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The energy differences between conformers and the barriers between them are frequently on the order of only a few kcal mol , but they can have profound chemical consequences. Theoretical chemistry has played an essential role 

In quantum chemical methods the three important factors are all taken into account automatically to various degrees of accuracy and are not explicitly separated. In semiempiri-cal calculations of the neglect-of-differential-overlap type, no additional parameter adjustmeQts.are.nonnaUy..perfoaned,.aod results are similar to those of MM methods. There is not much advantage to the use of these more elaborate methods in conformational studies of linear chain molecules. 

An area in which quantum mechanical methods hold an edge over molecular mechanics is the rationalization of the 

These are the shortest linear chains with more than one chain conformer. To discuss all such chains Jointly, we define reduced sizes, which reflect the van der Waals radius of X, and the length of the A-X bond, tax, in units of the backbone A-A bond length taa- Table 1 lists the reduced van der Waals radii R = /rp and the reduced lateral bond lengths / ax = ax/ aa for common substituents. The two properties are correlated and their sum R + / ax will be referred to as the reduced effective substituent size. For common substituents, the reduced size ranges from 1.14 for H on a silicon chain to 2.31 for Br on a carbon chain (Table 1). 

The best known of the AaXio species is n-butane, C4H10. It has two mirror-image gauche nninima (g ) at = 65°, and an anti minimum (a) at co = 180° at a somewhat lower 

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A variety of theories for flexible macromolecules (rod, spheres, cylinders, etc.) have been proposed, many of them being geared toward the study of polymers and DNA (see Conformational Sampling Conformational Search Linear Chains Conformational Search Proteins and Polymers Structural Representation), A brief discussion of representative methodologies for polymers, proteins, and nucleic acids follows. 

Conformational Sampling Conformational Search Linear Chains Conformational Search Proteins Systematic and Random Search Methods for Finding Conformers of Molecules. 

Many of the techniques described previously for structure prediction of macromolecules and docking predictions can be applied to the conformation analysis of small molecules with a view to energy minimization or constraint satisfaction. (See Conformational Analysis 1 Conformational Analysis 2 Conformational Analysis 3 Conformational Search Linear Chains Conformational Search Medium-sized Molecules and Conformational Search Proteins.)... 

The tetranuclear structure of tetrakis[( i3-2,4-dimethoxyphenylimido)tin(II)] (19), is related to the Su4N4 cubes described above as (4) and (5), each of which was characterized as a solvate. Although this structure came out as a hit in the described search of the CSD, disorder in the aromatic rings preclude a detailed analysis of the crystal packing. However, it is apparent that a linear chain is found, mediated by the formation of a pair of Sn... tt interactions on either side of the cluster, as described for (5). 

Low-dimensional (LD) materials are of renewed interest for chemists and phycisists. On the one hand, one-dimensional (ID) linear chains or two-dimensional (2D) planar arrays (Fig. 1) allow to study fundamental properties of matter more simply than three-dimensional (3D) lattices much synthetic work has been stimulated by the search for materials with structures and properties close to the 1D and 2D theoretical models, simpler than the 3D ones. On the other hand, such systems present by themselves new, exciting, and sometimes predictable and tunable physical and chemical properties. 

An intriguing aspect of carbon chemistry is the preparation of infinite one-dimensional rods constituted of alkyne units. Interest in such compounds dates back to Baeyer, who studied the oxidative Glaser [66] coupling of acetylenes in the search for infinite linear chains of pure carbon [67]. A century later, the preparation and characterization of infinite linear polyynes [-(CsQ -] named carbynes were actively pursued using a variety of methods [68], But reports of the preparation and structure of these materials, which are calculated to be onedimensional conductors, remain controversial [69]. 

Carothers also produced a number of aliphatic linear polyesters but these did not fulfil his requirements for a fibre-forming polymer which were eventually met by the polyamide, nylon 66. As a consequence the polyesters were discarded by Carothers. However, in 1941 Whinfield and Dickson working at the Calico Printers Association in England announced the discovery of a fibre from poly(ethylene terephthalate). Prompted by the success of such a polymer, Farbenfabriken Bayer initiated a programme in search of other useful polymers containing aromatic rings in the main chain. Carbonic acid derivatives were reacted with many dihydroxy compounds and one of these, bis-phenol A, produced a polymer of immediate promise. 

By contrast, Fig. 9c shows an alternative scheme using linked list. In this scheme (scheme II) the information associated with a nonzero element is stored in a triplet containing the row index, the value of the nonzero element, and a pointer to the address of the next element in the same column. The starting addresses of each column are stored in another n locations. Notice that in this scheme the successive elements need not be stored in consecutive locations. To insert or delete an element requires only the change of one or two pointers no rearrangement of the list is necessary. On the other hand, the storage requirement for the same matrix is now 3 N + n and, as it stands, to find a specific nonzero element requires a linear search through the chain. 

The search for the form of W of vulcanized rubbers was initiated by polymer physicists. In 1934, Guth and Mark2 and Kuhn3) considered an idealized single chain which consists of a number of links jointed linearly and freely, and derived the probability P that the end-to-end distance of the chain assumes a given value. The resulting probability function of Gaussian type was then substituted into the Boltzmann equation for entropy s, which reads,... 

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