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. 2008 Feb 6;3(2):e1537. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001537

Table 1. Physicochemical properties defined in SUBSTRUCTURE.

Type of property Content and abbreviations
Orbital sp, sp2, and sp3 (sp, sp2, and sp3, respectively)
Number of attached non-hydrogen atoms 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 (×0, ×1, ×2, ×3, and ×4, respectively)
Ring Part of 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-membered ring (r3, r4, r5, and r6, respectively)
Delocalized electrons and mobile hydrogens Part of a conjugate bond (conj), a resonance bond (res), an aromatic ring (ar), an aromatic 5-membered ring (ar5), and an aromatic 6-membered ring (ar6)
Miscellaneous properties electrically negative atoms (neg), nitrogen atom of an amide (namide), and carbon atom of a carboxylate group (cx).
Electrostatic properties cation (ep1), anion (ep2), donor of a hydrogen bond (ep3), acceptor of a hydrogen bond (ep4), polar, which can be both donor or acceptor of a hydrogen bond (ep5), hydrophobic (ep6), and undefined properties (ep7).