Reaction recipes

A reaction recipe is a procedure for applying a reaction to a set of chemical species. Each reaction recipe is made up of a set of actions that, when applied sequentially, a set of chemical reactants to chemical products via that reaction’s characteristic chemical process. Each action requires a small set of parameters in order to be fully defined.

We define the following reaction recipe actions:

Action name	Arguments	Action
CHANGE_BOND	center1, order, center2	change the bond order of the bond between center1 and center2 by order; do not break or form bonds
FORM_BOND	center1, order, center2	form a new bond between center1 and center2 of type order
BREAK_BOND	center1, order, center2	break the bond between center1 and center2, which should be of type order
GAIN_RADICAL	center, radical	increase the number of free electrons on center by radical
LOSE_RADICAL	center, radical	decrease the number of free electrons on center by radical