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What does fractional notation represent in molecular formulas such as SiO4/2 or H2SiO2/2?
I'm going through some papers about HSQ (hydrogen silsesquioxane) and keep seeing this fractional notation being used:
HSiO3/2 , SiO4/2 , H2SiO2/2 , H3SiO1/2.
Example paper.
I understand that the ...
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Are atom coordinates in molfile necessary to produce a valid InChI identifier
I took this molfile of benzoic acid:
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Sucrose skeletal formula - missing Carbon and Hydrogen [duplicate]
I was reading the Wikipedia article about Sucrose, when I noticed that the skeletal formula was missing some $\ce{C}$ and $\ce{H}$ atoms. The chemical formula being $\ce{C12H22O11}$, I counted the $11$...
