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(Redirected from Chemical class)
'Chemical classification' systems attempt to classify elements or compounds according to certain chemical functional or structural properties. Whereas the structural properties are largely intrinsic, functional properties and the derived classifications depend to a certain degree on the type of chemical interaction partners on which the function is exerted. Sometimes other criteria like purely physical ones (e.g. molecular weight) or - on the other hand - functional properties above the chemical level are also used for building chemical taxonomies.
Some systems mix the various levels, resulting in hierarchies where the domains are slightly confused, for example having structural and functional aspects end up on the same level. Whereas chemical function is closely dependent on chemical structure, the situation becomes more involved when e.g. pharmacological function is integrated, because the QSAR can usually not be directly computed from structural qualities.
★ by molecular weight
★ by electrical charge: uncharged, positively, negatively, partially charged
★
★ formal charge, oxidation state
★ solubility
★ pH value
Usually binary classifications and combinations thereof:
★ radicals, non-radicals
★ cyclic vs. linear
★ type of major bond: ionic (salts) vs. covalent
★ organic vs. inorganic compounds (depends on whether carbon is the main constituent or not)
★ (in organic chemistry)
★
★ aliphatic vs. aromatic compounds
★ by functional group
Mostly appropriate only for large biological molecules (as at least one interacting partner), in particular enzymes, depends on chemical functions of their constituent amino acids.
★ ligand vs. receptor, coenzyme
★ EC number
★ TC number
★ pharmacophore vs. non-drug
''See also:'' biological activity
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
Gene Ontology
★ Chemical Safety: Globally Harmonized Classification System
★ http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/ Chemical Entities of Biological Interest
'Chemical classification' systems attempt to classify elements or compounds according to certain chemical functional or structural properties. Whereas the structural properties are largely intrinsic, functional properties and the derived classifications depend to a certain degree on the type of chemical interaction partners on which the function is exerted. Sometimes other criteria like purely physical ones (e.g. molecular weight) or - on the other hand - functional properties above the chemical level are also used for building chemical taxonomies.
Some systems mix the various levels, resulting in hierarchies where the domains are slightly confused, for example having structural and functional aspects end up on the same level. Whereas chemical function is closely dependent on chemical structure, the situation becomes more involved when e.g. pharmacological function is integrated, because the QSAR can usually not be directly computed from structural qualities.
| Contents |
| Physico-chemical classification |
| Structural classification |
| Functional classification |
| Chemical function |
| Pharmacological/Biological function |
| Mixed systems |
| See also |
| External links |
Physico-chemical classification
★ by molecular weight
★ by electrical charge: uncharged, positively, negatively, partially charged
★
★ formal charge, oxidation state
★ solubility
★ pH value
Structural classification
Usually binary classifications and combinations thereof:
★ radicals, non-radicals
★ cyclic vs. linear
★ type of major bond: ionic (salts) vs. covalent
★ organic vs. inorganic compounds (depends on whether carbon is the main constituent or not)
★ (in organic chemistry)
★
★ aliphatic vs. aromatic compounds
Functional classification
Chemical function
★ by functional group
Pharmacological/Biological function
Mostly appropriate only for large biological molecules (as at least one interacting partner), in particular enzymes, depends on chemical functions of their constituent amino acids.
★ ligand vs. receptor, coenzyme
★ EC number
★ TC number
★ pharmacophore vs. non-drug
''See also:'' biological activity
Mixed systems
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
Gene Ontology
See also
★ Chemical Safety: Globally Harmonized Classification System
External links
★ http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/ Chemical Entities of Biological Interest
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