Hello, Van der Waals Forces: A Handbook for Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, and Physicists by V. Adrian Parsegian
Give it a try! Artem > Hi CCP4ers > > Perhaps I am hashing over old news.....but > > We are having a discussion about Van Der Waals contacts and effective > contacts i.e. the "real distance" of a VDW bump between say a CH and a > CH group which sometimes is described as between a C and a C as i.e. 2x > 1.6A and ending about 4A but not including hydrogen. > > Some programs list contacts, to say a ligand, as far as 6A apart and > some of the simulation programs use that distance too for contacts for > protein protein interactions. > > Does anyone know of a good paper that discusses the effective distance > or has a comment on where a VDW force may begin and end or it's > effective distance - though some say it never truly ends just > approaches zero... > > > G > > > > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains > information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, > New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known > outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or > MSD and in Japan, as Banyu - direct contact information for affiliates is > available at http://www.merck.com/contact/contacts.html) that may be > confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this > message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this > message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and > then delete it from your system. >
