Chemspider can also provide you with a .mol file amongst other things.
http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.2424.html?rid=281bd645-a2c9-4d07-af08-c3148b323194
Best wishes
Julie

On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 at 11:55, Oliver Smart <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Harry,
>
> The SDF found at ChEBI is a 2D SDF with the coordinates used for the
> diagram. I do not think that ChEBI has
> 3D coordinates. Why not use PubChem instead as this does provide 3D sdf
> files?
>
> For your caffeine example:
>
> https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/64119
>
> There
>
>
> https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/CID/2519/record/SDF/?record_type=3d&response_type=save&response_basename=Conformer3D_CID_2519
>
>
> Provides a  SDF file.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Oliver
>
> p.s. I you are stuck with ChEBI identifiers it would be possible to
> programatically find the equivalent PubChem CID.
>
>
>
>
> On 6 Dec 2022, at 11:31, Harry Powell <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi folks
>
> Can anyone help with this?
>
> I must have missed something in the documentation, because I don’t
> understand why the .mol and .sdf files downloaded from
>
> https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi
>
> seem to have aromatic C-C bonds that are 0.825 Å long (it’s a few decades
> now since I solved any small molecule structures, but something around
> 1.395Å rings a faint bell).
>
> I need to have ligands that have realistic sizes, and while I’m perfectly
> at ease scaling the models to what I think are sensible sizes, I can’t help
> but think that this isn’t necessary and I’ve missed something somewhere.
>
> Here’s an example of a molecule that I used this morning -
>
>
> https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/saveStructure.do?defaultImage=true&chebiId=31332&imageId=0
>
> contents of downloaded file -
>
>
>  Marvin  01140911122D
>
> 15 15  0  0  0  0            999 V2000
>   -0.7145   -0.4125    0.0000 C   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>   -0.7145    0.4125    0.0000 N   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    0.7145   -0.4125    0.0000 C   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    0.7145    0.4125    0.0000 C   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    0.0000   -0.8250    0.0000 N   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    0.0000    0.8250    0.0000 C   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    1.4992    0.6674    0.0000 N   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    1.4992   -0.6675    0.0000 N   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    1.9841    0.0000    0.0000 C   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>   -1.4289   -0.8250    0.0000 O   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    0.0001    1.6500    0.0000 O   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    0.0001   -1.6500    0.0000 C   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    1.7541    1.4520    0.0000 C   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>   -1.4289    0.8250    0.0000 C   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>    2.0809   -1.5365    0.0000 O   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
> 10  1  2  0  0  0  0
>  1  2  1  0  0  0  0
> 14  2  1  0  0  0  0
>  8  3  1  0  0  0  0
>  4  3  2  0  0  0  0
>  7  4  1  0  0  0  0
>  1  5  1  0  0  0  0
>  5  3  1  0  0  0  0
> 12  5  1  0  0  0  0
>  6  2  1  0  0  0  0
>  6  4  1  0  0  0  0
> 11  6  2  0  0  0  0
>  9  7  1  0  0  0  0
> 13  7  1  0  0  0  0
>  9  8  2  0  0  0  0
> M  END
>
>
> Harry
>
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