aromatic bond type

3D (x,y,z) coordinates can also be stored for each atom and used to display the conformation of a molecule. These coordinates may be determined experimentally (typically via x-ray crystallography), or calculated (using force-fields, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics or composite models such as docking). Understanding a molecule's actual shape, whether it be in solution, in a vacuum, or in the binding site of a protein, opens up a whole new domain of computational chemistry. Most molecules have some flexibility, and even if a given conformation is the most stable, there are often a number of competing shapes to consider. Knowing how a particular set of coordinates was determined is crucial to making intelligent use of it for cheminformatics purposes.

A substructure search query can be matchedagainst a connection table atom-by-atom but the so-called subgraph isomorphism algorithm that is usedin substructure search to compare one graph againstanother is slow and complex and it is likely that theremay be many mismatches before a hit is found. Asubstructure search can be carried out faster if an ini-tial screening stage is carried out to filter out quicklystructures that could not possibly be matches. A com-mon method is to use substructure fragments as thefilter.

TheMolecular Structure Encoding System, MOSES, fromMolecular Networks (Erlangen, Germany) is a laterdevelopment from Gasteiger’s team.

Of course, chemical structuresand topological graphs are not entirely equivalent: aconnection table is akin to a description of a singlevalence bond structure and does not take account,for example, of delocalized bonds.

WIREs Computational Molecular Science Representation of chemical structuresFIGURE 3|A redundant connection table

Of course, chemical structuresand topological graphs are not entirely equivalent: aconnection table is akin to a description of a singlevalence bond structure and does not take account,for example, of delocalized bonds.Alternative approaches have been suggested.

The Morgan algorithm identifies atoms basedon an extended connectivity value. The atom withthe highest value becomes the first atom in the name,and its neighbors are then listed in descending or-der. Ties are resolved based on additional parame-ters, for example, bond order and atomic number.The original Morgan algorithm did not handle stere-ochemistry; the stereochemically unique naming algo-rithm [stereochemical extension of Morgan algorithm(SEMA)] was developed to handle stereoisomers

Another notation, called rep-resentation of structure diagram arranged linearly(ROSDAL),52,53was written to transfer structuresquickly in a compact form over a network to enablesearching of the Beilstein database online.54ROSDALis still supported by InfoChem, and by Elsevier (Am-sterdam, The Netherlands) in Reaxys (vide infra) andthe Beilstein CrossFire structure editor.

Chirality

Bonds Block

Resonance Run-of-the mill delocalization presents some of the same problems as aromaticity, but there is no conventional label for (non-aromatic) delocalized electrons, such as the delocalized negative charge and pi system in benzoate (VII and VIII). The connection tables will simply represent one resonance structure or another.

To make things even more complicated, software may account for the chirality of a stereocenter atom when generating a MOL file but ignore it when rendering a MOL file!

Each of the two Kekulé structures for the benzene ring shows up as a different set of single and double bonds (MOL I, MOL IV). The Bond Tables are different: The MOL file format uses the number 4 to indicate bonds that are explicitly labeled as aromatic (MOL V). This has the advantage of differentiating aromatic bonds from single and double bonds without requiring the chemist to write a script to identify and label the alternating single and double bonds of a Kekulé structure.

Our atom table will consist of two fields: one an index number identifying the atom we’re talking about, one indicating atom type (i.e. C, H, O, N, etc.). Our bond table will consist of three fields: two indicating the two atoms that the bond connects, and one indicating the bond order (1=single, 2=double, 3=triple).

As an example, take isopropyl alcohol. SCT I is a connection table representing this compound – or, more specifically, representing this structural formula. Connection tables are not necessarily unique We could draw up other tables of atoms and bonds that represent this compound as well: for example, SCT II and SCT III

As a starting point, this section will introduce a simplified form of connection table, which we’ll call an “SCT”. This SCT does not correspond directly to any existing file format (at least as far as we know!). Rather, it is a convenient model that we will use just for the purpose of this demonstration.

The MOL file format uses the number 4 to indicate bonds that are explicitly labeled as aromatic (MOL V). This has the advantage of differentiating aromatic bonds from single and double bonds without requiring the chemist to write a script to identify and label the alternating single and double bonds of a Kekulé structure. However, some software may not be built to handle this convention. (You might even run into cases in which it’s interpreted as a quadruple bond!)

these additional data, coupled with the additional metadata recorded in the SDF format, makes this file format ideal

a key advantage of the Molfile and SDF formats is the inclusion of geomet-ric information regarding the spatial arrangement of atoms in three-dimen-sional space.

The chemical formula is straightforward enough, but the connectivity and hydrogen sections require some explanation. The connectivity layer describes chains and branches –for example in the above Propene example, atom 1 is bonded to atom 3, which is bonded to atom 2. In the final example, we have branching, as represented by paren

the full stop (“.”) which overrides the implicit single bond between adjacent atoms we can make some exotic variants on SMILES:C1C.CC1ButaneC1CC1.C2CC2Cyclohexane

An InChI Keycan also be generated for a compound. This is completely separate from the InChI linear notation, and is used to provide an identifier for a compound that is particularly suitable for use in Web search engine

Systematic name

n InChI Keycan also be generated for a compound. This is completely separate from the InChI linear notation, and is used to provide an identifier for a compound that is particularly suitable for use in Web search engines. It is an ASCII character string based on a hashing of the InChI linear notation, but is of fixed length and uses only characters not normally conside

Fortunately, this can be done with the Morgan Algorithm18.In this algorithm, each atom is given a "connectivity value" reflecting how many atoms it is connecte

All InChIs currently are prefixed with “INCHI=”. Following this, a designator of “1/” or “1S/” indicates whether the InChI is non-standard or standard (i.e. with fixed standardized options in the software)

We would need to add an additional field to the atom and/or bond table to handle chirality (SCT VI, VII). We could do so either in a chemically sophisticated way, annotating the atom property, in a chemically-naive translation of a diagram feature, annotating the bond configuration, or both.

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Element Use

Supervised learning