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Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry / MATCH
2005, vol. 54, iss. 2, pp. 301-312
article language: English
Scientific Paper
Molecules in silica: Potential versus known organic compounds
aUniversity of Bayreuth - Department of Mathematics, Bayreuth, Germany
bDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, Kiadis B.V., Groningen, The Netherlands
cUniversity of Basel - Biocenter, Basel, Switzerland

e-mail: m.inermger@kiadis.com

Abstract

For molecular weights up to 150, all molecular graph corresponding to possible organic compounds made of C, H, N, О were generated using the structure generator MOLGEN. The numbers obtained were compared to the numbers of molecular graphs corresponding to actually known compounds as retrieved from the Beilstein file The results suggest that the overwhelming majority of all organic compounds (even in this low molecular weight range) is unknown. Within the set of C6 H6 isomers, a very crude and a highly sophisticated energy content calculation perform amazingly similar in predicting a particular structure's existence as a known compound.

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