MOLSYM

Print details of the working in MOLSYM, the routine that works out the symmetry point-group of the molecule.  Point-groups are identified using a set of 20 integers.  These are 0 if the associated operation is absent, 1 if the operation is present.  The operations are:

Operation

Number

Operation
1 C2(X)
2 C2(Y)
3 C2(Z)
4 Σ(XY)
5 Σ(XZ)
6 Σ(YZ)
7 inversion
8 C3
9 C4
10 C3
11 C6
12 C3
13 C8
14 S4
15 S6
16 S8
17 S10
18 S12
19 1 if cubic
20 1 if infinite
A tetrahedral molecule, for example, would have the pattern: 
 
Operation  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Value 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0

This indicates that operations C2(Z), Σ(XZ), Σ(YZ), C3, and S4 are present, and that the system is cubic.

The pattern of operations is unique for each point-group, and is used by subroutine cartab to identify the point-group.