Alkane Global Minima

Introduction

Energies calculated using the MM2* force field, as implemented on MacroModel version 5.5.
All energies are in kJ/mol

FormulaEnergyStructureFormulaEnergyStructure
C21H4449.05C26H5451.90
C22H4649.00C27H5653.27
C23H4850.42C28H5853.59
C24H5050.77C29H6054.71
C25H5251.90C30H6254.73

FormulaEnergyStructureFormulaEnergyStructure
C11H2428.11C16H3441.70
C12H2630.83C17H3644.41
C13H2833.54C18H3846.09
C14H3036.26C19H4047.55
C15H3238.98C20H4247.87

FormulaEnergyStructureFormulaEnergyStructure
CH40.00C6H1414.53
C2H63.41C7H1617.24
C3H86.27C8H1819.96
C4H109.09C9H2022.68
C5H1211.81C10H2225.39

The Alkane Conformation Hunt Competition

Questions on Longer Alkanes


Some of these structures were reported in:
J. M. Goodman J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1997, 37, 876-878.

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