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Hydrocarbon Builder

2D Skeletal Sketcher & IUPAC Engine

Graph DFS
Builder Manual & Nomenclature Rules

Drawing Skeletal Chains: Click anywhere on the 2D stage to place a Carbon atom. Click and drag from an existing atom to sprout a new bonded atom at standard 120° organic skeletal zig-zag angles.

Bond Multiplicity: Click an existing bond to cycle through Single (—), Double (=), and Triple (≡) orders.

DFS Systematic IUPAC Engine: Traverses the molecular graph to discover the longest principal carbon chain containing highest priority functional groups and unsaturations, tests numbering in both forward/reverse directions to minimize locants, alphabetizes substituents, and constructs systematic IUPAC names.

Auto-Hydrogen Saturation: Valence rules ($C=4, N=3, O=2, X=1$) are dynamically enforced to calculate implicit hydrogens, exact molar mass, and Index of Hydrogen Deficiency ($IHD = C + 1 - \frac{H - N + X}{2}$).

IHD: 0
Systematic IUPAC Name
Methane
Root: C1 Suffix: -ane
Molecular Formula CH₄
Exact Molar Mass 16.043 g/mol
Carbons / Hydrogens 1 C / 4 H
Heteroatoms 0
Hybridization 1 sp³
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Nodes: 1 Bonds: 0 Tool: Draw (C)
Click to add atom • Drag to draw bond • Click bond to toggle order