CCO is ethanol. COO is methyl hydroperoxide. SMILES is a lovely standard, really simple and easy enough to write by hand, but powerful enough to describe real

CCO is ethanol. COO is methyl hydroperoxide. SMILES is a lovely standard, really simple and easy enough to write by hand, but powerful enough to describe real molecules in detail. Not long ago, i saw a chemical structure used as part of an illustration, and wondered what it was. I transcribed it as SMILES, put it into a chemical search engine, and found out what it was (nothing interesting!).