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MARS Plus: An Improved Molecular Design Tool for Complex Compounds Involving Ionic, Stereo, and Cis-Trans Isomeric Structures.

Chen-Hsuan HuangShiang-Tai Lin
Published in: Journal of chemical information and modeling (2023)
MARS (Molecular Assembling and Representation Suite) (Hsu et al. J. Chem. Inf. Model . 2019 , 59 , 3703-3713) is a toolbox for the molecular design of organic molecules. MARS uses integer arrays to represent the elements and connectivity between elements of a molecule. It provides a collection of operations to manipulate the elemental composition and connectivity of a molecule (or a pair of molecules), enabling the creation of novel chemical compounds. In this work, the original MARS is extended to handle complex molecular structures, including geometric (cis-trans) isomers, stereo isomers, cyclic compounds, and ionic species. The extended version of MARS, referred to as MARS+, has a more comprehensive coverage of the chemical space and therefore can explore molecules with a greater chemical and physical diversity. Compared to other molecular design tools, MARS+ is designed to perform all possible manipulations on a given molecule or a pair of molecules. Molecular structure manipulation can be conducted in either a controlled or a random fashion. Furthermore, every structure manipulation has a counterpart so that the operation can be reversed. Nearly any possible chemical structure can be generated with MARS+ via a combination of molecular operations. The capabilities of MARS+ are examined by the design of new ionic liquids (ILs). The results show that MARS+ is a useful tool for computer-aided molecular design (CAMD) and molecular structure enumeration.
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