A Suggestion for Naming Faces of Ring Compounds (Stereochemistry/Ring Faces/Receptor Sites) IRWIN A
Proc. Nati. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 77, No. 5, pp. 2439-2441, May 1980 Biochemistry A suggestion for naming faces of ring compounds (stereochemistry/ring faces/receptor sites) IRWIN A. ROSE*, KENNETH R. HANSONt, KEITH D. WILKINSON*, AND MARY J. WIMMER*I *The Institute for Cancer Research, The Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111; and tConnecticut Agricultural Experimental Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06504 Contributed by Irwin A. Rose, January 18, 1980 ABSTRACr Discussion of the topology of interaction of ring PROPOSED RULES compounds with macromolecules and receptors requires a system for naming the faces of the cyclic compound. An Rule 1 a/#-face nomenclature is suggested that is based on the clock- wise/counterclockwise direction of ascending numbering in If the compound contains only one ring or if a ring in a com- the ring with the lowest numbered unshared ring atom. This pound is not fused to another, the faces are designated as a if system is applicable to a very broad range of compounds: sugars, a clockwise progression around each ring leads from the lowest cyclic bases, steroids, cyclitols, porphyrins, etc., and molecules numbered ring atom to the next higher numbered atom of the with a single ring, fused rings, encompassing rings, and rings ring by the shortest route. If the progression is counterclockwise, formed by head-to-tail polymerization. the face designation is /3. The ring is examined as a plane regular Many compounds of biological interest owe their special polygon-i.e., conformation properties are ignored. When, as properties to the chemistry and the shape of cyclic components occurs rarely, alternate number symbols are used, the pair of of their structures.
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