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. 2011 Mar 16;3:8. doi: 10.1186/1758-2946-3-8

Table 1.

Relationship between the number of rotatable bonds, the number of conformers generated and the minimum RMSD to the crystal structure.

Rotatable
bonds
Number of
molecules
Total Conformers
(median)
Low Energy
Conformers (median)
Diverse Conformers (median) Minimum RMSD to crystal (median)

0.5 Å 1.0 Å 1.5 Å 2.0 Å 3.0 Å 0.5 Å 1.0 Å 1.5 Å 2.0 Å 3.0 Å
1 214 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 0.18 0.40 0.45 0.45 0.45

2 97 36 25 8 2 1 1 1 0.34 0.54 0.74 0.80 0.80

3 216 72 44 19 4 1 1 1 0.39 0.70 1.02 1.06 1.06

4 143 1296 582 96 9 2 1 1 0.52 0.80 1.07 1.14 1.24

5 86 3024 1065 189 24 4 1 1 0.60 0.82 1.14 1.31 1.34

6 114 186624 24317 2953 192 24 5 1 0.71 0.90 1.21 1.49 1.78

7 69 34992 10679 1402 139 17 4 1 0.66 0.83 1.14 1.44 1.73

The 61 molecules with 8 or more rotatable bonds are omitted.