From DSMITH@uoft02.utoledo.edu  Mon May 17 04:21:11 1993
Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 09:21:11 -0500 (EST)
From: "DR. DOUGLAS A. SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO" <DSMITH@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
Subject: Re: semi.QM energy of electron/proton??
To: moret@far.ruu.nl
Message-Id: <01GY9Z3W7O1A0090QS@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU>


In regards to the semiempirical energies (more correctly, heats of formation)
of the proton and the electron, I seem to recall a value of around 310 kcal/
mol for a proton.  However, I ran the simple, single point calculation
(using HyperChem) of H+ with the AM1 parameters and get a value of
262.8032.  You should try this with MOPAC 6 (I would, but I am sitting at
my PC so Hyperchem, not MOPAC, is readily available).

I cannot do the same for a single electron with Hyperchem.  Try using MOPAC,
define a dummy atom, set the charge on the system equal to -1 and the 
multiplicity as a doublet, and see what happens.

Doug

Douglas A. Smith
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
The University of Toledo
Toledo, OH  43606-3390

voice    419-537-2116
fax      419-537-4033
email    dsmith@uoft02.utoledo.edu


From toni@athe.wustl.edu  Mon May 17 06:28:55 1993
Date: Mon, 17 May 93 11:28:55 CDT
From: toni@athe.wustl.edu (Toni Kazic)
Message-Id: <9305171628.AA13853@athe.ibc>
To: richard@technology.com
Subject: help needed



Walter,

I am working on biochemical and physiological kinetics, so this may be only
marginally relevant to you.  We have worked so far on essentially only
representations, not stocking the database with lots of facts.



1.     Name: Toni Kazic

2.     Company:  Institute for Biomedical  Computing, Washington University

3.     Telephone number:  314-362-3121

3.a    E-mail:  toni@athe.wustl.edu

4.     Chemical kinetics application:  biochemical database

5.     Are the rate coefficients you use

 a.    in Arrhenius form:  A~(T/To)B~exp(-C/T)?

 b.    in another form?  (Please specify):  enzymological constants as in the
literature (these are quasi-standardized)

6.     Does your database contain references for the source of
        the coefficients?  Yes

7.     What is the maximum number of reactants
        (including catalysts) in a reaction?  No limit

8.     What is the maximum number of products
        (including catalysts) in a reaction?  No limit

9.     Please attach a very short sample printout
        of your database (we just want to know the FORTRAN format).

Not FORTRAN, Prolog.  I can send you the separate Prolog facts or a PostScript
pretty printout.

From richard@TC.Cornell.EDU  Mon May 17 08:31:18 1993
Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 12:31:18 -0400
From: Richard Gillilan <richard@TC.Cornell.EDU>
Message-Id: <199305171631.AA00276@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU>
To: chemistry@ccl.net
Subject: analysis of diffaction data


Is anybody out there familiar with the program
MOSCO (part of ccp4 from Darsbury)?

Where can I get information about it?

Is source code available and at what cost?

Are there any other similar codes that 
are better?


Thanks



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From jle@world.std.com  Mon May 17 10:30:42 1993
Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 14:30:42 -0400
From: jle@world.std.com (Joe M Leonard)
Message-Id: <199305171830.AA05935@world.std.com>
To: chemistry@ccl.net
Subject: Seeking octanol data...


Folks,
	I'm interested in getting a reference or three containing
either solvation data for stuff in octanol, or better, delta-G
solvation of stuff in octanol.  Anybody with a pointer would be
appreciated - this is for a cohort w/o net access...

Joe Leonard
jle@world.std.com

From mail Mon May 17 14:03:05 1993
Date: 	Mon, 17 May 1993 13:56:52 -0400
From: hyper!guo (Yufei Guo)
Message-Id: <9305171756.AA14728@hyper.hyper.com>
To: "DR. DOUGLAS A. SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO" <DSMITH@uoft02.utoledo.edu>,
Subject: Re: semi.QM energy of electron/proton??

