Contemporary Computer-Assisted Approaches to Molecular Structure Elucidation [Hardcover]

Computer-Assisted Structure Elucidation (CASE) systems are a combination of software algorithms and tools to support and enable chemists and spectroscopists engaged in the process of molecular structure elucidation via the analysis of spectroscopic data. These expert systems dramatically reduce the time associated with structure elucidation and improve the reliability of the results. Contemporary Computer-Assisted Approaches to Molecular Structure Elucidation describes the principles on which these expert systems for spectroscopic structure elucidation are based and concisely explains the algorithmic concepts behind the programs. The authors use their own personal experiences in the development of the Structure Elucidator (StrucEluc) CASE software system to discuss the present state-of-the-art in computer-assisted structure elucidation. Computer-assisted structure elucidation (CASE) aims to provide users in chemistry, molecular biology, or other areas dealing with structures of small molecules with suggestions on the structural identity of molecules based on spectroscopic, chromatographic and other boundary information. With Contemporary computer-assisted approaches to molecular structure elucidation , Mikhail Elyashberg, Anthony Williams and Kirill Blinov, all world-renowned experts on the topic, have recently written a normative standard text-book on the topic. Published by RSC publishing in 2012 and on 481 pages, the book provides a comprehensive overview on computer-assisted structure elucidation.The book is divided into three parts (Basics of CASE, Overview of CASE systems, and a comprehensive discussion of their own system, Structure Elucidator) comprised of overall 14 chapters.As the authors point out, the CASE process can be reduced to logically interfering `the most probable structural hypothesis from a set of statements reflecting the interrelation between a spectrum and structure'. Given that every human expert in structure elucidation will be biased by lg