Re: [Jmol-developers] Changing bond angle

[Robert H. <ha...@st...>]

no such script exists that I know of, but you can certainly write one
yourself -- atoms can be moved, measurements can be made...


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:26 AM, scamiolo <s.c...@un...> wrote:

>
> Hi there,
> I am preparing some video for teaching organic reaction mechanisms. I need
> to transform a sp3 hybridized carbon to sp2 hybridization. In facts a
> carbon
> atom is bound to 4 different groups with bond angles which are around 109°.
> One of the substituents leaves the molecule and the carbon it was attached
> to then became planar and all the remaining substituents goes co-planar and
> with angles of 120° between each other. What I would like to know is
> whether
> there is a script command which I can use to change the bond angles but in
> a
> way that all the atoms and groups attached to the substituents which change
> the angles will follow the residue they are attached to (hope it is clear)
> Thank you so much for the help you are going to provide me
>
> regards
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://old.nabble.com/Changing-bond-angle-tp35944848p35944848.html
> Sent from the jmol-developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99!
> 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8,
> SharePoint
> 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack
> includes
> Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13.
> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
> _______________________________________________
> Jmol-developers mailing list
> Jmo...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
>



-- 
Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr


If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.

-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900