Structural formula, the Glossary

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1. 69 relations: ACD/ChemSketch, Acetone, Aldehyde, Aromaticity, August Kekulé, Butane, Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules, Carboxylic acid, ChemDraw, Chemical bond, Chemical compound, Chemical database, Chemical formula, Chemical Markup Language, Chemical nomenclature, Chemical reaction, Chemical structure, Chemical synthesis, Chirality (chemistry), Cis–trans isomerism, Conformational isomerism, Conjugated system, Cyclohexane, Cyclohexane conformation, Diastereomer, Double bond, Eclipsed conformation, Electric charge, Electron, Enantiomer, Ester, Ethanol, Fischer projection, Formal charge, Fructose, Functional group, Glucose, Haworth projection, International Chemical Identifier, Isobutanol, Isomer, Isopropyl alcohol, Lewis structure, Lone pair, Molecular geometry, Molecular graph, Monosaccharide, Natta projection, Newman projection, Norman Haworth, ... Expand index (19 more) »

2. Chemical formulas
3. Chemical structures

ACD/ChemSketch

ACD/ChemSketch is a molecular modeling program used to create and modify images of chemical structures.

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Acetone

Acetone (2-propanone or dimethyl ketone) is an organic compound with the formula.

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Aldehyde

In organic chemistry, an aldehyde is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure.

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Aromaticity

In organic chemistry, aromaticity is a chemical property describing the way in which a conjugated ring of unsaturated bonds, lone pairs, or empty orbitals exhibits a stabilization stronger than would be expected by the stabilization of conjugation alone.

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August Kekulé

Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896), was a German organic chemist.

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Butane

Butane or n-butane is an alkane with the formula C4H10.

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Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules

In organic chemistry, the Cahn–Ingold–Prelog (CIP) sequence rules (also the CIP priority convention; named after Robert Sidney Cahn, Christopher Kelk Ingold, and Vladimir Prelog) are a standard process to completely and unequivocally name a stereoisomer of a molecule.

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Carboxylic acid

In organic chemistry, a carboxylic acid is an organic acid that contains a carboxyl group attached to an R-group.

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ChemDraw

ChemDraw is a molecule editor first developed in 1985 by Selena "Sally" Evans, her husband David A. Evans, and Stewart Rubenstein (later by the cheminformatics company CambridgeSoft).

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Chemical bond

A chemical bond is the association of atoms or ions to form molecules, crystals, and other structures.

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Chemical compound

A chemical compound is a chemical substance composed of many identical molecules (or molecular entities) containing atoms from more than one chemical element held together by chemical bonds.

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Chemical database

A chemical database is a database specifically designed to store chemical information.

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Chemical formula

A chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, commas and plus (+) and minus (−) signs. Structural formula and chemical formula are chemical formulas.

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Chemical Markup Language

Chemical Markup Language (ChemML or CML) is an approach to managing molecular information using tools such as XML and Java.

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Chemical nomenclature

Chemical nomenclature is a set of rules to generate systematic names for chemical compounds.

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Chemical reaction

A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.

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Chemical structure

A chemical structure of a molecule is a spatial arrangement of its atoms and their chemical bonds. Structural formula and chemical structure are chemical structures.

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Chemical synthesis

Chemical synthesis (chemical combination) is the artificial execution of chemical reactions to obtain one or several products.

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Chirality (chemistry)

In chemistry, a molecule or ion is called chiral if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any combination of rotations, translations, and some conformational changes.

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Cis–trans isomerism

Cis–trans isomerism, also known as geometric isomerism, describes certain arrangements of atoms within molecules.

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Conformational isomerism

In chemistry, conformational isomerism is a form of stereoisomerism in which the isomers can be interconverted just by rotations about formally single bonds (refer to figure on single bond rotation).

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Conjugated system

In theoretical chemistry, a conjugated system is a system of connected p-orbitals with delocalized electrons in a molecule, which in general lowers the overall energy of the molecule and increases stability.

