Rotation-translation fitting

It is also important that the influence of the desorption dynamics on the nuclear motion is discussed. Zimmermann and Ho [65] discuss rotational excitation in photodesorption using a simple impulse model. In particular, rotational energy distributions with two spin-orbit states of NO desorption of on-top species from the Pt( 111) surface and from the oxidized Ni(0 01) surface are analyzed. Furthermore, they also discuss velocity distributions [66] and rotational-translational correlations [67]. Murata and Fukutani [28, 68, 69] analyze the experimental data using a simple impulse model without any fitting parameter. The results are described in the present text in detail, and the procedure is quite different from that derived by Zimmermann and Ho [65]. 

Dollase [8] approached the problem by relating the distorted structure to an optimal idealised polyhedron. The optimal idealised polyhedron was found by rotation, translation and scaling of an idealised form to obtain the least squares best fit. The average distance between the atoms on the idealised polyhedron and those on the distorted polyhedron is taken as a single parameter to describe the degree of distortion. This model is useful if the polyhedron is quite close to one idealised form, but the single parameter obtained gives no indication of the direction of distortion. 

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Figure 18.12 The electron-density map is interpreted by fitting into it pieces of a polypeptide chain with known stereochemistry such as peptide groups and phenyl rings. The electron density (blue) is displayed on a graphics screen in combination with a part of the polypeptide chain (red) in an arbitrary orientation (a). The units of the polypeptide chain can then be rotated and translated relative to the electron density until a good fit is obtained (b). Notice that individual atoms are not resolved in such electron densities, there are instead lumps of density corresponding to groups of atoms. [Adapted from A. Jones Methods Enzym. (eds. H.W. Wyckoff, C.H. Hirs, and S.N. Timasheff) 115B 162, New York Academic Press, 1985.]...

It must be emphasized that Procrustes analysis is not a regression technique. It only involves the allowed operations of translation, rotation and reflection which preserve distances between objects. Regression allows any linear transformation there is no normality or orthogonality restriction to the columns of the matrix B transforming X. Because such restrictions are released in a regression setting Y = XB will fit Y more closely than the Procrustes match Y = XR (see Section 35.3). 

However, the obscure choice of frequencies in the visible and UV regions in the original calculations may have been guided by a desire to fit experimental heats. In fact, the Debye rotational and translational crystal frequencies relate to sublimation energies of the lattice, and, together with internal molecular vibrations, can be used to calculate thermodynamic functions (16). An indirect connection between maximum lattice frequencies (vm) and heats of formation may hold because the former is inversely related to interatomic dimensions (see Section IV,D,1) ... 

The important conclusion is that we get a very good fit to the experimental data assuming an anharmonic coupling to one specific low frequency mode. The normal mode calculation of CO bridgebond on Ni by Richardson and Bradshaw estimates for the frustrated translation to = 76 cm and for the frustrated rotation m = 184 cm " while it is known from EELS data that the metal-molecule stretch is found at 400 cm The calculated values should... 

The model protein is used to search the crystal space until an approximate location is found. This is, in a simplistic way, analogous to the child s game of blocks of differing shapes and matching holes. Classical molecular replacement does this in two steps. The first step is a rotation search. Simplistically, the orientation of a molecule can be described by the vectors between the points in the molecule this is known as a Patterson function or map. The vector lengths and directions will be unique to a given orientation, and will be independent of physical location. The rotation search tries to match the vectors of the search model to the vectors of the unknown protein. Once the proper orientation is determined, the second step, the translational search, can be carried out. The translation search moves the properly oriented model through all the 3-D space until it finds the proper hole to fit in. 

The rotational contribution to the heat capacity Ck>mt is calculated from Eq. 8.127 or 8.128. The internal contribution to the heat capacity C, int contains all the contributions except from translation. The total heat capacity Cp is usually available as a polynomial fit to temperature. Therefore, in using Eq. 8.124, it is convenient to calculate C jnt as... 

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