Xavier Prat-Resina wrote:

>Jmol-users,
>
>Is there a way to tell Jmol to calculate automagically the
>multiple bonds and showing the corresponding lone pair lobes?
>(my molecule files lack the multiple bond information)
>As far as I know those two properties are not related in Jmol.
>
>I've been using "connect aromatic modify;calculate aromatic"
>for double bonds, but then I have to add the lone pairs manually
>and accordingly.
>  
>
no, no lone pairs. You will have to add those yourself.

>Is there a way to do that with triple bonds by the way? e.g. N2
>
>  
>
no

>For example.
>in CO3(2-) there is (in the most stable resonance form) one
>double bond C=O and two single bonds. So the number of
>lone pairs is different in different oxygens.
>
>  
>
you will have to place them yourself.

>Thanks
>
>Xavier
>
>  
>


-- 
Robert M. Hanson
Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr


If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get. 

-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900



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