Window's MOPAC GRID viewer



 Jeff Gosper and Conor McMenamin are pleased to announce the beta-test
 release of a Window's program, named 'GRID'. The program enables the
 results from GRID MOPAC calculations to be analysed and viewed.
 These GRID calculations involve the systematic variation of two
 geometrical parameters to produce an array of chemical structures.
 GRID has been developed by Jeff Gosper and Conor McMenamin as part
 of one of Conor's final year undergraduate research project.
 The program allows various types of 2D-'contour' maps (including
 'Feature' maps) to be viewed. These maps are 'live' in that the
 user can then select one, or more, points on
 the map and view the corresponding structure(s) in 3D (NB:
 this option requires Re_View, Raswin, or similar viewing software
 to be installed on your computer). The program enables geometrical
 and energy trends to be explored, such that saddle point, minima,
 etc can the be readily located and MOPAC input files
 constructed for further optimization/exploration.
 The beta test version of GRID is being freely distributed from
 Re_View's WWW home page:
 http://http1.brunel.ac.uk:8080/depts/chem/ch241s/re_view/re_view.htm
 We welcome any comments, suggestions, bug reports, etc
 (as Conor would like to quote some comments in his thesis).
 Thanks
 Jeff Gosper