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chemical-structure-converter

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Convert between IUPAC names, SMILES strings, and molecular formulas for chemical compounds. Supports structure validation, identifier interconversion, and cheminformatics data preparation for drug discovery and chemical research workflows. Convert between IUPAC names, SMILES strings, molecular formulas, and common names for chemical compounds. Supports SMILES validation, batch processing, structure standardization, and cheminformatics database preparation for drug discovery workflows.

When to use

• **Standardizing chemical databases** with mixed naming conventions
• Preparing **compound libraries** for virtual screening or cheminformatics analysis
• **Converting structures** from publications (IUPAC names) to machine-readable formats (SMILES)
• **Validating SMILES strings** before using in computational chemistry tools
• **Registering new compounds** in chemical inventory systems
• **Matching compounds** across different databases with different identifier types
• Creating **structure-activity relationship (SAR)** tables with consistent formatting
• Needing **3D structure generation** or conformer search → Use molecular modeling software (RDKit, OpenBabel)

When not to use

• 3D structure generation
• Conformer search
• Quantum chemistry calculations
• Reaction schemes
• Multi-step synthesis
• Patent structure searching
• Converting biological sequences
• Spectral data prediction

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Conflict

Both copies describe the same chemical-structure-converter skill, but the aipoch/medical-research-skills copy contains material operational steps and constraints the LeoYeAI copy lacks: an explicit input validation gate, a Quick Check command, a numbered workflow, CLI usage and parameter table, output requirements, error handling with PubChem/ChemSpider fallbacks, batch summary requirements, and database versioning guidance. The LeoYeAI copy adds integration/upstream-downstream skill context and a more detailed 'When to Use' section. Crowning one would hide the other's real alternative content.