Cone-angle radial profile

Figure 5 Generation of a cone-angle radial profile, (a) A sphere of radius d (a variable) is allowed to grow from the metal toward the ligand, (b) The plot of cone angle (or solid angle see Sec. 3.4) versus radial distance, d, is called the cone-angle radial profile. (From Ref. 48.)...

Analyses of cone-angle radial profiles have been used to correlate multinu-clear NMR data with spatial regions of steric overlap (43). Cone-angle radial profiles have the potential to be used to predict relative stabilities of cis and trans isomers and to predict coordination numbers of bulky ligands. However, cone-angle profiles are very sensitive to the conformation of a ligand. 

Figure 6 Three-dimensional cone-angle radial profiles, (a) A circle of radius cARP is plotted at each distance, d(see Fig. 5). (b) At each distance d, a surface of cARP versus (f> (the M-P rotational angle see Fig. 4) is plotted. (From Ref. 29.)...

Coville and coworkers have attempted to generate a more general, and potentially more widely applicable, profile methodology (29). A cone-angle radial profile, CARP, is a plot of the variation of cone angle as a function of radial distance from the metal (Fig. 5). (This methodology was a modification of the solid-angle... 

Lee JY, Magda JJ, Hu H, Larson RG (2002) Cone angle effects, radial pressure profile, and second normal stress difference for shear-thickening wormlike micelles. J Rheol 46(1) 195-208... 

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