It's a question I'd like answered, too! I've not found any obvious method, but have tried showing lone pairs as ghostly, transparent surfaces. It works pretty well. Send me an e-mail if you want me to send you an example. Ewen McLaughlin -----Original Message----- From: molvis-list-bounces at bioinformatics.org [mailto:molvis-list-bounces at bioinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Michael Bruist Sent: 09 December 2004 03:21 To: molvis-list at bioinformatics.org Subject: [Molvis-list] depicting lone pair electrons in rasmol or chime Can electron pairs be represented in chime or rasmol? I want to set up some simple molecules and depict the lone pairs. I was thinking of doing it with various sizes of overlapping "virtual" atoms in dots mode. Has anyone tried this? Mike Bruist Dr. Michael F. Bruist Associate Professor of Biochemistry Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Griffith Hall 144 University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA 19104-4495 Phone (Office & Voice Mail): (215) 596-8530 Department Phone: -8839 Department Fax: -8543 E-mail: m.bruist @usip.edu web page: http://tonga.usip.edu/bruist _______________________________________________ Molvis-list mailing list Molvis-list at bioinformatics.org https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list Swansea College Tycoch Road, Tycoch, Swansea. SA2 9EB website: http://www.swancoll.ac.uk ****************************************************************************************************************************************** The information contained in this message is intended for the addressee only and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee, please delete this message and notify the sender; you should not copy or distribute this message or disclose its contents to anyone without the express permission of the author who is the copyright holder. ******************************************************************************************************************************************