[gmx-users] octane

[David van der Spoel]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Anton Feenstra wrote:

>Hi,
>
>
>I'm wondering whether octane would fall in the 'small hydrocarbon'
>regime, where the standard GROMOS97 forcefield still holds, or
>whether I could better use Erik Lindahl's ffG43a2x 'extended' version
>for long hydrocarbons... Any opinions on this?
Test it!

I've recently done some octanol simulations with Peter Tieleman's 
parameters, and found that for bulk octanol the density is not correct 
(5-6% off). This was with Ryckaert Bellemans dihedrals.

-- 
Groeten, David.
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