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The Core and Most Useful Molecules in Organic Chemistry
Author(s) -
Bishop Kyle J. M.,
Klajn Rafal,
Grzybowski Bartosz A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200600881
Subject(s) - core (optical fiber) , set (abstract data type) , content (measure theory) , organic molecules , computer science , chemistry , information retrieval , data science , organic chemistry , molecule , mathematics , mathematical analysis , telecommunications , programming language
The fruitful core : Organic syntheses reported in the literature from 1850 to 2004 are analyzed with mathematical tools from network theory and statistical physics. There is a set of substances (the core) from which the majority of other organic compounds can be made (see picture; red: core, blue: periphery, green: islands). Search algorithms are used to identify small optimal sets of maximally useful chemicals.

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