Assembling a Molecule within an Asymmetric Unit

This tutorial describes how to use the fragment functions within ORTEX to assemble a molecule. If you already have a broken molecule you can go to start of molecule assembly.
The broken molecule that is reassembled here is first created from the JH21 example as follows.

Start Oscail and set the Jobname to JH21 and the Current Directory to \ortex.
Run ORTEX and answer NO to Use Old INS, NO to Use Defaults, YES to Use Covalent Radii, on ORTEX Options check More Options and OK, on More Options check Push All Atoms inside CELL and OK. This will bring up the "broken picture".

Exit ORTEX and in Oscail select Use.LIST / Use LIST.INS.

This will change the Jobname to TEST. Click the Save as Ptest button and the Switch to Ptest button in sequence to get the jobname to switch to Ptest. (Overwrite any old Ptest job).

Run ORTEX and go into Edit Mode and select any atom in the largest fragment and click SEL.Frg.

On the dialog select Auto Assemble to Fragment and OK.

ORTEX in this case has found 4 atoms click OK and YES on the ADD Changes to .INS and YES to Use Defaults. Repeat this process a few more times to get the following.

The molecule is now fully assembled. However the water of crystallization is remote from O(1) of the triphenylarsine oxide. To move this back the second of the fragment functions will be used. First it is necessary to switch to atom mode and Search for contacts around O1.

The O2 (symmop 54501) makes a 2.864 contact with O1. Go back into Edit Mode and select the oxygen of the water of crystallization and click SEL.Frg.

On dialog39 set the symmop to 54501 and select Apply SYMM Op, OK  and defaults until the picture reappears. If you put in the H-bond you get the following.

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