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Example 4<br />

Calculating the Dipole<br />

Moment of meta-<br />

Nitrotoluene<br />

Create a model of m-nitrotoluene:<br />

1. From the File menu, choose New Model.<br />

2. Click the Text Building tool.<br />

3. Click in the model window.<br />

A text box appears.<br />

4. Type PhCH3 and press the Enter key.<br />

A model of toluene appears. Reorient the<br />

model using the Trackball tool until it is<br />

oriented like the model shown in step 8.<br />

5. From the Edit menu, choose Select All.<br />

6. Select Show Serial Numbers from the<br />

Model Display submenu of the View menu.<br />

NOTE: Show Serial Numbers is a toggle. When it is<br />

selected, the number 1 displays in a frame.<br />

7. With the Text Building tool, click H(11), and<br />

then type NO2 in the text box that appears.<br />

8. Press the Enter key.<br />

A model of m-nitrotoluene appears.<br />

Use MOPAC to find the dipole moment:<br />

1. From the MOPAC Interface submenu of the<br />

Calculations menu, choose Minimize<br />

Energy.<br />

2. On the Theory tab, choose AM1.<br />

3. On the Property tab, select Polarizabilities.<br />

4. Click Run.<br />

The following table is a subset of the results<br />

showing the effect of an applied electric field on the<br />

first order polarizability for m-nitrotoluene.<br />

Applied<br />

field (eV) alpha xx alpha yy alpha zz<br />

0.000000 108.23400 97.70127 18.82380<br />

0.250000 108.40480 97.82726 18.83561<br />

0.500000 108.91847 98.20891 18.86943<br />

The following table contains the keywords<br />

automatically sent to MOPAC and those you can<br />

use to affect this property.<br />

Keyword<br />

Description<br />

POLAR<br />

(E=(n1, n2, n3))<br />

Automatically sent to MOPAC<br />

to specify the polarizablity<br />

routine. n is the starting voltage<br />

in eV. The default value is<br />

E = 1.0.<br />

You can reenter the keyword<br />

and another value for n to<br />

change the starting voltage.<br />

ChemOffice 2005/<strong>Chem3D</strong> MOPAC Computations • 193<br />

Computing Properties

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