restrictions for minimization, and within fist 1000 steps hydrogens collapsed onto neighboring oxygens, which is not supposed to happen.
I wonder if there is something wrong with my parametrization or minimization script.
Any ideas or suggestions?..

additional info:
Partial charges were assigned by mulliken method (resp didn't work well with the rest of this compound).

With best regards, Maria Minakova.

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