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Updated documentation for chirality
Explain in the documentation that chirality is incorportated into symmetry number. This should clarify user concerns about the symmetry value.
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documentation/source/users/rmg/thermo.rst

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(i.e. point groups lacking :math:`\sigma_h`, :math:`\sigma_d`, :math:`\sigma_v`, and :math:`S_n`
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symmetry elements).
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In RMG, chirality is incorportated into the symmetry attribute by dividing the symmetry by
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two which will increase entropy by :math:`+R * ln(2)`. RMG currently checks for each chiral
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center, defined by 4 different groups attached to a carbon, and halves the symmetry
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for each chiral center.
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The effect of cis-trans isomers is currently not accounted for in RMG.
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References
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.. [RDKit] Landrum, G. (2012). RDKit, http://rdkit.org.
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.. [Benson] Benson, S.W. (1965), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_group_increment_theory
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.. [Benson] Benson, S.W. (1965), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_group_increment_theory

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