Introduction to Building
I.Simple Exercises


Abstract. Some familiarity with drawing molecular structures is assumed for computational chemistry programs that have graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Molecules can be drawn using either simple or fragment menus, depending on the program. This exercise is aimed at giving practice with drawing various inorganic and organic molecules.


Procedure. Use the builder and (if available) structure pre-optimizing routines to obtain reasonable starting geometries for the following systems.