Models of necessity

• Timothy Clark and
• Martin G. Hicks

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1649–1661, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.137

• are likely to be important in rationalizing, extending and standardizing chemical bonding models. This will not affect the everyday language of chemistry but may help to understand the unique basis of chemical language. Keywords: chemical bonding; chemical ontologies; chemical structure formats

Biomimetic molecular design tools that learn, evolve, and adapt

• David A Winkler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1288–1302, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.125

• synthesis of organic compounds. Rzepa, and Murray-Rust among others, have begun systematizing chemistry using a type of chemical mark-up language (a machine-readable language designed to describe the central concepts in chemistry) and chemical ontologies (a formal naming and definition of the types