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The cavity is further bounded by two carbon atoms and an adjacent hydrogen atom of each of six of the hydroquinone molecules in the manner shown in the figure. Hence, the wall of the cavity is formed by 12 oxygen atoms, 12 carbon atoms, and 18 

The foregoing lattice is that which is found in the clathrates of hydroquinone with small molecules (C2H2, HC1, etc.). Powell24 further showed that if larger molecules are included, the hydroquinone lattice is distorted to form oblong cavities this distortion increases in the series CH3OH, S02, C02 and has become extreme for CH3CN. 

Although we represent bipyridyl in (1) as having a cis-planar conformation, as is usual in its complexes, the free ligand exists in a 

Theoretical treatments have been applied to derivations of the relative net charges on the various atoms of the free phenanthroline molecule (490) and to discussions of the absorption spectrum of bipyridyl in both cis and trans conformations (290). 

Recently, the cis-distorted octahedral complex [Cu(bipy)2(ONO)]NOs has been discussed and compared with the copper complexes listed in Table I (590a, 590h). The bipyridyl ligand in Irl2(OOC CHs)(CO)(bipy) has been found to be nonplanar (4a). 

In contrast to the relational table design of mmCIF, the MMDB data records are structured as hierarchical records. In terms of performance, ASN.l-formatted MMDB files provide for much faster input and output than do mmCIF or PDB records. Their nested hierarchy requires fewer validation steps at load time than the relational scheme in mmCIF or in the PDB file format hence, ASN. 1 files are ideal for three-dimensional structure database browsing. 

A complete application programming interface is available for MMDB as part of the NCBI toolkit, containing a wide variety of C code libraries and applications. Both an ASN.l input/output programming interface layer and a molecular computing layer (MMDB-API) are present in the NCBI toolkit. The NCBI toolkit supports x86 and alpha-based Windows platforms, Macintosh 68K and PowerPC CPUs, and a wide variety of UNIX platforms. The three-dimensional structure database viewer (Cn3D) is an MMDB-API-based application with soince code included in the NCBI toolkit. 

Because the protein structure record IBNl has three barnase molecules in the crystallographic unit, the PDB file has been hand-edited using a text editor to delete the superfluous chains. Editing data files is an accepted and widespread practice in three-dimensional molecular structure software, forcing the three-dimensional structure viewer to show what the user wants. In this case, the crystallographic data 

One somewhat imexpected result of the use of molecular populahons is the assignment of degenerate coordinates in a database record, i.e., more than one coordinate location for a single atom in the chemical graph. This is recorded when the population of molecules has observable conformational heterogeneity. 

The images from the ensemble of an NMR structure (Eig. 5.6, b and d) show the dynamic variation of a molecule in solution. This reflects the conditions of the 

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Clearly, it is more desirable somehow to obtain detailed structural information on multilayer films so as perhaps to settle the problem of how properly to construct the potential function. Some attempts have been made to develop statistical mechanical other theoretical treatments of condensed layers in a potential field success has been reasonable (see Refs. 142, 143). 

Figure 2-1. Hierarchical scheme for representations of a molecule with difFerent contents of structural information.

The ROSDAL (Representation of Organic Structures Description Arranged Linearly) syntax was developed by S. Welford, J. Barnard, and M.F. Lynch in 1985 for the Beilstein Institute. This line notation was intended to transmit structural information between the user and the Beilstein DIALOG system (Beilstein-Ohlme) during database retrieval queries and structure displays. This exchange of structure information by the ROSDAL ASCII character string is very fast. 

A structure drawn by a molecular editor such as ISIS Draw) can be translated by the data conversion program AutoNom into a lUPAC name, and vice versa, by exchanging structure information through a ROSDAL string [18, 19]. 

In 1986, David Weininger created the SMILES Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) notation at the US Environmental Research Laboratory, USEPA, Duluth, MN, for chemical data processing. The chemical structure information is highly compressed and simplified in this notation. The flexible, easy to learn language describes chemical structures as a line notation [20, 21]. The SMILES language has found widespread distribution as a universal chemical nomenclature... 

Another approach applies graph theory. The analogy between a structure diagram and a topological graph is the basis for the development of graph theoretical algorithms to process chemical structure information [33-35]. 

Besides the MDL Molfile formal, other file formats are often used in chemistry SMILES has already been mentioned in Section 2.3.3. Another one, the PDB file format, is primarily used for storing 3D structure information on biological macromolecules such as proteins and polynucleotides (Tutorial, Section 2.9.7) [52, 53). GIF (Crystallographic Information File) [54, 55] is also a 3D structure information file format with more than three incompatible file versions and is used in crystallography. GIF should not be confused with the Chiron Interchange Formal, which is also extended with. cif. In spectroscopy, JCAMP is apphed as a spectroscopic exchange file format [56]. Here, two modifications can be... 

The different internal and external file formats make it necessary to have programs which convert one format into another. One of the first conversion programs for chemical structure information was Babel (around 1992). It supports almost 50 data formats for input and output of chemical structure information [61]. CLIFF is another file format converter based on the CACTVS technology and which supports nearly the same number of file formats [29]. In contrast to Babel, the program is more comprehensive it is able to convert chemical reaction information, and can calculate missing atom coordinates [29]. 

