User guide

Chemical interpretation
ChemBioDraw 13.0 converts lines, characters, and other symbols into chemically meaningful figures as you work.
This occurs in the background, but you can also choose to view this chemical data. ChemBioDraw 13.0 uses the data
when exporting to file formats that support only a subset of the notations that ChemBioDraw 13.0 does.
This section describes how ChemBioDraw 13.0 interprets drawings.
Database conventions
Most databases require not only that you draw a structure in a way that makes sense, but that you draw it in the way
that the database expects it. Consider ferrocene, which is represented in at least four different ways in major data-
bases:
Figure 15.1: Representations of ferrocene
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