identifying functional groups

User 1357fb3abb

12-03-2015 14:27:44

Is there a way to identify and catagorise the H-bond donor / acceptor functional group from a large dataset without having to specify a filter?

ChemAxon d51151248d

17-03-2015 13:00:53

Dear Lauren,


You can use our cxcalc command line tool to solve this problem. I give you an example, in which molecules are read from a SMILES file, and writes the acceptor multiplicity for each atom in the molecule into a string. I put this string as an SDF property (named ACCEPTOR) and write it to SDF output (acc.sdf):


  cxcalc -S -t ACCEPTOR -o acc.sdf hbda -t acc nci700.smiles

You can also use the Chemical Terms evaluator function to calculate for lots of molecules, a whole JChem table for example:


 evaluate -e "acceptor()" -S -t ACCEPTOR -o acc.sdf nci700.smiles

You can calculate the donor multiplicity in the same way. I hope this helps. 




Daniel