Table 2-5. The most important File formats for exchange of chemical structure information.

GIF. cif Crystallographic Information File format for 3D structure information on organic molecules umnv.iucr.org/iucr4op/cif/ 55... 

To code the configuration of a molecule various methods are described in Section 2.8. In particular, the use of wedge symbols clearly demonstrates the value added if stereodescriptors are included in the chemical structure information. The inclusion of stereochemical information gives a more realistic view of the actual spatial arrangement of the atoms of the molecule imder consideration, and can therefore be regarded as between the 2D (topological) and the 3D representation of a chemical structure. 

Tabic 2-6 gives an overview on the most common file formats for chemical structure information and their respective possibilities of representing or coding the constitution, the configuration, i.c., the stereochemistry, and the 3D structure or conformation (see also Sections 2..3 and 2.4). Except for the Z-matrix, all the other file formats in Table 2-6 which are able to code 3D structure information arc using Cartesian coordinates to represent a compound in 3D space. 

J.M. Barnard, C.J. Jochum, S.M. Wel-ford, ROSDAL A universal structure/ substmcture representation for PC-host communication, in Chemical Structure Information Systems Interfaces Communication and Standards, WA. Warr (Ed.), ACS Symposium Series No. 400, American Chemical Sodety, Washington, DC, 1989, pp. 76- 81. 

The real world is one of uncertainty. Suppose we are carrying out a reaction. We have obtained a product. In the beginning we observe a total uncertainty regarding the molecule. We have no information about its composition, the constitution of the skeleton, its stereochemical features, its physical properties, its biological activities, etc. Step by step, by routine experiments, we collect data. When the acquisition of the structural information is complete there is no uncertainty, at least about its structure. Well, we may not have perfect experiments, so this will require us to reserve space for the missing relevant information. However, it is rather more noise than genuine uncertainty, which, by the way, will never be eliminated. 

The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) contains crystal structure information... 

The PDB contains 20 254 experimentally determined 3D structures (November, 2002) of macromolecules (nucleic adds, proteins, and viruses). In addition, it contains data on complexes of proteins with small-molecule ligands. Besides information on the structure, e.g., sequence details (primary and secondary structure information, etc.), atomic coordinates, crystallization conditions, structure factors. 

As already mentioned (Section 5.3), the stored structure information in this type of database makes it possible to search for chemical structures in several ways. One method is to draw a structure (via a molecule editor) and to perform either a precise structure search (full structure search) or a search containing part of the input structure (substructure search) (see Sections 6.2-6.4). The databases also allow the searching of chemical names and molecular formulas (see Section 6.1). The search results are in most cases displayed in a graphical manner. 

Each predefined unit is related to its adjacency matrix representation. Finally, the derived units are assembled thus, the structural information is derived from the compound name. 

A structure descriptor is a mathematical representation of a molecule resulting from a procedure transforming the structural information encoded within a symbolic representation of a molecule. This mathematical representation has to be invariant to the molecule s size and number of atoms, to allow model building with statistical methods and artificial neural networks. 

Physical, chemical, and biological properties are related to the 3D structure of a molecule. In essence, the experimental sources of 3D structure information are X-ray crystallography, electron diffraction, or NMR spectroscopy. For compounds without experimental data on their 3D structure, automatic methods for the conversion of the connectivity information into a 3D model are required (see Section 2.9 of this Textbook and Part 2, Chapter 7.1 of the Handbook) [16]. 

EVA descriptors were proposed by Ferguson et al. [Ah, 47]. The EVA descriptor (EigenVAlue) extracts structural information from infrared spectra. The eigenva-... 

A particularly good selection of physical properties may be spectra, because they are known to depend strongly on the chemical structure. In fact, different types of spectra carry different kinds of structural information, NMR spectra characterize individual carbon atoms in their molecular environment. They therefore correspond quite closely to fragment-based descriptors, as underlined by the success of approaches to predict NMR spectra by fragment codes (see Section 10.2.3). 

A structure descriptor is a mathematical representation of a molecule resulting from a procedure transforming the structural information encoded within a symbolic representation of a molecule. 

The QSPR/QSAR methodology can also be applied to materials and mixtures where no structural information is available. Instead of descriptors derived from the compound s structure, various physicochemical properties, including spectra, can be used. In particular, spectra are valuable in this context as they reflect the structure in a sensitive way. 

These pairs of encoded structures and their (R spectra are used to ti ain a counterpropagation network (see Section 9.5.5). The two-layer netwoi k pi ocesses the structural information in its upper part and the spectral information in its lower part. Thus the network learns the correlation between the structures and their (R spec tra. This prnciedine is shown in Figine 10.2-8. 

In contrast to IR and NMR spectroscopy, the principle of mass spectrometry (MS) is based on decomposition and reactions of organic molecules on theii way from the ion source to the detector. Consequently, structure-MS correlation is basically a matter of relating reactions to the signals in a mass spectrum. The chemical structure information contained in mass spectra is difficult to extract because of the complicated relationships between MS data and chemical structures. The aim of spectra evaluation can be either the identification of a compound or the interpretation of spectral data in order to elucidate the chemical structure [78-80],... 

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