Re: ORGLIST: Structures by E-mail.

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From: Jacob Zabicky (zabicky$##$bgumail.bgu.ac.il)
Date: Thu Jun 17 1999 - 05:55:36 EDT

Hello Thomas,

Very interesting! Perhaps you could tell the list where can one fetch the
SMILES application? From the mention of "Paste-Special" I surmise that a
Macintosh version exists. Am I right?

All the best

Jacob

>About Structures in E-mails.
>There is a format called SMILES which allowes structures to be encoded/decoded
>for sending in E-mails. For instance:
>O=C(O[C@@H]2[C@@H]([C$##$H](C)C)CC[C$##$H](C)C2)[C$##$H]1[C$##$H](C(O)=O)C1
>when cut out and pasted in for instance CS ChemDraw as PasteSpecial-SMILES
>would decode the structure which in this case is the mono-(+)-menthylester of
>(1R,2R)-cyclopropane-1,2-dicarboxylic acid. I guess other chemical
>structure-drawing programs have same feature. Do you people have these
>capacities in your programs? If so this would be a good way of exchanging
>structures.
> Jonas Nilsson <jonni$##$ifm.liu.se>


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