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Hi, I would appreciate it if you could forward the information you receive, if
you don't summarize it for the net.
Thanks,
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Dear Fellows,

first of all, I would like to wish a happy and cheerful New Year to everyone on
this list! As a matter of fact, I promised still in 1994 to give a summary
about the synthesis planning expert systems. Here you are!
Thanks again to everyone for helping me to get the taste of this topic. As it
comes from the following messages, the LHASA, CAMEO and CHIRON are the most
favourable softwares. Please, let me know if there is anything else!


		  		THE SUMMARY

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>From dimitris@3dp.com  Tue Nov 29 19:41:34 1994

There are a few around, but the most advanced is LHASA (Logic and Heuristics
Applied to Synthetic Analysis) out of EJ Corey's group at Harvard. For more
information, contact:

Dr. Alan Long
Director
Department of Chemistry
Harvard University
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel: (617) 495-4283
e-mail: long@chemistry.harvard.edu.

or EJ himself at the same address. Please let me know if you need more
information or can't get through to Alan.

Dimitris K. Agrafiotis, PhD             | e-mail: dimitris@3dp.com
3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc.     | tel:    (215) 222-8950
3700 Market Street                      | fax:    (215) 222-8960
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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>From BRIGGS@kitten.chem.uh.edu  Tue Nov 29 19:49:14 1994

Rob,

   Check out CAMEO (Computer Assisted Mechanistic Evaluation of
Organic Reactions) from the Jorgensen group at Yale. CAMEO predicts
plausable results of an organic reaction based on the starting
materials and conditions. The algorithms used in CAMEO are based
on mechanistic rules/trends derived from the literature (i.e. NOT
database driven). Prof. Jorgensen can be reached at:
bill@doctor.chem.yale.edu

Jim Briggs
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>From MARTIN%cmda@randb.abbott.com  Tue Nov 29 20:00:16 1994

You might be able to get Chiron from Stephen Hanessian at the University
of Montreal. I think the price is nominal. Email hanessia@ere.umontreal.ca.

Yvonne Martin
Abbott Laboratories
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>From eduffy@laplace.csb.yale.edu  Tue Nov 29 21:56:37 1994

A portion of Bill Jorgensen's group at Yale develops
CAMEO (Computer Assisted Mechanistic Evaluation of
Organic Reactions).  They may be reached through Bill:
bill@adrik.chem.yale.edu.  In addition, here is the
lead reference:

Jorgensen, W.L.; Laird, E.R.; Gushurst, A.J.; Fleisher, J.M.;
Gothe, S.A.; Helson, H.E.; Paderes, G.D.; Sinclair, S.
"CAMEO:  a program for the logical prediction of the products
of chemical reactions."  Pure & Appl. Chem. (1990) v.62, 1921-1932.
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>From Harold_Helson@camsci.com  Wed Nov 30 16:15:47 1994

Another program is CAMEO, on which I worked as a graduate student.  It
operates in the forward (as opposed to retrosynthetic) direction, predicting
the products of organic reactions given starting materials and conditions.
For further information contact Professor William Jorgensen at bill@adrik.chem.
yale.edu.

Harold Helson
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>From blurock@risc.uni-linz.ac.at  Wed Nov 30 18:02:02 1994

In response to your inquiry about synthesis design programs, I could
mention the system developed here.  It is described in the paper:

  J. Chem. Inf. Comp. Sci.  30, pg 505 (1990)
  Computer-Aided Synthesis Design at RISC-Linz: Automatic Extraction
          and Use of Reaction Classes

I plan to release it to public domain eventually.  It runs in COMMON LISP
under CLX (an X-window interface for LISP - public domain).  At the
moment it is a bare-bones system with no database.  Part of the work
toward releasing it to public domain will be building up (through its
analysis techniques) a rudimentary database.
It is still in its infancy in regards to 'real' organic reaction
searches (This is mainly due to the database), but all the mechanisms
are there (with room for improvement).
I would be interested to know in more detail your intentions.  This is
partly for the pragmatic reason that I am only able to work on it in
my sparse 'spare time' (thus progress towards public domain is still
months away) and would be seriously interested in cooperations in
reactivating the system (it has been dormant for a couple of years).