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Cyclohexane

Cyclohexane is a cycloalkane with the molecular formula.

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Cyclohexane conformation

Cyclohexane conformations are any of several three-dimensional shapes adopted by molecules of cyclohexane.

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Diastereomer

In stereochemistry, diastereomers (sometimes called diastereoisomers) are a type of stereoisomer.

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Double bond

In chemistry, a double bond is a covalent bond between two atoms involving four bonding electrons as opposed to two in a single bond.

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Eclipsed conformation

In chemistry an eclipsed conformation is a conformation in which two substituents X and Y on adjacent atoms A, B are in closest proximity, implying that the torsion angle X–A–B–Y is 0°.

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Electric charge

Electric charge (symbol q, sometimes Q) is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.

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Electron

The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.

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Enantiomer

In chemistry, an enantiomer (/ɪˈnænti.əmər, ɛ-, -oʊ-/ ''ih-NAN-tee-ə-mər''; from Ancient Greek ἐναντίος (enantíos) 'opposite', and μέρος (méros) 'part') – also called optical isomer, antipode, or optical antipode – is one of two stereoisomers that are nonsuperposable onto their own mirror image.

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Ester

In chemistry, an ester is a functional group derived from an acid (organic or inorganic) in which the hydrogen atom (H) of at least one acidic hydroxyl group of that acid is replaced by an organyl group.

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Ethanol

Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula.

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Fischer projection

In chemistry, the Fischer projection, devised by Emil Fischer in 1891, is a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional organic molecule by projection.

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Formal charge

In chemistry, a formal charge (F.C. or), in the covalent view of chemical bonding, is the hypothetical charge assigned to an atom in a molecule, assuming that electrons in all chemical bonds are shared equally between atoms, regardless of relative electronegativity.

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Fructose

Fructose, or fruit sugar, is a ketonic simple sugar found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose.

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Functional group

In organic chemistry, a functional group is a substituent or moiety in a molecule that causes the molecule's characteristic chemical reactions.

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Glucose

Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula.

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Haworth projection

In chemistry, a Haworth projection is a common way of writing a structural formula to represent the cyclic structure of monosaccharides with a simple three-dimensional perspective.

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International Chemical Identifier

The International Chemical Identifier (InChI, pronounced) is a textual identifier for chemical substances, designed to provide a standard way to encode molecular information and to facilitate the search for such information in databases and on the web.

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Isobutanol

Isobutanol (IUPAC nomenclature: 2-methylpropan-1-ol) is an organic compound with the formula (CH3)2CHCH2OH (sometimes represented as i-BuOH).

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Isomer

In chemistry, isomers are molecules or polyatomic ions with identical molecular formula – that is, the same number of atoms of each element – but distinct arrangements of atoms in space.

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Isopropyl alcohol

Isopropyl alcohol (IUPAC name propan-2-ol and also called isopropanol or 2-propanol) is a colorless, flammable organic compound with a pungent alcoholic odor.

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Lewis structure

Lewis structuresalso called Lewis dot formulas, Lewis dot structures, electron dot structures, or Lewis electron dot structures (LEDs)are diagrams that show the bonding between atoms of a molecule, as well as the lone pairs of electrons that may exist in the molecule. Structural formula and Lewis structure are chemical formulas.

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Lone pair

In chemistry, a lone pair refers to a pair of valence electrons that are not shared with another atom in a covalent bondIUPAC Gold Book definition: and is sometimes called an unshared pair or non-bonding pair.

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Molecular geometry

Molecular geometry is the three-dimensional arrangement of the atoms that constitute a molecule.

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Molecular graph

In chemical graph theory and in mathematical chemistry, a molecular graph or chemical graph is a representation of the structural formula of a chemical compound in terms of graph theory.

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Monosaccharide

Monosaccharides (from Greek monos: single, sacchar: sugar), also called simple sugars, are the simplest forms of sugar and the most basic units (monomers) from which all carbohydrates are built.

