I think I'm coming pretty close to a definitive Jmol 3D-SEARCH SMARTS
definition. See:

http://jmol.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jmol/trunk/Jmol/src/org/jmol/smiles/package.html

I believe this comes VERY close to the Daylight definitions, with a few nice
additions.
Note that:

-- "aromatic" is fully defined, with no ambiguity whatsoever.

-- "Implicit hydrogen" is to be read as "a hydrogen that would be added by
the Jmol 'calculate hydrogens' command" and is fully defined here.

The only ambiguity that remains has to do with the models themselves -- if
model bonds are left as "aromatic" or "partial" the primitives h (implicit
hydrogen count) and X (total connections, including implicit hydrogens) are
unreliable. And, of course, if model bonding is all single bonds (as in PDB
files), although "aromatic" will be defined appropriately, implicit hydrogen
counts on groups such as HIS will not necessarily be appropriate. (Jmol
would add H atoms to BOTH N atoms of histidine.) In such cases, primitives h
and X are disrecommended.

Comments appreciated.


Bob

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Robert M. Hanson
Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
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If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.

-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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