Rapid conformation searching. Part 1. Diastereomeric compounds

Abstract

A procedure for rapidly searching the conformation space of diastereomers is presented and evaluated. In the examples considered, it finds the low energy conformations much more quickly than Monte-Carlo conformation searching. The computational cost of this procedure is substantially less than that of a Monte-Carlo, and the conformations that are found are biased towards low energy structures.

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