inferring radicals from aromatic smiles

User c31567e5e3

03-07-2008 19:46:06

Greetings, I'm having problem getting JChem (3.1.12) to parse the following smiles properly:


Oc1c(-c2ccc(Cl)cc2)[n](=O)c3ccccc3[n]1=O


In particular, it's not clear to me why there are radicals attached to the two N atoms because the Kekule form


OC1=C(C2=CC=C(Cl)C=C2)N(=O)=C3C=CC=CC3=N1=O


seems to parse properly. Interestingly, PubChem's standardizer (http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/standardize/standardize.cgi) can handle the former but chokes on the latter.





Thanks for any pointers,


Trung

ChemAxon 25dcd765a3

04-07-2008 13:12:46

Hi,





I have just checked the latest Marvin 5.0.6 version and the bug is there.


So I have checked the new Marvin 5.1 version which comes out soon and the bug has been fixed in it already. No radicals in any case.





Anyway thank you for the report.





Andras