> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Greg Landrum [mailto:[email protected]]
> Gesendet: Montag, 25. Juli 2011 20:15
> An: Wolf Ihlenfeldt
> Cc: BlueObelisk-Discuss
> Betreff: Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] question: rules for absolute
> stereochemistry labels of chiral phosphates
> 
> 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).
> 
> The more I think about this, the less sense it makes to me. For the
> purposes of determining the priority of the atoms bonded to the stereo
> center, one does not have to attach any ghost atoms to the stereo
> center itself (though that would be done to determine that center's
> priority), they are attached to the neighboring atoms that are
> multiply bonded to it. 

No, I do not think that is correct. The phantom atom addition is in my
understanding a synchronized process. Either you add to both atoms of the
multi bond (and that would include the stereocenter) or none. Adding phantom
atoms only at the outer atom of a multi bond is definitely not the correct
procedure.


In the case of the phosphate compounds I was
> asking about, this manifests as a ghost P attached to the doubly
> bonded O. The 1966 CIP paper clearly show this symmetric arrangement
> of ghost atoms in the text of section 2.2

I do not have access to this paper. Can you share a PDF?

> 
> This is clearly a special case, so this logic may not apply, but I
> would definitely like to see a published explanation. Anyone have one?
> 
> -greg


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