Report 78 15 Application of the Permutation Group to 9 Stanford K SL Generation for Computer Assisted Structure Elucidation .

The purpose of tnis paper is to describe a recent effort to generate, classify, and enulerate the sttreoisomers of all organic chemical structures consistent with a given empirical formula. The resulting theory is then converted into an algorithm which is programmed for a computer. The resulting program is used as an aid for computer assisted structure elucidation [1]. The proper group theoretical formulation is the key to the solution of the problem and will be discussed here. Simply st,'..ed, the problem is to generate, classify, and enumerate the possible stereoisomers for an organic chemical structure of defined constitution.