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In areas such as retrieval, QSAR, synthesis design, reaction indexing, and structure display, ring analysis is required as a descriptive utility and to complement other structural analyses. Finding those rings necessary and sufficient for unambiguous representation, in an efficient manner and for the worst cases is not trivial. Issues include the 2-D representation of 3-D structures, the definition and perception of a ring set, and whether vertex and cut-vertex graphs simplify the analysis. Generic and partial/sub structures cause particular problems. Substructure queries can be the worst defined, introducing problems for structural conventions and ring/chain differentiation. After ring perception, it is necessary to select and represent the information relevant to a particular application. This can be used as a condensation, to enable more efficient matching, and as an expression, to give more detail to reduced graphs.
It was with great sadness that the author received the news that Cheng Qian of Chemical Abstracts Service died on 1 August 1990 after a long fight against cancer. His charming personality, dedication and deep mathematical understanding of areas such as ring perception make his death a tremendous loss to us all, and the author therefore wishes to dedicate this paper to his memory.
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Downs, G. (1993). Rings — The Importance of Being Perceived. In: Warr, W.A. (eds) Chemical Structures 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78027-1_19
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