How about "explicit",  rather than "physical", hydrogens?

-P.
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On Sep 9, 2016 1:57 AM, "Greg Landrum" <greg.land...@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> On 09/08/2016 02:26 PM, Brian Kelley wrote:
>> > Dimitri, Hs are removed.
>> >
>> > Their is a removeHs argument in MolFromMolBlock (python) that defaults
>> to
>> > true.
>> >
>> > There is a corollary in SDMolSupplier if you are using that.
>> >
>> > supplier = SDMolSupplier(filename, removeHs=false)
>> >
>> > if this helps.
>>
>> Thank you, it does:
>> rdkit.Chem.SupplierFromFilename(sys.argv[1], removeHs = False ).next()
>> returns a molecule with -- presumably "physical" -- hydrogens.
>>
>
> "Physical hydrogens" (I'm not sure that I like that term, but since I
> don't have a ready alternative other than "hydrogens that are in the graph"
> I will use it for now) are actually present in the graph, if you do
> mol.Debug(), Chem.MolToMolBlock() for Chem.MolToSmiles() you will see them.
>
>
>> The reason I ask is if they're removed and re-added, I'd worry about
>> their indexes matching what's in the source file. Which might matter in
>> the case of e.g. stereospecifically assigned methylene protons. (Or so
>> they tell me ;)
>
>
> This is absolutely correct: if you remove the Hs and then later re-add
> them it is extremely unlikely that you will end up with the same H indices
> before and after the change. It makes much more sense to just use
> removeHs=False
>
> -greg
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