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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
