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Chem3D Users Manual - CambridgeSoft

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To complete this tutorial, you will need to adjust a<br />

number of surface settings. For convenience,<br />

activate the Surfaces toolbar.<br />

5. On the Surfaces toolbar, choose Isocharge.<br />

The Isocharge tool appears.<br />

1. From the View menu, point to Toolbars, and<br />

choose Surfaces.<br />

The Surfaces toolbar appears. Drag it into the<br />

workspace for added convenience.<br />

Surface<br />

Solvent radius<br />

Display mode<br />

Color Mapping<br />

6. Set the isocharge to 0.0050. (The number in the<br />

middle is the current setting.)<br />

NOTE: Isovalues are used to generate the surface.<br />

You can adjust this value to get the display you want.<br />

The illustration below was made with the setting of<br />

0.0050.<br />

Surface color<br />

Resolution<br />

HOMO/LUMO selection<br />

Isovalues<br />

Color A<br />

Color B<br />

2. On the Surfaces toolbar, point to Surface and<br />

select Total Charge Density.<br />

The icon changes to denote the surface<br />

selected.<br />

3. On the Surfaces toolbar, point to Display Mode<br />

and choose Translucent.<br />

4. On the Surfaces toolbar, point to Color<br />

Mapping and choose Spin Density.<br />

Most of the surface is grey, indicating that there is<br />

no contribution to it from unpaired electrons. The<br />

areas of red centered over each of the terminal<br />

carbons is a visual representation of the expected<br />

delocalization of the radical—there is some radical<br />

character simultaneously on both of these carbons.<br />

Now, hide this surface:<br />

• Click the Surfaces icon to toggle the surface off.<br />

ChemOffice 2005/<strong>Chem3D</strong> <strong>Chem3D</strong> Tutorials • 51<br />

Tutorial 9: Mapping Properties onto Surfaces

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