Hi Dr. Smith,

I think you mis-interpreted a HyperChem result in your recent email to the
OSC exploder.  You wrote:

> In regards to the semiempirical energies (more correctly, heats of formation)
> of the proton and the electron, I seem to recall a value of around 310 kcal/
> mol for a proton.  However, I ran the simple, single point calculation
> (using HyperChem) of H+ with the AM1 parameters and get a value of
> 262.8032.  You should try this with MOPAC 6 (I would, but I am sitting at
> my PC so Hyperchem, not MOPAC, is readily available).

I have run the calculation with HyperChem and MOPAC 6.0.  Both give the same
answer for the heat of formation for H+ of 314.9 kcal/mol.

The number of 262.8032 that you got (presumably from the status line) is the
*binding* energy, not the heat of formation (which is in the log file or
available via script or DDE).  The binding energy is the total system energy
minus the sum of the energies of the isolated atoms (not ions), which in this
case is the difference in energy between the hydrogen atom and cation.

> Doug
> 
> Douglas A. Smith
> Assistant Professor of Chemistry
> The University of Toledo
> Toledo, OH  43606-3390
> 
> voice    419-537-2116
> fax      419-537-4033
> email    dsmith@uoft02.utoledo.edu

Hope this helps,

Yufei Guo

From raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu  Mon May 17 13:22:16 1993
From: raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu (C.S.RAMAN)
Message-Id: <9305172322.AA14653@bioc01.uthscsa.edu>
Subject: Octanol
To: chemistry@ccl.net
Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 18:22:16 -0500 (CDT)


> either solvation data for stuff in octanol, or better, delta-G
> solvation of stuff in octanol.  Anybody with a pointer would be
> appreciated - this is for a cohort w/o net access...
> 
What is "stuff" supposed to mean here? I can give you citations for
free energies of transfer in Octanol and Water for various amino acids.
That work appeared in the early '70s by Nozaki and Tanford.  The papers
were in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.  If this is what you are
looking for let me know and I can include other references as well.


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From aes@stan.xx.swin.OZ.AU  Tue May 18 07:20:33 1993
From: aes@stan.xx.swin.OZ.AU (LOHNING A)
Message-Id: <9305180220.AA24196@stan.xx.swin.OZ.AU>
Subject: MOPAC6.0/Selenium
To: CHEMISTRY@ccl.net
Date: Tue, 18 May 93 12:20:33 EST




Dear Chemnetters,

I am trying to do some molecular orbital calculations (using     
MOPAC 6.0 & PM3 parameters) on  a selenium-containing amino
acid residue.  For some reason there's a problem accessing
the new Selenium parameters.  I was wondering if 
anyone else is working with selenium in this context and/or
could suggest a course of action for me.

I would greatly appreciate any help at all & thank you in
advance.

    Anna  Salinas 
C/- Chemistry Department
    Swinburne University of Technology
    John Street  Hawthorn   3123 
    Victoria     Australia
    Tel:  (03) 819 8911

    E-mail:  aes@stan.xx.swin.oz.au       

From raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu  Mon May 17 17:39:21 1993
From: raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu (C.S.RAMAN)
Message-Id: <9305180339.AA14702@bioc01.uthscsa.edu>
Subject: Re: Seeking octanol data...
To: jle@world.std.com (Joe M Leonard)
Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 22:39:21 -0500 (CDT)


Joe,

Here are some of the recent references in this area that might help you:

1.  Pharmaceutical Research [1992] 09,504-514  "Amino acid side chain
contributions to the free energy of transfer of tripeptides from water
to Octanol"

2.  Thermochimica Acta [1989] 152, 463  Thermodynamic titration method
for the estimation of energetics of transfer of very lipophilic solutes
from water to Octanol"

3.  Biochemistry [1991] 30, 9686 "Extracting free energies from transfer
data

4.  J.  Phys. Soc. Jpn. [1991]  60, 2783 "Hydration thermodynamics of
Biomolecules: transfer free energies of amino acid and derivatives"

5.  ibid. [1991] 60, 330 " similar title ....... "


The Original Nozaki and Tanford papers:

a.  J. Biol. Chem. [1971] 246, 2211
b.  ibid. [1970] 245, 1648


You should have no trouble finding additional citations from the
bibliography provided by the above mentioned references!

Hope this helps!

-raman
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                                                        -E.Rutherford
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