Posts Tagged ‘lowest-energy folding’

What is the best way of folding a straight chain alkane?

Sunday, April 6th, 2014

In the previous post, I showed how modelling of unbranched alkenes depended on dispersion forces. When these are included, a bent (single-hairpin) form of C58H118 becomes lower in free energy than the fully extended linear form. Here I try to optimise these dispersion forces by adding further folds to see what happens.

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