A New and Simple Approach to Chemical Complexity. Application to the Synthesis of Natural Products
- 6 February 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences
- Vol. 41 (2) , 269-272
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ci000145p
Abstract
A new approach to describe the complexity of chemical structures is proposed. This index is simple and can be easily programmed. It derives from Whitlock's index and, despite its empirical character, provides results paralleling those obtained with the mathematical Bertz index. It has been applied to follow the strategic progress of some natural product syntheses.Keywords
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