Volume 5, Issue 9 pp. 567-574
Article
Full Access

Re-evaluation of 1,4-Non-bonded interactions in molecular mechanics

Tsuneo Hirano

Tsuneo Hirano

Department of Synthetic Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

Search for more papers by this author
Takeshi Miyajima

Takeshi Miyajima

Department of Synthetic Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

Search for more papers by this author
Keisuke Imai

Keisuke Imai

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Unversity, Sapporo 060, Japan

On leave of absence from the Exploratory Research Laboratories, Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, 5–2–3 Tokodai, Tsukuba 30026, Japan.

Search for more papers by this author
Teruyo Fujiyoshi-yoneda

Teruyo Fujiyoshi-yoneda

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Unversity, Sapporo 060, Japan

Search for more papers by this author
Eiji Ōsawa

Corresponding Author

Eiji Ōsawa

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Unversity, Sapporo 060, Japan

Department of Knowledge-Based Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Tempaku-cho, Toyohashi 441, Japan===Search for more papers by this author
First published: September 1992
Citations: 1

Abstract

Analysis of the sum of two-centre terms obtained from semi-empirical molecular orbital calculations into atom-pair interactions revealed a unique behaviour of 1,4-non-bonded atom-pair interactions compared with 1,5- and longer range interactions. Explicit inclusion of a special 1,4-non-bonded interaction term in an MM2-like molecular mechanics scheme gave a test force field with good performance.

The full text of this article hosted at iucr.org is unavailable due to technical difficulties.