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This book comprises the Proceedings of The Second Interna- tional Conferenceon Chemical Structures which was held at Leeuwenhorst Congress Center, Noordwijkerhout in the Nether- lands, between June 3 and June 7, 1990. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Chemical Structure Association, the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information, the Chemical Information Groups of the Royal Society of Che- mistry and the German Chemical Society. The purpose of the conference was to bring togetherexperts and an internatio- nal professional audience to discuss and to further basic and applied research and development in the processing, sto- rage, retrieval and use of chemical structures, to focus in- ternational attention on the importance of chemical informa- tion and the vital research being carried out in chemical information science andto foster cooperation among major chemical information organisations in North America and Eu- rope. Subjects covered included integrated in-house databa- ses, substructure searching methodology, spectral databanks, newtechnologies (microcomputers, CD-ROM, parallel proces- sing and expert systems) and chemical reactions.