On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Craig A. James wrote:
> Noel O'Boyle wrote:
>> Uncle Al claims no possible SMILES for his chiralanes:
>> 
>> http://www.coronene.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-8794

> I'm not sure what the challenge is.

I don't know the full chain which lead to that comment, but the source looks to 
have a posting on CCL, on the question of IUPAC naming:

Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Michel Petitjean petitjean.chiral : gmail.com" 
> <[email protected]>
> Date: November 20, 2009 8:26:23 PM GMT+01:00
> Subject: CCL: chemoinformatics / a nomenclature challenge

> Sent to CCL by: Michel Petitjean [petitjean.chiral%x%gmail.com]
> Dear CCLers,
> 
> Here is my challenge: assign a name to the [6.6]chiralane, C27H28.
> The connection table is available from
> http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.graphs.html#CHIR
> If somebody has a programme running successfully on this small molecule,
> please tell me and send me the name:
> until now, nomenclature assignment programmes failed !
> Furthermore, I would be delighted to know what name is
> generated from CAS or IUPAC rules.
> Many thanks.
> 
> All my best,


As for who "Uncle Al" is, try chopping off the URL from that comment to get
 http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
Draw you own conclusions of the content of that page, then look at the meta tag 
and you'll see "Copyright 2009 Alan M. Schwartz".

No idea who that is.

                                Andrew
                                [email protected]

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