Welcome to ChemCoord’s documentation!

Features

  • Molecules are reliably transformed between cartesian space and non redundant internal coordinates (Zmatrices). Dummy atoms are inserted and removed automatically on the fly if necessary.
  • The created Zmatrix is not only a structure expressed in internal coordinates, it is a “chemical” Zmatrix. “Chemical” Zmatrix means, that e.g. distances are along bonds or dihedrals are defined as they are drawn in chemical textbooks (Newman projections).
  • Analytical gradients for the transformations between the different coordinate systems are implemented.
  • Performance intensive functions/methods are implemented with Fortran/C like speed using numba.
  • Geometries may be defined with symbolic expressions using sympy
  • Built on top of pandas with very similar syntax. This allows for example distinct label or row based indexing.
  • It derived from my own work and I heavily use it during the day. So all functions are tested and tailored around the work flow in theoretical chemistry.
  • The classes are safe to inherit from and can easily be customized.
  • It is a python module ;)