CCL:G: Ring pseudorotation

["Paulo E. Abreu" <paulo.abreu-#-ci.uc.pt>]

Hiya,

I cant remember when I read the term "automagically" for the first time, but I am sure it was a long time ago.

But I always associate it with Arthur C. Clarke's third law : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

(quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws)

Here they cite printed works which contain the word:

 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:automagical#English

and the first reference dates back to 1987.

-- 
Paulo E. Abreu
Professor Auxiliar
Departamento de Química
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Portugal

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Daniel Fernando Coimbra danielfcoimbra_+_gmail.com <owner-chemistry[#]ccl.net> wrote:

Sent to CCL by: Daniel Fernando Coimbra [danielfcoimbra*|*gmail.com]
As far as I know this term was first used by the authors of the (now discontinued) brazillian Linux distribution Kurumin. They created sets of BASH scripts that automated lots of installation proccess so that a novice user could configure non-trivial hardware with just a click on a menu item. There were said to so "automagicamente" (automagically), as it looked even easyer than simpler automatic task available at the time.

Em 08-03-2012 11:40, John McKelvey jmmckel%%gmail.com escreveu:

I do not know how to answer this query but I do find something quite
interesting in the use of the word 'automagic.'  This could be a
delightful word if deliberately used, even if simply a typo..  Either
way it is a delightful coinage of a very useful word.

John McKelvey

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Alcides Simao alsimao^^^gmail.com

<http://gmail.com> <owner-chemistry%%ccl.net

<mailto:owner-chemistry%%ccl.net>> wrote:

   Hello all!

   I'm trying to study a pseudorotation of a substituted pyrrolidine
   ring using GAUSSIAN 03. Although literature exists on the theme, I
   haven't come across any input example of it,so I'm trying to compute
   it in a way that I dislike particulary, which is to set a plane made
   of four atoms, and set one of the atoms off-plane, which is quite
   unrealistic. I would ask if anyone could kindly tell me what is your
   way of computing pseudorotation, and if you happen to have an
   'automagic' way of doing so, if you would be so kind as to share it.

   Best,

   Alcides




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Daniel Fernando Coimbra
Grupo de Estrutura Eletrônica Molecular
Departamento de Química
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina



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