Hehe, that is why I keep my computers always really cold when I run RDKit ... 

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|  Markus Sitzmann
|  [email protected]

> On 20.08.2015, at 04:33, Peter Shenkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Maybe when you have a toolkit as blazingly fast as RDKit it captures the 
> chirality of N center before it has time to interconvert....
> 
> -P.
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:17 PM, John M <[email protected]> wrote:
>> More odd is the carbon stereocentre with two methyls...
>> 
>> Generally trivalent nitrogens are not considered chiral due to inversion of 
>> the lone-pair. The two usual exceptions are when they are a bridgehead or in 
>> a tight ring (cyclopropane). This is the same in most toolkits, the InChI 
>> technical documentation provides useful examples.
>> 
>> InChI actually only sees one stereo centre since it strips the proton off:
>> InChI=1S/C13H26N2/c1-4-14-8-5-12(6-9-14)15-10-7-13(15)11(2)3/h11-13H,4-10H2,1-3H3/p+1/t13-/m1/s1
>> 
>> It may well be chiral in this case but since it's not you should also 
>> strictly remove the other stereocentre in the para position to the nitrogen
>> 
>> For the record just tested and ChemAxon/CDK/OpenBabel do the same.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John W May 
>> [email protected]
>> 
>>> On 19 August 2015 at 09:00, Rob Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Dear RDKit community,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to use RDKit to read in Corina generated stereoisomers (from a 
>>> Mol file), assign chiral tags and stereochemistry to the structure and 
>>> output the canonical smiles string for each isomer of a given molecule (in 
>>> Python), when I do this, half the canonical smiles strings are not unique.
>>> 
>>> When I read in the output from Corina into an Indigo instance, then use the 
>>> canonical smiles from Indigo to create an RDKit molecule, canonical smiles 
>>> strings generated from the molecule objects are all unique.
>>> 
>>> I may be missing an option to enable RDKit to 'visualise' the chiral centre 
>>> adjacent to the protonated nitrogen, so if someone can spot where I've made 
>>> a mistake, I'd really appreciate it. I've included the output and Python 
>>> script below. If you require any further information, please let me know.
>>> 
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Rob
>>> 
>>> Output:
>>> 
>>> RDKit Read in of Molecule
>>> RDKit Output -  CCN1CC[C@@H]([N@@H+]2CC[C@@H]2[C@H](C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CCN1CC[C@@H]([N@@H+]2CC[C@@H]2[C@H](C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CCN1CC[C@@H]([N@H+]2CC[C@@H]2[C@H](C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CCN1CC[C@@H]([N@H+]2CC[C@@H]2[C@H](C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CCN1CC[C@@H]([N@@H+]2CC[C@H]2[C@H](C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CCN1CC[C@@H]([N@@H+]2CC[C@H]2[C@H](C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CCN1CC[C@@H]([N@H+]2CC[C@H]2[C@H](C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CCN1CC[C@@H]([N@H+]2CC[C@H]2[C@H](C)C)CC1
>>> 
>>> INDIGO Read in of Molecule
>>> RDKit Output -  CC[N@]1CC[C@@H]([N@@H+]2CC[C@@H]2C(C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CC[N@]1CC[C@H]([N@@H+]2CC[C@@H]2C(C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CC[N@]1CC[C@@H]([N@H+]2CC[C@@H]2C(C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CC[N@]1CC[C@H]([N@H+]2CC[C@@H]2C(C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CC[N@]1CC[C@@H]([N@@H+]2CC[C@H]2C(C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CC[N@]1CC[C@H]([N@@H+]2CC[C@H]2C(C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CC[N@]1CC[C@@H]([N@H+]2CC[C@H]2C(C)C)CC1
>>> RDKit Output -  CC[N@]1CC[C@H]([N@H+]2CC[C@H]2C(C)C)CC1
>>> 
>>> Python script :
>>> 
>>> from rdkit import Chem
>>> import subprocess # Used to run Corina
>>> from indigo import *
>>> 
>>> def runCorinaTest(inputMol):
>>>     indigo = Indigo()
>>> 
>>>     molFile = Chem.MolToMolBlock(inputMol)
>>>     
>>>     corinaCommand = "echo \'" + molFile + "\' | "
>>>     # Then Corina - generate stereoisomers...
>>>     corinaCommand = corinaCommand + "/apps/corina/corina -t n -d 
>>> canon,stergen,preserve,names,wh,flapn,msc=7,msi=128 -i t=sdf"
>>>     corinaResult = subprocess.check_output([corinaCommand], shell=True) # 
>>> Gives the stereoisomer species as an SDF string
>>>     
>>>     allMoleculeObjects = []
>>>     allMolecules = corinaResult.split("$$$$\n") # Separate Corina output 
>>> into individual molecules
>>>     allMolecules = allMolecules[0:len(allMolecules)-1]
>>> 
>>>     print("RDKit Read in of Molecule")
>>>     
>>>     for eachMolecule in allMolecules:
>>>         eachMolecule = eachMolecule + "$$$$\n"
>>>         mol = Chem.MolFromMolBlock(eachMolecule, sanitize=True, 
>>> removeHs=True, strictParsing=False)
>>>         Chem.rdmolops.AssignAtomChiralTagsFromStructure(mol, 
>>> replaceExistingTags=True)
>>>         Chem.rdmolops.AssignStereochemistry(mol)
>>>         print("RDKit Output -  " + Chem.MolToSmiles(mol, 
>>> isomericSmiles=True))
>>> 
>>>     print("INDIGO Read in of Molecule")
>>>     for eachMolecule in allMolecules:
>>>         eachMolecule = eachMolecule + "$$$$\n"
>>>         mol = indigo.loadMolecule(eachMolecule)
>>>         # print("Indigo Output - " + mol.canonicalSmiles())
>>>         # Use Indigo Canonical Smiles to create RDKit molecule
>>>         mol = Chem.MolFromSmiles(mol.canonicalSmiles())
>>>         if mol is not None:
>>>             print("RDKit Output -  " + Chem.MolToSmiles(mol, 
>>> isomericSmiles=True))
>>> 
>>>     return 0
>>> 
>>> mol = Chem.MolFromSmiles("CC(C)C1[NH+](C2CCN(CC)CC2)CC1")
>>> z = runCorinaTest(mol)
>>> 
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