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How can I update a map/mesh and coordinates in a PyMol session file?
I have a PyMol session file I was using to create my figures. It contains a protein and ligand broken into several groups of atoms with a fair bit of overlap. There are also a few meshes built from ...
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Single-molecule magnet with electrically-controlled permeability: How does the Titan Shield from Deus Ex work?
In a recent installment of Deus Ex game series there is an augmentation called "Titan Shield" (it has nothing to do with $\ce{Ti}$ element):
A neodymium skin underlay matrix built of nano-...
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How does the silver nucleate on glass in Tollen's reagent mirroring?
I'm trying to figure out how exactly does the silver start to grow during a mirroring with Tollen's reagent. I've made two pictures to illustrate how i see the nucleation/growth process of silver on ...
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Melting and boiling point trend in Group II
The following picture shows the melting and boiling point trends down group II elements.
I have added question marks where the variability in data was rather disturbing (over two hundred degrees ...
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Ambimodal transition states in some organic reaction pathways
In many computational studies, mechanisms appear to have so-called ambimodal transition states, i.e. a transition state which can lead to multiple products, in conflict to the common undergraduate ...
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Mechanistic Explanation of Circular Dichroism
I'm wondering if someone can give me a physically motivated reason for why chiral molecules interact with left and right circularly polarized light (LCP) (RCP) differently. Particularly, a quantum ...
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Synthesis Golf XI: Hyperielliptone HA
It has been a little over a year since the last synthesis-golf was posted. I have talked to orthocresol and would like to help revive the tag!
A full FAQ post has been written on chemistry.meta.SE, ...
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f-electrons in chemistry of heavy transition metals
In one lecture on recent MCR-X conference I was puzzled by a side-note "f-hole is critical to describe DoS of $\ce{IrO2}$ correctly." The context was DFT periodic plane-wave calculations with ...
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Manuals for a Cahn TG-171 Thermogravimetric Analyzer
Recently a Cahn TG-171 Thermogravimetric Analyzer was donated to my school. We did not get a service or user's manual with it, and some of it still needs to be put back together.
I have tried to ...
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Why is the endo product the major product in a Diels-Alder reaction?
I understand that the endo product is, at least in all cases in my textbook, the major product in a Diels-Alder reaction. However, I don't understand why this is the case.
The explanation in my ...
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Why are two three-membered rings preferred to a single five-membered ring in the reaction of a dihalide with alcoholic KOH?
The given answer is 1,1-dicyclopropylmethanone:
Step 1 is abstraction of acidic H by the strong base. Then, there's surely going to be anchimeric assistance. But there can be two places where the ...
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How to Calculate Transition Dipole Moment from Two Known Wavefunctions
I am interested in calculating the transition dipole moment (TDM) from the information from two wavefunctions of different states. This is somewhat similar to calculating the molecular dipole moment ...
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How to treat pressure in computational chemistry?
I have a reaction where a gas at high pressure and a solution with all kinds of species is involved. How do I take pressure correctly into account to get reasonable values for $G$?
Do I calculate ...
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In rovibrational spectra, when exactly is the Q branch forbidden?
I'm aware that the Q branch ($\Delta j = 0$) is usually not observed in rotational-vibrational spectra of diatomic molecules in the gas state, however, I've heard different things about when exactly ...
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Calculating Triplet-Triplet Spin-Orbit Coupling
According to the Q-Chem manual [1], the singlet-triplet spin-orbit couplings between a singlet excited state $I$ and a triplet excited state state $J$ is:
$$\langle\Phi_\text{singlet}^I|\hat{\mathrm H}...
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