1. Introduction

The OpenEye IUPAC product contains two applications, nam2mol and mol2nam.

The nam2mol program is an application for converting compound names into chemical structures. The program currently converts text files containing a single name per line, in either American or British English, into database of molecules, in a choice of file formats, include MDL SD file, SMILES, SLN or Tripos .mol2. This program does not require the input compound name to be the preferred IUPAC name of a compound, and it will work with a variety of traditional names and/or alternate IUPAC forms.

The mol2nam program is an application to perform the opposite conversion, translating chemical structures into a reasonable compound name.