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- From: conklin@qucis.queensu.ca (Darrell Conklin)
- Subject: Re: Left-handed sugar
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.195742.10869@qucis.queensu.ca>
- Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston
- References: <1992Dec31.145240.29740@cas.org>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:57:42 GMT
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- With regard to the discussion of sugars and configurations.
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- Our group has found that the hexopyranose sugars can be classified
- into their 16 configurations solely on the basis of van der Waals
- contacts between the oxygens on adjacent chiral centers.
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- The paper is
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- Conklin, Darrell, Suzanne Fortier, Janice Glasgow and Frank Allen.
- 1992. Discovery of Spatial Concepts in crystallographic databases.
- In Proceedings of the ML '92 Workshop on Machine Discovery.
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- The technique as presented does not distinguish between a configuration
- and its enantiomer, since distances are invariant under reflection.
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- Darrell Conklin conklin@qucis.queensu.ca
- Department of Computing and Information Science Tel: (613) 545-6301
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