From chemistry-request@ccl.net Wed Aug  5 14:09:36 1992
Date: 5 Aug 92   10:08 LCL
From: PA13808%UTKVM1.BITNET@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU
To: CHEMISTRY@ccl.net
Subject: BITNET mail follows
Status: R

     MM2 FORCEFIELD PARAMETER DATABOOK
     I deduce from some of the recent mail that there is a need for
   a listing of molecular parameters. A flier with the above title
   describes a book meeting some of these requests appeared in my mail re
  cently.It contains "more than 250 MM2 Force field parameters calculated
 and compiled at the Tsukuba Research Center of Mitsubishi Petrochemical
 company". It contains nearly 500 pages and has a full discussion of how
 the parameters were obtained. It looks as if it discusses literature
 valuesin some detail discussing the estimation process and degree of
 approximation. I would imagine this book would be invaluable to workers
 in this field.
   Now for the bad news. The book is published by MARTECH ,541 Tokyo Club
 bldg. Kasumigaseki 3-2-6 Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100 Japan.and is priced at
 ONE THOUSAND($1000.00)USA DOLLARS.Also it has a condition ofsale that it
 not be"lent,hired out or otherwise lent out or otherwise circulated "
   Oh yes reading the fine print I see that when publishing work using
 parameters from the book "He(she) shall not make public the parameter it
 itself"(More on that later).
     Well I just thought that if your are rich and/or your time is a
 valuable commodity you might like to know about it.
    Since it would appear the book quotes data from the literature I
would like to hear from anyone who has given written permission to THEM
to publish their lit data in such a book.The copywrite system works
both ways. JEB(PA13808 at UTKVM1)

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