A Java Chemical Structure Editor Supporting the Modular Chemical Descriptor Language (MCDL)
Abstract
:Introduction
Results and Discussion
Reconstruction of bond order from MCDL string
- Two cyclic bonds attached to a chalcogen (oxygen, sulphur) or a three-coordinated nitrogen of unknown order are replaced by single bonds. The same procedure is executed for a nitrogen atom linked with neighboring atoms with three aromatic bonds—junction of fused aromatic rings.
- The valences of positively charged heteroatoms are incremented by 1 relative to standard values: N+: 4; O+: 3.
- The order of an arbitrary selected bond is assigned to 1. The order of an adjacent bond is considered to be 2, next—1 and so on. For fusion atoms (any atom of a fused-ring system which is common to two or more rings), one bond is temporarily assigned as a double and the other two as a single. This temporary assignment is stored to allow future modification in case of an incorrect assignment.
- If the calculated number of hydrogens does not correspond to the MCDL string number, then the reconstruction process is considered to be unsuccessful. In this case, the algorithm returns to the last fused atom assignment (point 3) to reassign single and double bonds.
- If after all attempts, there is no acceptable bond assignment, the program returns to point 1, and the order of the first arbitrary selected bond is set to be 2.
- Finally, Kekule structure representation is considered to be impossible if no bond order assignment that corresponds to an MCDL string can be found.
Structure diagram generation of polycyclic compounds
- The set of the minimum number of cycles in the compound is calculated using an algorithm [41] and stored in the LIST.
- The search in the fragment database is executed, and coordinates of relevant atoms are assigned when a fragment is found. If a fragment is not found, then the maximum size cycle from the LIST is drawn. If there is no cycle, then two linked atoms with maximum substitution numbers are used as the initial fragment to generate a structure diagram.
- The fragment in the database is searched for atoms with not-yet-determined coordinates. The fragment should be linked to an atom with known 2D coordinates.
- If the fragment is found, then coordinates of corresponding atoms in the structure are considered to be assigned. Then the algorithm returns to point 3, and the next fragment is searched. If there are no more qualified fragments, then the algorithm moves to point 5.
- All cycles from the list with at least one assigned coordinate atom are added to the structure. If coordinates of only one atom are known, then a spiro-cycle is added with standard bond lengths, and angles are calculated from the size of the cycle. If coordinates of two bonded atoms are known, then a fused cycle is added with the bonds’ length equal to a known bond and with the angles calculated as 2π/N, where N is the size of the cycle. If the coordinates of three and more atoms are known (polycyclic structure), then the chain is locked. The positions of new atoms are assigned using a special subroutine to avoid bond intersection (if possible). If the position of at least one more atom is determined here, then the algorithm returns to point 3, otherwise it goes to point 6.
- Coordinates of acyclic atoms (connected to cyclic atoms with known coordinates) are calculated using the standard bond length and the optimal bond angle 2π/3. In the case of long chains, coordinates of only the first (connection) atom are calculated. If the position of at least one more atom is determined here then the algorithm returns to point 3, otherwise it goes to point 7.
- A determination is made whether coordinates of all atoms are defined. “Yes” means the process is finished; “No” means that compound is a disconnected graph with two or more substructures. The process is repeated beginning from point 1 for the next fragment until full completion.
Overlapped fragments
Conclusions
Supplementary materials
Acknowledgments
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Trepalin, S.V.; Yarkov, A.V.; Pletnev, I.V.; Gakh, A.A. A Java Chemical Structure Editor Supporting the Modular Chemical Descriptor Language (MCDL). Molecules 2006, 11, 219-231. https://doi.org/10.3390/11040219
Trepalin SV, Yarkov AV, Pletnev IV, Gakh AA. A Java Chemical Structure Editor Supporting the Modular Chemical Descriptor Language (MCDL). Molecules. 2006; 11(4):219-231. https://doi.org/10.3390/11040219
Chicago/Turabian StyleTrepalin, Sergei V., Alexander V. Yarkov, Igor V. Pletnev, and Andrei A. Gakh. 2006. "A Java Chemical Structure Editor Supporting the Modular Chemical Descriptor Language (MCDL)" Molecules 11, no. 4: 219-231. https://doi.org/10.3390/11040219