Re: QSAR - conformation vs conformer

Hope someone can summarize and prepare a short paper for publication
in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
<http://www.mdpi.org/ijms> ( http://www.ijms.org).

I think conformation vs conformer is just like structure vs molecule.

By the way, IJMS ( http://www.ijms.org) started to be covered by
SCI-expanded
(Web of Science). I would

Shu-Kun

Kendall N. Houk wrote:

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> One other point of interest: conformer is a contraction of
> "conformational isomer" so refers to a minimum as opposed to
> conformation which may be minimum, transition state, or something in
> between. Ken

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