Intrepid Blog » westerbaan huurman notation http://blog.affien.com A few thoughts Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:58:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Westerbaan Huurman notation http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/11/15/westerbaan-huurman-notation/ http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/11/15/westerbaan-huurman-notation/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:11:07 +0000 Bas Westerbaan http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2005/11/15/westerbaan-huurman-notation/ [Cn-H]1..8
[sigma(n,n+1)]1..3,5..7;
sigma(4,1);sigma(8,5);
[sigma(n,n+4)]1..4

and

C1-5,H-C2-6,H-C3-7,H-C4-8,H,1;
C5-H-C6-H-C7-C8-H;

and

[Cn-n+4,H]1..4;
[Cn-H]5..8;
sigma(4,1); sigma(8,5);

They all represent the same carbon cube. (C8H8)

Purpose; because the normal naming of chemistry can’t define all structures they come up with trivial names, which I find very annoying. This notation is intended to be able to describe every structure uniformly. And no, don’t even try to pronounce it.

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