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VALENCE
Element
CCarbon
Z=6 · 12.011 u
Bright elements are available. Dimmed elements show their real periodic-table positions but are not yet supported.
Bond order
Structure
Formal charge
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Torsion driver
Pick 4 bonded atoms in Measure mode to drive a dihedral angle.
Representation
Controls
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Bonding rules
Structures that violate the octet — five-bonded carbon, two-bonded
hydrogen, neutral four-bonded nitrogen — are refused as you draw, with
the reason shown. Hypervalent period-3 chemistry (SF₆, PCl₅) and
strained-but-real molecules (cyclopropane, cubane) remain buildable;
those get advisory strain flags instead.
Interpretation
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Export is a connectivity-only Kekulé SMILES. This version rejects stereochemical, isotopic, reaction and query syntax rather than silently discarding it. Use PubChem lookup as an identity check, not as proof that a proposed structure is novel.
⚗ Hypothetical retrosynthetic route sketch
Formula —MW 0.000Atoms 0Bonds 0Local recovery ready