From chemistry-request@ccl.net Tue Jun 25 01:56:20 1991 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 00:56 EDT From: "Scott Le Grand" Subject: Conformational Entropy To: chemistry@ccl.net Status: R Is there any way to crudely estimate the conformational entropy of a particular conformation of a molecule that does not involve the O(n3) matrix inversion of the Hessian matrix of the potential energy function? I'm unfortunately betting that there isn't... Scott Le Grand