The All Groups Dialog is used throughout Cranium and Synapse for the navigation and the selection of groups.
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The attribute to display for each group. The available attributes are: 1) formula; 2) identifier; 3) synonym. |
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The list of attributes associated with each group. Note that a group may be listed more than once. For example, if you selected the synonyms attribute, then the All Groups list may contain several entries for the same group - one entry for each synonym. |
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Option indicating if the match substring contains wildcard characters. |
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The dialog will display only those group attributes containing the match substring. |
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The molecular structure of the selected group. |
When the Use wildcards option is checked, Cranium and Synapse will interpret the special characters "$" and "?" to mean:
$ | match zero or more characters |
? | match any single character |
For example, the substring "?C$4" matches the group named ">C4H2S {2,3}" because: 1) "?" matches ">"; 2) "C" matches "C"; 3) "$" matches an empty space; 4) "4" matches "4". Some additional examples are shown below:
Pattern | Matched Group |
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?C$4 | -C5H4N {2} |
C$O | CH3-N(CH3)-CHO |
C?H? | ClH3Si |
Pattern | Matched Formula |
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C?H? | C3H6NO* |
$C$S$ | C2H4O2S*2 |
$F3 | C2F3*2 |
If you are using wildcards to match a substring, remember to include an initial "$" to ignore all initial characters. Thus, the substring "CO" will match the group name "[C]-CO-[O]" when no wildcards are being used, but will not match the group when wildcards are being used. You must include an initial "$" character to ignore the initial characters, i.e., you must use the "$CO" pattern.
Topic | Description |
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Getting Started using Synapse | provides a quick tour of Synapse's capabilities including examples of chemical product design. |
Getting Started using Cranium | provides a quick tour of Cranium's capabilities including a discussion of structure editing. |
Estimating Chemical Properties | a short video demonstrating how to estimate the physical properties of chemicals using either Synapse or Cranium. |
Estimating Mixture Properties | a short video demonstrating how to estimate the physical properties of mixtures using either Synapse or Cranium. |