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In order to function effectively, the organisational structure should make the required flow of information for field development and management as easy as possible. For example, in trying to co-ordinate daily operations, information is required on... 

Interpretable high-resolution structural infomiation (e.g. preservation of dimensions, or correlation of the stmctiiral detail with a physiologically or biochemically controlled state) is therefore obtained exclusively from samples in which life has been stopped very quickly and with a sufficiently high time resolution for the cellular dynamics [19]. Modem concepts for specimen preparation therefore try to avoid traditional, chemical... 

One reason that the symmetric stretch is favored over the asymmetric one might be the overall process, which is electron transfer. This means that most of the END trajectories show a nonvanishing probability for electron transfer and as a result the dominant forces try to open the bond angle during the collision toward a linear structure of HjO. In this way, the totally symmetric bending mode is dynamically promoted, which couples to the symmetric stretch, but not to the asymmetric one. 

Conical intersections are important in molecular photochemistry, according to the current consensus, which is based on the combination of experimental and theoretical data. In this chapter, we tried to show that the location and approximate structure of conical intersections may be deduced by simple considerations of the changes in spin-pairing accompanying a reaction. We have also shown how these ideas may be put to practical computational application. 

The mixed oxide Fc304 (tri-iron tetroxide) is a black solid, which occurs naturally as magnetite it is formed when iron(III) oxide is strongly heated, and its structure is effectively made up of oxide (O ) and iron(II) and iron(III) ions. 

The systematic lUPAC nomenclature of compounds tries to characterize compounds by a unique name. The names are quite often not as compact as the trivial names, which are short and simple to memorize. In fact, the lUPAC name can be quite long and cumbersome. This is one reason why trivial names are still heavily used today. The basic aim of the lUPAC nomenclature is to describe particular parts of the structure (fi agments) in a systematic manner, with special expressions from a vocabulary of terms. Therefore, the systematic nomenclature can be, and is, used in database systems such as the Chemical Abstracts Service (see Section 5.4) as index for chemical structures. However, this notation does not directly allow the extraction of additional information about the molecule, such as bond orders or molecular weight. 

As was said in the introduction (Section 2.1), chemical structures are the universal and the most natural language of chemists, but not for computers. Computers woi k with bits packed into words or bytes, and they perceive neither atoms noi bonds. On the other hand, human beings do not cope with bits very well. Instead of thinking in terms of 0 and 1, chemists try to build models of the world of molecules. The models ai e conceptually quite simple 2D plots of molecular sti uctures or projections of 3D structures onto a plane. The problem is how to transfer these models to computers and how to make computers understand them. This communication must somehow be handled by widely understood input and output processes. The chemists way of thinking about structures must be translated into computers internal, machine representation through one or more intermediate steps or representations (sec figure 2-23, The input/output processes defined... 

We describe here a new structure representation which extends the valence bond concept by new bond types that account for multi-haptic and electron-deficient bonds. This representation is called Representation Architecture for Molecular Structures by Electron Systems (RAMSES) it tries to incorporate ideas from Molecular Orbital (MO) Theory [8T]. 

A fingerprint ofa chemical structure tries to identify a molecule with some special characteristics, much in the same way as a human fingerprint identifies a person. The characteristic property can, for example, be described by the structure or struc-... 

I ll e con cept of a param cter set is an iin port an t (but often in con vc-nicnl) aspect of molecular m cchan ics calculation s. Molecular m ech an ics tries (o use experirn cn la I data to replace a priori com pu-tation, but in m an y situation s the experirn en tal data is n ot kn own and a parameter is missing. Collecting parameters, verification of their validity, and the relation ship of these molecular mechanics parameters to chemical and structural moieties are all important an d difficult topics. 

In our hydrogen molecule calculation in Section 2.4.1 the molecular orbitals were provided as input, but in most electronic structure calculations we are usually trying to calculate the molecular orbitals. How do we go about this We must remember that for many-body problems there is no correct solution we therefore require some means to decide whether one proposed wavefunction is better than another. Fortunately, the variation theorem provides us with a mechanism for answering this question. The theorem states that the... 

Fig. 9.25 If the leucine side chain interconverts rapidly between too conprmations then the NMR spectrum will he an average of them. With a traditional refinement this leads to a structure that sirmltaiieausly tries to satisfy all restraints and is at the top of the energy barrier between the two minima.

Bioinformatics is a relatively new discipline that is concerned with the collection, organisatic and analysis of biological data. It is beyond our scope to provide a comprehensive overvie of this discipline a few textbooks and reviews that serve this purpose are now available (s the suggestions for further reading). However, we will discuss some of the main rnethoc that are particularly useful when trying to predict the three-dimensional structure and fum tion of a protein. To help with this. Appendix 10.1 contains a limited selection of some of tf common abbreviations and acronyms used in bioinformatics and Appendix 10.2 lists sorr of the most widely used databases and other resources. 

The most ambitious approaches to the protein folding problem attempt to solve it from firs principles (ab initio). As such, the problem is to explore the coirformational space of th molecule in order to identify the most appropriate structure. The total number of possibl conformations is invariably very large and so it is usual to try to find only the very lowes energy structure(s). Some form of empirical force field is usually used, often augmente with a solvation term (see Section 11.12). The global minimum in the energy function i assumed to correspond to the naturally occurring structure of the molecule. 

Try quasi-Newton calculations starting from structures that look like what you expect the transition structure to be and that have no symmetry. This is a skill that improves as you become more familiar with the mechanisms involved, but requires some trial-and-error work even for the most experienced researchers. 

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