Molecular descriptor

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Molecular descriptor is any molecular property to characterize the molecule to search through database, to calculate another molecular property etc.

"The molecular descriptor is the final result of a logic and mathematical procedure which transforms chemical information encoded within a symbolic representation of a molecule into a useful number or the result of some standardized experiment."^[1]

[edit] See also

• Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rule
• Chemical database
• Docking (molecular)
• QSAR
• Topological index

[edit] References

1. ^ Roberto Todeschini and Viviana Consonni, Handbook of Molecular Descriptors, Wiley-VCH, 2000.http://www.moleculardescriptors.eu/books/handbook.htm