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From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
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Subject: Re:  CCL:Quantitative normal mode analysis




Hi,


> From chemistry-request@www.ccl.net  Fri Aug 28 20:11:19 1998
> From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@radio-msu.net>
> A lot of good software for visualizing IR vibrations exists today.
> However, movies seem insufficient in case of complex systems
> like cluster models with "adsorbed" molecules on them. I'd like
> to find out if there are any methods or software allowing assignment
> (approximate, of course) of normal modes to this or that group of
> atoms when given normal vibration forms. Thank you.

MacroModel allows specified atoms in a system to be "frozen".
the remaining atoms can still be handled at the level of
second derivatives;  these "feel" the effect of the frozen
atoms as an external, immutable field.

We can make a movie of the normal modes of the system;  if this
is done on a system with frozen atoms, only the ones that are
unfrozen will actually move.  There are ways to color the
system so that all the frozen atoms are, say, white.

I doubt that we're unique in this regard;  I should think
that any program that allows atoms to be frozen and also
allows the visualization of normal modes whould be able
to accomplish this.

	-P.

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