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"it only takes seconds to make high-quality molecules" I have a hard time accepting that this is true for any but the simplest of molecules. Takes caffeine or
by dalke 11y ago
"it only takes seconds to make high-quality molecules"
I have a hard time accepting that this is true for any but the simplest of molecules. Takes caffeine or Diazepam as more realistic examples. These have double bonds, which are drawn offset from the center-to-center line, and use elements besides carbon, which need either labels or CPK color assignments.
Even in the case shown here, benzene should be drawn with double bonds for correct Kekule interpretation, or with one of several ways to denote aromatic bonds. However, there are fields like macromolecular structure visualization where bond type information is often omitted, so this is not critical. But drawing cyclohexane would be difficult because of the non-planar hydrogens.
There are any number of tools for making eye-catching images. These include programs that will render the atoms and bonds using more complex materials, and including shading effects, fog effects, and multiple light sources. I think it would be better to leave this PP example in the "neat though very limited applicability" category.