Glossary
A glossary of the terms used in Athanor and its help center, each with a one-line definition and a link to the page that explains it.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | A short label, such as OMe, Ph or CO2Et, that stands for a group of atoms and is counted in the formula. More |
| Agent | A helper that does one job across the document, such as naming or numbering structures, and hands back suggestions. More |
| arbastro Intelligence | The AI assistant built into Athanor, and the family of arbastro chemistry models behind predictions. More |
| arbastro Suite | The subscription for every arbastro app, in Lite, Plus and Ultra plans. More |
| Atom economy | The share of the reactants' mass that ends up in the main product. More |
| CDX, CDXML | ChemDraw's binary and XML file formats. Athanor opens and writes both. More |
| CIP labels | The R/S and E/Z descriptors worked out by the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules. More |
| Document type | The drawing standard of a document, such as ACS Document 1996: bond length, line widths and fonts. More |
| Embed | The Athanor editor placed on another web page and driven from its code. More |
| Frame | A rectangle on the canvas that becomes a slide. More |
| Hückel theory | A simple model of π orbitals in conjugated molecules, used for teaching. More |
| InChI, InChIKey | IUPAC's standard identifier for a structure, and its hashed short form. More |
| Issues badge | The count at the bottom left of the canvas of problems Athanor found in what you drew. More |
| Layers | The panel that lists everything on the page, in drawing order. More |
| MCP | The Model Context Protocol, a standard way for an AI assistant to use outside tools. More |
| Molfile | A text file format for one structure, in V2000 or V3000. More |
| Plugin | An add-on that adds a window, command, file format, check or input source to Athanor. More |
| Problem set | A set of problems for students, graded automatically. More |
| Quick insert | The search, opened with /, that inserts a structure by name, SMILES or CAS number. More |
| SA score | A synthetic accessibility estimate from 1 (easy) to 10 (hard). More |
| SMILES | A line notation that writes a structure as text, such as CCO for ethanol. More |
| Stereo group | A mark that says what a drawn configuration means: absolute, AND (racemic) or OR (unknown which). More |
| Template | A ready-made page or part, or a kind of problem for a problem set. More |
| View only | A state in which a document or embed can be seen but not edited. More |
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Last updated Nov 12, 2026
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