SPC/E model of water
The extended simple point charge model, SPC/E is a slight reparameterisation of the SPC model of water, with a modified value for . The molecule is modelled as a rigid isosceles triangle, having charges situated on each of the three atoms. Apart from Coulombic interactions, the molecules interact via long-range Lennard-Jones sites, situated on the oxygen atoms. The parameters are as follows:

parameter | value |
kJ mol-1 | |
(charge neutrality) |
The SPC/E model has a dipole moment of 2.351 D. (Ref. 1 Table I).
Surface tension
The surface tension has been studied for the SPC/E model by Vega and Miguel.
Plastic crystal phases
Recent simulations have demonstrated the existence of plastic crystal phases for the SPC/E model.
References
- H. J. C. Berendsen, J. R. Grigera, and T. P. Straatsma "The missing term in effective pair potentials", Journal of Physical Chemistry 91 pp. 6269 - 6271 (1987)
- Swaroop Chatterjee, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Frank H. Stillinger, and Ruth M. Lynden-Bell "A computational investigation of thermodynamics, structure, dynamics and solvation behavior in modified water models", Journal of Chemical Physics 128 124511 (2008)