QM/MM through the 1990s: The First Twenty Years of Method Development and Applications

Abstract

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the authors of the first two publications utilizing the concept of combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) methods. In celebrating this great event in computational chemistry, we review the early development of combined QM/MM techniques and the associated events that took place through the mid-1990s. We also offer some prospects for the future development of quantum mechanical techniques for macromolecular systems.