A Chemists Fundamental Questions

This is the domain of establishing Structure-Property or Structure-Activity Relationships (SPR or SAR), or even of finding such relationships in a quantitative manner (QSPR or QSAR). 

This is the domain of synthesis design, and the planning of chemical reactions. 

This is the domain of structure elucidation, which, for most part, utilizes information from a battery of spectra (infrared, NMR, and mass spectra). 

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