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Natta projection

In chemistry, the Natta projection (named for Italian chemist Giulio Natta) is a way to depict molecules with complete stereochemistry in two dimensions in a skeletal formula.

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Newman projection

A Newman projection is a drawing that helps visualize the 3-dimensional structure of a molecule.

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Norman Haworth

Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS (19 March 1883 – 19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham.

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Oblique projection

Oblique projection is a simple type of technical drawing of graphical projection used for producing two-dimensional (2D) images of three-dimensional (3D) objects.

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Orbital hybridisation

In chemistry, orbital hybridisation (or hybridization) is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals to form new hybrid orbitals (with different energies, shapes, etc., than the component atomic orbitals) suitable for the pairing of electrons to form chemical bonds in valence bond theory.

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Pure and Applied Chemistry

Pure and Applied Chemistry is the official journal for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

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Radical (chemistry)

In chemistry, a radical, also known as a free radical, is an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron.

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Sawhorse

In woodworking, a saw-horse or sawhorse (saw-buck, trestle, buck) is a trestle structure used to support a board or plank for sawing.

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Side chain

In organic chemistry and biochemistry, a side chain is a chemical group that is attached to a core part of the molecule called the "main chain" or backbone.

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Simplified molecular-input line-entry system

The simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES) is a specification in the form of a line notation for describing the structure of chemical species using short ASCII strings.

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Single bond

In chemistry, a single bond is a chemical bond between two atoms involving two valence electrons.

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Skeletal formula

The skeletal formula, line-angle formula, bond-line formula or shorthand formula of an organic compound is a type of molecular structural formula that serves as a shorthand representation of a molecule's bonding and some details of its molecular geometry. Structural formula and skeletal formula are chemical formulas and chemical structures.

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Space

Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions.

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Standard temperature and pressure

Standard temperature and pressure (STP) or Standard conditions for temperature and pressure are various standard sets of conditions for experimental measurements used to allow comparisons to be made between different sets of data.

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Stereochemistry

Stereochemistry, a subdiscipline of chemistry, involves the study of the relative spatial arrangement of atoms that form the structure of molecules and their manipulation.

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Structural chemistry

Structural chemistry is a part of chemistry and deals with spatial structures of molecules (in the gaseous, liquid or solid state) and solids (with extended structures that cannot be subdivided into molecules).

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Triple bond

A triple bond in chemistry is a chemical bond between two atoms involving six bonding electrons instead of the usual two in a covalent single bond.

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Valency interaction formula

The Valency Interaction Formula, or VIF provides a way of drawing or interpreting the molecular structural formula based on molecular orbital theory.

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Vertex (geometry)

In geometry, a vertex (vertices or vertexes) is a point where two or more curves, lines, or edges meet or intersect.

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Vicinal (chemistry)

In chemistry the descriptor vicinal (from Latin vicinus.

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Water

Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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See also

Chemical formulas

• C11H8O2
• C17H19N3
• C17H23NO3
• C31H46O2
• Cement chemist notation
• Chemical formula
• Empirical formula
• Formula unit
• Glossary of chemical formulae
• Law of definite proportions
• Lewis structure
• Molecular formulas
• Skeletal formula
• Structural formula

Chemical structures

• Chemical formulas
• Chemical structure
• Geometry index
• Grid complex
• Markush structure
• Skeletal formula
• Structural formula

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_formula

Also known as Chemical diagram, Chemical representation, Chemical structure diagram, Condensed formula, Condensed structural formula, Constitutional formula, Displayed formula, Molecular structure diagram, Representation (chemistry), Sawhorse projection, Semi-structural formula, Structural formulae, Structure formula.

, Oblique projection, Orbital hybridisation, Pure and Applied Chemistry, Radical (chemistry), Sawhorse, Side chain, Simplified molecular-input line-entry system, Single bond, Skeletal formula, Space, Standard temperature and pressure, Stereochemistry, Structural chemistry, Sugar, Triple bond, Valency interaction formula, Vertex (geometry), Vicinal (chemistry), Water.