Hi Greg,

I checked, but I did not find any saved documents. The code is 10 years old.
What I wrote is from memory, plus code comments.



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Greg Landrum [mailto:[email protected]]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. Juli 2011 05:18
> An: Wolf Ihlenfeldt
> Cc: BlueObelisk-Discuss
> Betreff: Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] question: rules for absolute
> stereochemistry labels of chiral phosphates
> 
> Dear Wolf,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Wolf Ihlenfeldt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ghost atoms for stereo resolution are only added starting after the
> first
> > expanded shell, when a multi-bond to a new ligand is traversed, i.e.
> the
> > first time in the 2nd sphere. Adding ghost atoms directly  to the
> stereo
> > center when going to the first ligand sphere does not make sense
> because it
> > disrupts the  neighbor count, and implicitly the complete tree
> structure and
> > the assumed virtual geometry, of the stereo center. Single vs.
> double-bonded
> > ligands can still be implicitly prioritized via the atoms bonded to
> the
> > ligand in the 2nd sphere (at least when you work with hydrogen-
> complete
> > structures, which is what the R/S algorithm requires anyway).
> 
> Your explanation makes sense and is consistent with the behavior of
> ChemDraw and Marvin, thanks. Do you have a pointer to a publication
> where this is specified?
> 
> -greg


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