An example of a salt bridge
Note that oxygen atoms are shown in red, nitrogens are in blue, hydrogens
in white and carbon atoms are in light green. Only the hydrogen atoms bonded
to an oxygen or nitrogen are shown. This is fairly routine approximation
called the "united-atom" or "extended-atom" representation,
which is an option in many potential energy
functions. The hydrogen atoms which should be attached to carbons are
not explicitly represented but instead a small adjustment is made to the
LINK NEEDED van der Waals parameters of the carbon atom.
Oliver Smart
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1995, all rights reserved
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