On the irrelevance of electrostatics for the crystal structures and polymorphism of long even n-alkanes

Journal of Computational Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 365-370

  Van de Streek, Jacco ^a,c   Verwer, Paul ^a,b   Bennema, Piet ^a   Vlieg, Elias ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CAMBRIDGE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystal structures; Electrostatics; Force fields; N alkanes; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ALKANE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRICITY;

ALKANES; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROSTATICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION;

EID: 0036470554     PISSN: 01928651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.10028     Document Type: Article

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