Re: CCL:Wilson Out-Of-Plane Coordinate

From: "Peter Shenkin" <shenkin { *at * } still3.chem.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: CCL:Wilson Out-Of-Plane Coordinate
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:42:07 -0400

 On Sep 10,  4:29pm, Stefan Beyreuther wrote:
 > Subject: CCL:Wilson Out-Of-Plane Coordinate
 > 	Could someone explain me what exactly the Wilson out-of-plane
 > 	coordinate is?
 If A, B and C are connected to a common "central" atom, D, then
 the angle that the AD vector makes with the BDC plane is a Wilson
 angle.  The angle that the BD vector makes with the ADC plane
 is another one.
 MMFF (Tom Halgren's Merck Molecular Force Field) also uses these.
 	-P.
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