For POTEntial=HIGH, a restraining function for stereospecifically
assignable proton pairs is employed (
Habazettl et al., 1990).
This is useful for resolved but unassigned
peaks involving methylene protons.
The restraining function is given by
 |
(20.17) |
where

is the energy constant specified
by the SCALe statement.
Supppose that one observes

distance restraints involving
the two protons

and

of a particular unassigned pair; this means
that there are a total of

ASSIgn statements specified for
this particular unassigned pair (NCOUnt has to match

).
The

function is then the product of two

-dimensional functions, each
corresponding to one of the two possible stereospecific assignments:
 |
(20.18) |
 |
(20.19) |
where

and

are the distances from spin

to the unassigned spins

and

, respectively. When the
corresponding ASSIgn statements contain multiple atom selections,
averaged distances are computed; only center-averaging
is allowed in combination with the high dimensional potential.

and

are lower bounds for the distances between spin

and
spins

and

, respectively.

and

are upper bounds for the distances between spin

and
spins

and

, respectively.

and

are the lower bounds and upper bounds for the distance
difference

, respectively. These
upper and lower bounds are specified through a group of

assignment
statements:
...
where the

terms should be understood as atom selections.

are constants that
are determined internally, such that the barrier height between
the two minima of

is given by BHIG.
The functional forms of

and

are
similar to the soft-square
function (Section
20.3.4) with a linear
asymptote, except that the
switching region is symmetrically arranged:
 |
(20.20) |
where lim is set internally to 0.1.
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