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Substances A and B combine to make substance C. Substances C and B combine to make substance D. Place the letter of each substance next to the symbol that best describes its atomic or molecular structure ... 

Chemical symbols are used to describe atomic and molecular structures and how they appear in chemical changes. A chemical equation describes a chemical change. The chemical symbols in the equation show the atomic structures of the reactants and products. Hieroglyphs are merely pictures and do not show atomic and molecular structure. 

Advanced scientific concepts, such as abstract chemical symbols, theoretical concepts of atomic and molecular structure, and human anatomy etc. have not been included in the curriculum because these concepts are beyond the students direct interaction with the environment. 

Structural formulas serve a key role as devices to facilitate communication of chemical information, but it is important to recognize at the outset that the relationship of a structural formula to molecular structure is a symbolic one. The current system of structural formulas arose largely as a result of chemistry done in the last half of the nineteenth century. Elemental analyses, interrelation of various compounds, and systematic investigation of the reactivity of various functional groups permitted organic chemists to deduce correctly much information about molecular structure. For many molecules, it became possible to draw conclusions as to which atoms were directly connected. Lines drawn between atoms were used to represent direct connections or bonds. These structural deductions predated modern concepts of atomic and molecular structure and of the nature of the forces that bind atoms. With the advent of quantum mechanics and new experimental techniques for accurate determination of such basic structural parameters as bond lengths and bond... 

Organic chemists have found a way to draw complex molecular structures in a very simple way, by not showing the C and H atoms explicitly. A line structure represents a chain of carbon atoms by a zigzag line, where each short line indicates a bond and the end of each line represents a carbon atom. Atoms other than C and H are shown by their symbols. Double bonds are represented by a double line and triple bonds by a triple line. Because carbon almost always forms four bonds in organic compounds, there is no need to show the C—FI bonds explicitly. We just fill in the correct number of hydrogen atoms mentally compare the line structure of 2-chlorobutane, QT3C1TC1CF12C]T3 (3a), with its structural form (3b). Line... 

The three representations that are referred to in this study are (1) macroscopic representations that describe the bulk observable properties of matter, for example, heat energy, pH and colour changes, and the formation of gases and precipitates, (2) submicroscopic (or molecular) representations that provide explanations at the particulate level in which matter is described as being composed of atoms, molecules and ions, and (3) symbolic (or iconic) representations that involve the use of chemical symbols, formulas and equations, as well as molecular structure drawings, models and computer simulations that symbolise matter (Andersson, 1986 Boo, 1998 Johnstone, 1991, 1993 Nakhleh Krajcik, 1994 Treagust Chittleborough, 2001). 

We use F as a representative molecular structure of the fuel in terms of its atoms and P, a similar description for the product. Of course, we can have more than one product, but symbolically we only need to represent one here. The chemical reaction can then be described by the chemical equation as... 

Section treats the spatial, angular momentum, and spin symmetries of the many-electron wavefunctions that are formed as antisymmetrized products of atomic or molecular orbitals. Proper coupling of angular momenta (orbital and spin) is covered here, and atomic and molecular term symbols are treated. The need to include Configuration Interaction to achieve qualitatively correct descriptions of certain species electronic structures is treated here. The role of the resultant Configuration Correlation Diagrams in the Woodward-Hoffmann theory of chemical reactivity is also developed. 

Daltons atomic concept not only created and illuminated the numerical relations of composition it also created the possibility of molecular structure. Dalton himself defended his use of circular symbols for his atoms against the literal symbols of Berzelius because the circles allowed spatial representation. Berzelius symbols, he wrote. 

Brodie s attempt to abolish the chemical atom, and thereby the physical atom, would not work. Nevertheless, Brodie persisted with his Calculus trying to incorporate carbon compounds into the system, but faihng to find a simple way of distinguishing between ordinary isomers (which have identical weights and therefore identical symbols), let alone stereochemical ones. He died in 1880 having failed to persuade chemists that his anti-atomistic stance was a sensible way forward now that organic chemists were able to picture molecular structures using atomic symbolism. 

The first task of chemoinformatics is to transform chemical knowledge, such as molecular structures and chemical reactions, into computer-legible digital information. The digital representations of chemical information are the foundation for all chemoin-formatic manipulations in computer. There are many file formats for molecular information to be imported into and exported from computer. Some formats contain more information than others. Usually, intended applications will dictate which format is more suitable. For example, in a quantum chemistry calculation the molecular input file usually includes atomic symbols with three-dimensional (3D) atomic coordinates as the atomic positions, while a molecular dynamics simulation needs, in addition, atom types, bond status, and other relevant information for defining a force field. 

The Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) is frequently used for computer-aided evaluation of molecular structures [1-3]. SMILES is widely accepted and computationally efficient because SMILES uses atomic symbols and a set of intuitive rules. Before presenting examples, the basic rules needed to enter molecular structures as SMILES notation are given. 

Table M-1. Matrix representation of the molecular structure symbol, current name, munber of rows and columns (A number of atoms, B number of bonds, C cyclicity,...

SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) was invented by Weininger5 to facilitate the representation and manipulation of molecular structures using computers. It uses standard atomic symbols to represent atoms and the symbols - for single bond, = for double bond, and for triple bond. Hydrogen atoms can be represented explicitly but are almost always represented implicitly using normal conventions of valence bond theory. Single bonds need not be explicitly written. For example, propane is C-C-C or simply CCC. Methylamine is CN, and C N is hydrogen cyanide. Propene is C=CC. For more complex structures with branched bonds, parentheses are used. For example, CC(C)0 is isopropyl alcohol, whereas CCCO is propanol. 

The molfile or sdf file format is a very common way to store molecular structures. This can be considered as an external representation of a molecular structure data type. There are many other common file formats in use and only the essential features common to all of them will be considered here. The essential aspects of molecular structure contained in these files are atomic number or atomic symbol, formal atomic charge, bonded atom pairs, and bond orders. These are the minimum attributes necessary to define an unambiguous valence bond molecular structure. Other atom properties, such as atom types might also occur in these files, but these are specific to particular modeling programs and will not be discussed here. Sometimes molecular properties are also stored in these files. A way to store these properties in relational tables is discussed. 

It would be possible to create tables using columns to store the atomic symbols and bond information found in molecular structure files, reflecting the column style format of the file itself. Instead, a SMILES representation of this valence bond information is preferred. SMILES is a compact text string containing the same information as the columns of atom symbols and bonds. It can also be used directly in the search functions described in earlier chapters. It is desirable to parse the molecular properties in molecular structure files in order to store them in data columns for possible searching... 

In a molecular structure file, an atom record typically contains all of the information about that atom the atomic number or symbol, the charge, coordinates, etc. When such a file is parsed into a SMILES string and an array of coordinates, it is important to be able to associate the proper coordinate with the proper atom. The use of canonical SMILES ensures this. Because canonical SMILES defines a unique order of the atoms in a molecule, that order is used to store the coordinates. Later sections of this chapter will discuss ways in which atomic coordinates might be stored in columns of a table. 

All of the substructure match algorithms described so far rely entirely on the topology of 2-D molecular structures. These algorithms can be further extended to compare query-target pairs of structures containing stereochemistry [42]. It is in this area where atom coordinates of 2-D structures play a certain role The configuration of double bonds and tetrahedral centers can be computed from atom display coordinates and bond symbols [42],... 

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