Thanks Paolo and Hannes for pointing me to sulfoxide. I am enlightened! I assume this is something that every chemist knows, but it's not mentioned in the Daylight SMILES documentation (or the OpenSMILES documentation), so I had no clue. I wonder how many more cases there are like that.
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