Chemical Space

With Chemical Space (English literally means " chemical space ", the German translation is not used) is the set of all molecules meant that exist or can be made. The chemical space is estimated to be 10440 molecules that are thermodynamically stable. In drug research, the total number of possible molecules is referred to, which can be used as drugs with Chemical space. It is based on a maximum molecular weight for drugs of 600 g · mol -1 assume that the total number is 1060. Chemical the space serves as the comparison of the number of previously synthesized compounds from about 35 million to the maximum possible number of synthesizable substances.