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Among the vast number of applications recently developed in computer-assisted chemistry, the animation of chemical models is by no means the least important, as it allows one to perform realistic simulations of the properties of gases, liquids and solids. In this context, we report in the present paper two applications dealing with the construction and representation of computer-animated chemical models simulating the following processes: (i) the unimolecular rearrangement of piperidine, a cyclic amine which undergoes interconversion between two conformers; (ii) the harmonic dynamics of urea and L-alanine, two molecular crystals exhibiting independent motions along the normal modes of vibration.
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Weber, J., Fluekiger, P., Field, M.J. (1990). Computer-Animated Chemical Models. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D. (eds) Computer Animation ’90. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68296-7_2
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