Abstract:
This paper aims to identify a suitable approach to find various possible
paths to perform organic conversions, and to find an optimal path among
them. For that this paper describes about the knowledge-base approach
under three sections. They are; representing different organic compounds in
the knowledge-base, representing different organic reactions in the
knowledge-base and evaluating different searching strategies to find the
conversion paths. Finally this paper proposes general logical representation
mechanisms for different organic compounds and different organic
reactions. Also experimental results show that the performance of the
system depends on the number of rules in the knowledge-base, type of the
reactant and the number of steps for the conversion.
