LaTeX forum ⇒ Math & Science ⇒ chemfig | Cram Bond Bases

[bytesmythe]

I'm using chemfig to make some diagrams for a chemistry paper and I was wondering if someone could help me figure out how I can improve the appearance of the cram bonds. I have attached a couple of examples to demonstrate the problem.

The first image shows what I think the bond should look like. This is a snippet of a molecule from Wikipedia and you can see how the cram bond between the sodium and pentane ring has kind of a "notch" at the base so it sits flush against the ring.

An example of how the bond should look.

goodbond.png (2.79 KiB) Viewed 2603 times

The second image shows what is currently generated. The base of the cram bond sits on the apex of the benzene ring bond and looks a little like it might lose its balance and fall off.

An example of how the bonds currently look.

badbond.png (2.96 KiB) Viewed 2603 times

Here is the code used to generate this image:

\documentclass[parskip=full]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{chemfig}

\begin{document}
\chemfig{*6(---(>C)---)}
\end{document}

Is there any way to fix this?


Thanks!
bytesmythe

[cgnieder]

I don't believe there is a general solution without redefining some internal code of chemfig. Maybe I'm mistaken?

However, there is a maybe a compromise by changing the offset of the particular bond:

\documentclass[parskip=full]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{chemfig}

\begin{document}
\setbondstyle{line width=1pt}
\chemfig{*6(---(>#(-1.5pt)C)---)}

\end{document}

cram.png (2.68 KiB) Viewed 2595 times