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Molecular mechanics calculations on carbonyl compounds. II. Open‐chain ketones
Author(s) -
Langley Charles H.,
Lii JennHuei,
Allinger Norman L.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of computational chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.907
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1096-987X
pISSN - 0192-8651
DOI - 10.1002/jcc.1099
Subject(s) - moment of inertia , dipole , molecular mechanics , chemistry , force field (fiction) , computational chemistry , root mean square , molecular dynamics , organic chemistry , physics , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics
Open‐chain aliphatic ketones were studied with the molecular mechanics (MM4) force field. A total of seven compounds were examined. Structures were well fit, including moments of inertia. Rotational barriers, vibrational spectra, and dipole moments were also well fit. The overall root mean square errors for MM3 and MM4 were 0.27 and 0.18%, respectively, for the six moments of inertia (known experimentally for two compounds) and 31 and 20 cm −1 , respectively, for the vibrational frequencies (over 99 weighted modes). © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Comput Chem 22: 1426–1450, 2001