OPSIN wouldn't help very much here, as it deals with the inverse problem, i.e. 
name to structure. 

George. 


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On 27 Aug 2013, at 19:40, Vladimir Chupakhin <chu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> did you tried http://opsin.ch.cam.ac.uk/ ?
> 
> Vladimir Chupakhin
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Markus Hartenfeller 
> <markus.hartenfel...@molecularhealth.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sergio,
>> 
>> here is a solution that uses a free web service offered by the NIH. 
>> 
>> It's independent of the rdkit but rather slow. Anyway, if you don't need to 
>> process too many molecules at a time or if time is not the critical factor 
>> maybe it could serve as an intermediate solution:
>> 
>> 
>> import urllib2
>> 
>> def smi_to_iupac(smi):
>>     
>>     try:
>>         url = 
>> 'http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/chemical/structure/'+smi+'/iupac_name'
>>         
>>         iupacName = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
>>         #print iupacName
>>         return iupacName
>>     
>>     except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
>>         print "HTTP error: %d" % e.code
>>         return None
>>     except urllib2.URLError, e:
>>         print "Network error: %s" % e.reason.args[1]
>>         return None
>>     except:
>>         print "conversion failed for smiles "+ smi
>>         return None
>>         
>> smiles = ["CC(O)C","CC(=O)O",       
>> "O=C2OCC(=C2\c1ccccc1)\c3ccc(cc3)S(=O)(=O)C"]
>> 
>> for s in smiles:
>>     print smi_to_iupac(s)
>> 
>> 
>> returns
>> Propan-2-ol
>> acetic acid
>> 4-(4-methylsulfonylphenyl)-3-phenyl-5H-furan-2-one
>> 
>> By the way, this service offers conversions between many different     
>> molecule formats/identifiers. I have used it in the past for CAS number 
>> look-up.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Markus
>> 
>> 
>> On 08/27/2013 05:21 PM, Sergio Martinez Cuesta wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> is there any IUPAC name generator in RDKit?
>>> 
>>> e.g. for transforming "CC(C)O" into "propan-2-ol" ?
>>> 
>>> Many thanks
>>> Sergio
>>> 
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