CONF Instruction

CONF atomnames

The named atoms define a chain of at least four atoms. CONF generates a list of torsion angles with esd's for all torsion angles defined by this chain. CONF is often used to specify an n-membered ring, in which case the first three atoms must be named twice (n+3 names in all). If no atoms are specified, all possible torsion angles not involving hydrogen are generated from the connectivity array. The torsion angles generated by CONF are also written to the .CIF file if an ACTA instruction is present. All torsion angles calculated by SHELXL_93 follow the conventions defined by F.H. Allen and D. Rogers, Acta Cryst., B25 (1969) 1326.