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Instead of calculations, practical work can be done with scale models (33). In any case, calculations should be checked wherever possible by experimental methods. Using a Monte Carlo method, for example, on a shape that was not measured experimentaUy, the sample size in the computation was aUowed to degrade in such a way that the results of the computation were inaccurate (see Fig. 8) (30,31). Reversing the computation or augmenting the sample size as the calculation proceeds can reveal or eliminate this source of error. 

RH Smith Jr, WL Jorgensen, J Tirado-Rives, ML Lamb, PAJ Janssen, CJ Michejda, MBK Smith. Prediction of binding affinities for TIBO inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase using Monte Carlo simulations m a linear response method. J Med Chem 41 5272-5286, 1998. 

S. Murad, J. G. Powles, B. Holtz. Osmosis and reverse osmosis in solutions Monte-Carlo simulations and van der Waals one-fluid theory. Mol Phys 55 1473, 1995. 

In all these examples, the importance of good simulation and modeling cannot be stressed enough. A variety of methods have been used in this field to simulate the data in the cases studies described above. Blander et al. [4], for example, used a semi-empirical molecular orbital method, MNDO, to calculate the geometries of the free haloaluminate ions and used these as a basis for the modeling of the data by the RPSU model [12]. Badyal et al. [6] used reverse Monte Carlo simulations, whereas Bowron et al. [11] simulated the neutron data from [MMIM]C1 with the Empirical Potential Structure Refinement (EPSR) model [13]. 

We can now take one of two approaches (1) construct a probabilistic CA along lines with the Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm outlined above (see section 7.1.3.1), or (2) define a deterministic but reversible rule consistent with the microcanonical prescription. As we shall immediately see, however, neither approach yields the expected results. 

Just as in a conventional Monte Carlo simulation, correct sampling of the transition path ensemble is enforced by requiring that the algorithm obeys the detailed balance condition. More specifically, the probability n [ZW( ) - z(n)( )]2 to move from an old path z ° 22) to a new one " (2/ ) in a Monte Carlo step must be exactly balanced by the probability of the reverse move from 22) to z<,J> 22)... 

HEPT and nevirapine analogs with HIV-1 reverse transcriptase via Monte Carlo simulations, J. Med. Chem. 44 145 (2001). 

Zhang, L., Rafferty, J.L., Siepmann, J.I., Chen, B., and Schure, M.R., Chain conformation and solvent partitioning in reversed-phase liquid chromatography Monte Carlo simulations for various water/methanol concentrations, J. Chromatogr. A, 1126, 219, 2006. 

Chen C-C, Dormidontova EE. Monte Carlo simulations of end-adsoption of head-to-tail reversibly associated pol3uners. Mactomolecules 2006 29 9528-9538. 

Random structure methods have proved useful in solving structures from X-ray powder diffraction patterns. The unit cell can usually be found from these patterns, but the normal single-crystal techniques for solving the structure cannot be used. A variation on this technique, the reverse Monte Carlo method, includes in the cost function the difference between the observed powder diffraction pattern and the powder pattern calculated from the model (McGreevy 1997). It is, however, always necessary to include some chemical information if the correct structure is to be found. Various constraints can be added to the cost function, such as target coordination numbers or the deviation between the bond valence sum and atomic valence (Adams and Swenson 2000b Swenson and Adams 2001). 

McGreevy, R. L. (1997). Reverse Monte Carlo methods for structure modelling. In C. R. A. Catlow (ed.), Computer Modelling in Inorganic Crystallography. San Diego and New York Academic Press, pp. 151-84. 

Swenson, J. and Adams, St. (2001). The application of the bond valence method to reverse Monte Carlo produced structural models of superionic glasses. Phys. Rev. B64, 024204. 

In Monte Carlo computations, we do not calculate c but CJC °. Since, in the limit of large C °, CJCn° = c /a", where a is the number of choices for the equivalent unrestricted chain with no self-reversals, the following expression is given for C ... 

The SM2/AM1 model was used to examine anomeric and reverse anomeric effects and allowed to state that aqueous solvation tends to reduce anomeric stabilization [58]. Moreover, SM2/AM1 and SM3/PM3 models were accounted for in calculations of the aqueous solvation effects on the anomeric and conformational equilibria of D-glucopy-ranose. The solvation models put the relative ordering of the hydroxymethyl conformers in line with the experimentally determined ordering of populations. The calculations indicated that the anomeric equilibrium is controlled primarily by effects that the gauche/trans 0-C6-C5-0 hydroxymethyl conformational equilibrium is dominated by favorable solute-solvent hydrogen bonding interactions, and that the rotameric equilibria were controlled mainly by dielectric polarization of the solvent [59]. On the other hand, Monte Carlo results for the effects of solvation on the anomeric equilibrium for 2-methoxy-tetrahydropyran indicated that the AM1/SM2 method tends to underestimate the hydration effects for this compound [60]. 

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