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Chemical Conventions


The following table describes the chemical conventions understood by ChemDraw.

Bond
Description
Single bond, unspecified stereochemistry.
Single bond, "down" stereochemistry (into the plane of the paper, away from the viewer), from the first drawn atom to the second drawn atom.
Single bond, "up" stereochemistry (out of the plane of the paper, toward the viewer), from the first drawn atom to the second drawn atom.
Single bond, mixture of "up" and "down" stereochemistries in some unspecified proportion.
Dative bond. Often used to indicate polar bonds, such as the N-O bond in pyridine N-oxide.
Double bond, with cis/trans stereochemistry as drawn.
Double bond, with cis/trans stereochemistry unknown.
Tautomeric bond, either single or double according to rules of tautomerism.
Aromatic bond, part of a delocalized resonance system.
Triple bond.
Quadruple Bond.

A single bond near a closed circle is recognized as aromatic:


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