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Perspective drawings

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My recommendation is to use wedge bonds when needed to clarify the structure. They must be used in a manner consistent with use in non-bridgehead situations.

The picture contains seven examples.

  1. Can be argued contains all needed information, provided the perspective is interpreted as sloping towards the viewer.

  2. Clarifies the perspective.

  3. Is incorrect because the bonds to A and B are in the plane of the paper

  4. see (3)

  5. identifies the bonds that are not in the plane of the diagram and points to the stereogenic bridgehead but the hashed bond is redundant information

  6. points to all stereogenic centers with bonds in the correct direction

  7. Uses a crossing bond to specify orientation and requires (in my opinion for this example) no other bond marks.

I do not recommend (3) and (4) because they identify the wrong bonds. The others are OK and the minimum bond information should be used. I don't see
many uses of the crossed bond, so whilst it is a good approach, it may not be taken up readily and it does introduce another bond style.

Open for comments.