On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:42 PM, JP <[email protected]> wrote:
> Monday stereochemistry blues,

sounds bad. ;-)

> Using RDKit 2011.09.01 on Ubuntu GNU Linux 10.10.
>
> When generating smiles via the "AssignAtomChiralTagsFromStructure"
> method not all stereo centres are defined as highlighted in the
> following (and attached) example:
>
> Expected smiles (including stereo)
> O=C1N2[C@@H](C(=O)[O-])C(C)(C)[S@](=O)[C@@H]2[C@@H]1NC(=O)Cc1ccccc1
>
> Actual smiles (including stereo)
> c1ccc(CC(N[C@@H]2C(=O)N3[C@@H](C([O-])=O)C(C)(C)S(=O)[C@@H]32)=O)cc1
>
> The S atom is a chiral centre (it has lone pairs), but has no
> stereochemistry defined.

The RDKit does not recognize three-coordinate sulfur as a stereogenic
atom; it should.
This is a bug 
(https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3453172&group_id=160139&atid=814650).

I'm not really sure how much effort this is going to be to fix, so I'm
not sure it will be fixed before the next release.

-greg

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