VEC
Entered: Fri Dec 17 2010
Operating systems: MS-DOS
Type: Binary
Languages: Fortran
Distribution: Shareware
Application fields: Structure; Other
Bibliography: Elements of Inorganic Structural Chemistry. Selected efforts to predict structural features, 2nd Engl. ed. by E. Parthé
Description: VEC is a DOS program that comes with the book. Makes predictions for the most probable structural features of valence compounds (Zintl phases). For a given chemical formula crystal chemical, parameters are calculated which are used to predict the average number of homonuclear bonds. Assuming that a structure with an anionic or neutral tetrahedron complex exists, these parameters serve also to select the probable base tetrahedra with which the complex can be constructed. On the screen are shown schematic drawings of the selected base tetrahedra.