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On the out‐of‐plane deformation of aromatic rings, and its representation by molecular mechanics

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In this paper, it was found that the previous MM2 (or MMP2) description of out-of-plane deformation of aromatic rings sometimes yields distortions which are much too large.
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It has been found that the previous MM2 (or MMP2) description of out‐of‐plane deformation of aromatic rings sometimes yields distortions which are much too large. As a result, rotational barriers involving distortions of such rings may be calculated to have values which are too low. Examples are collected and discussed. An alternative formulation, which appears to significantly reduce the calculational error, is presented.

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Validation of the general purpose Tripos 5.2 force field

TL;DR: In this paper, a molecular mechanics force field implemented in the Sybyl program is described along with a statistical evaluation of its efficiency on a variety of compounds by analysis of internal coordinates and thermodynamic barriers.
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Tinker 8: Software Tools for Molecular Design.

TL;DR: The Tinker software, currently released as version 8, is a modular molecular mechanics and dynamics package written primarily in a standard, easily portable dialect of Fortran 95 with OpenMP extensions, which supports a wide variety of force fields.
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Molecular mechanics (MM3) calculations on conjugated hydrocarbons

TL;DR: In this paper, the MM3 molecular mechanics program has been extended to conjugated systems and a VESCF method is applied to the pi-system to calculate bond orders, from which various stretching and torsional parameters are obtained.
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NMR and molecular modeling study of the conformations of taxol and of its side chain methylester in aqueous and non-aqueous solution.

TL;DR: The conformations of the antimitotic agent taxol and its side chain methyl ester have been studied by NMR-spectroscopy and molecular modeling in hydrophobic (CDCl3) and hydrophilic (water, d6-DMSO) solvents as mentioned in this paper.
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The MMP2 calculational method

TL;DR: The molecular mechanics (MMP2) program and procedures for the treatment of conjugated hydrocarbons, and some of the results which they can achieve are described in this article.
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Determination of the torsional potential function of 1,3‐butadiene

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of 10 lines in the Raman spectrum of 1,3-butadiene have been observed and assigned as torsional overtones, leading to a potential of the form V (φ) = J4i=1(Vi/2) (1 − cosiφ).
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Raman spectra and barriers to internal rotation: biphenyl and nitrobenzene

TL;DR: In this article, the potential function governing internal rotation of bipbenyl and nitrobenzene has been determined by Raman spectroscopy, and the calculated barriers to internal rotation are compared with those determined previously for structurally similar molecules.
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