[Computer study of intramolecular ordering in octadecatriene chains with cis-double bonds]
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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
1Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russia.
Abstract:
Computer simulations of isolated unperturbed hydrocarbon molecules of C18:3 with methylene-interrupted cis double bonds were carried out using the Monte Carlo method based on the continuum model. A molecule-fixed coordinate system (with the axes along the principal axes of inertia of each molecule conformation) was used. The orientation distribution functions rho and order parameters S for C-H and C-C bonds relative to the maximum molecule span axis were calculated. It was shown that the widths of functions rho (factor of bond "fluctuations") are dependent on the chemical structure and position of the segment, fluctuations increase from the centre of the chain towards the terminals, all things being equal. The orientation distributions rho of C-H bonds flanking the double bond are the most narrow, the functions rho of CH2-groups located between two double bonds are the widest. It turned out that order parameter -SCH profiles of isolated chains of C18:3 include both the positive and negative values. The parameter SCC odd-even effect in unsaturated molecules of such structure changes the sign between double bonds.
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