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The Force Parameter File: Improper Torsions

The improper torsion energy of the torsion angle formed by the atoms i, j, k and l, Et-ijkl is:

Et-ijkl = Kt-ijkl[ Tijkl - To-ijkl ]2

where T is the torsion angle formed by the ordered atoms i, j, k and l, Kt is the force constant and T0 is the equilibrium angle.

The Improper Torsion record must appear only after the Atom Inclusion Types have been defined. This record must also appear after the Atom Inclusion Group record if Groups are used in this record. The Improper Torsion record has the following format:

:IMPROPER-TORSION

:Typei:Typej:Typek:Typel:

Kt-ijkl

T0-ijkl

:Typei:Typej:Typek:Typel:

Kt-ijkl

T0-ijkl

...

...

...

:END

The opening and closing keywords, like all keywords, begin with a colon and start on column one of their respective lines. The body of the data section may contain any number of lines. A line may be empty or may contain a list of four Atom Inclusion Type or Group names followed by two numbers. The names are written amongst five colons; the colons are not part of the names. The first number is the force constant in units of kcal/mol/radian2. The second number is the equilibrium torsion angle in degree. Following the second number may be text to serve as comment. The comment must be separated, by white space, from the second number.

An improper torsion type defined for Inclusion Atom Types :A:B:C:D: will serve equally well for an improper torsion of Types :D:C:B:A:. Only the first instance of a definition of an improper torsion type will be saved. Subsequent definitions for the same improper torsion type will be silently ignored. Therefore, definitions using Groups should be placed at the end of the list so that the generic definitions do not override the specific definitions.

The program Yup.fpf will expand Groups into their component Types, hash each quartet of Types into a numerical code, and sort the codes. This forms the index table. The force constants are converted to internal units used by YUP and with the equilibrium torsion angle these numbers form the data table. The index and data tables are written to the unformatted file: "Improper Torsion Constants".

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