Edward S. Blurock
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>From larouche@ERE.UMontreal.CA  Wed Nov 30 19:50:57 1994

   Here are some information about computer programs out of S. Hanessian's
group at Universite de Montreal.
For more information, please send email to hanessia@ere.umontreal.ca

The Chiron Program (version 4.22)
---------------------------------
The Chiron Computer Program is an interactive program for the analysis and
perception of stereochemical features in molecules and for the selection of
chiral precursors in organic synthesis.  It  features Computer Assisted
Stereochemical Analysis (CASA), and Computer Assisted Precursor Selection
(CAPS).  CASA is concerned with the recognition of stereochemical and symmetry
elements in a molecule.  CAPS  probes the structure in question and suggest
appropriate precursors from a data base of 4567 chiral and achiral molecules.
The Chiron program also has 3-D graphics capability and interfaces with sybyl,
macromodel, reaccs, x-ray data bases, etc.
Applications in research (drug design and synthesis, chemical diversity,
natural
and unnatural product synthesis.) and in teaching.  Available on Macintosh,
SiliconGraphics and V.A.X.

ChemProtect (version 1.0)
-----------
   ChemProtect is a  new software designed to help chemists in the selection of
protective groups in synthesis.
   ChemProtect works on the Apple Macintosh.  It is available in two versions
(English and French).  A modified version of this software is also available on
UNIX (Iris Series) and VAX/VMS.
   This software contains 346 protective groups and 161 reaction conditions for
a total of 55706 possible reactivities.  Finally, there are 1413 literature
references built in the database.  There are general references (reviews, etc.)
and specific references to the primary literature.
   ChemProtect is innovative in many ways since the interface is interactive,
intuitive and very easy to use.  It has three search options: Compatibility,
Deprotection and Incompatibility.
   - The Compatibility search allows you to find all protective groups for
selected chemical functions that will be stable to 1 up to 10 reaction steps
simultaneously.
   - The Incompatibility search allows you to look for conditions that modify
selected protective groups (up to 10 also).
   - The Deprotection search allows you to look for conditions that selectively
deprotect a set of protective groups up to 10 at the same time.

Benoit Larouche Agent de Recherche     | INTERNET :
larouche@chimcn.umontreal.ca
                Departement de Chimie  |            larouche@ere.umontreal.ca
	        Universite de Montreal | TELEPHONE: (514) 343-6111 x3969

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Rob,

You recently requested via CCL information regarding "expert systems
in synthesis design". I have pleasure in enclosing information
about LHASA, which in my opinion is the most sophisticated
retrosynthetic analysis program available. If you require further
information you may contact me or probably more approriately
Al Long.

Regards,

Craig A. Marby, Ph.D.


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 (_)/ (_)                    +1 617 495 2654 (work)
~~~~~~~~~~                   +1 617 482 3962 (home, not 24hrs)





                      The LHASA Program

     The computer program LHASA (an acronym for Logic and
Heuristics Applied to Synthetic Analysis), which has been
under continuous development at Harvard and various
collaborating universities for more than 20 years, is intended
to assist organic chemists in designing multistep routes to
complex molecules.  The program accepts as input a target
molecule drawn in the language of structural formulae that is
common to all organic chemists.  A perception of the target is
conducted to identify molecular features that influence the
development of retrosynthetic routes (e.g. functional groups,
stereocenters, rings, etc.) The user is then prompted to
specify a strategy and substrategy, or tactic, to guide the
retrosynthetic analysis.  Finally, the program selects
retroreactions ("transforms") from its chemical knowledge base
in accordance with the processing tactic and applies these
transforms to generate retrosynthetic precursors which are
structurally simpler than the target.  The user selects one of
the precursors for further processing, and the analysis
proceeds in an interactive fashion until readily available
hypothetical starting materials are obtained.


                     Graphical Interface

     The concept of communicating chemical structural
information graphically to a computer originated with the DEC
PDP-1 version of LHASA (called OCSS) in the late 1960's.  This
early effort used graphical displays on three CRT's
simultaneously, allowing coordinated viewing of a sketching
window, a target and precursor display, and a retrosynthetic
"tree".  The current version of LHASA uses a single CRT, with
control passed among several menus.  Interaction with the
program is entirely graphical, allowing chemists with little
or no computer experience to use the program effectively.
Considerable effort has been expended in the last few years to
enhance the user-friendliness of the program.  New features
include on-line setup menus for modifying run-time parameters,
graphical display of perception information, algorithms for
automated selection of strategies and tactics, and on-line
explanations of button functions.  LHASA supports a variety of
monochrome and color graphics devices, including X, the de-facto
graphics standard for windowing systems under VMS and Unix. The
LHASA program is now supported under VMS (both VAX and Alpha AXP),
as well as a number of Unix platforms.



              Transform Selection and Evaluation

     The task of choosing the best transforms for
retrosynthetic simplification of an arbitrary target structure
drawn by the chemist is daunting.  The variety of organic
structures is enormous, and the number of chemical reactions
which could be used to synthesize them is similarly
overwhelming.  LHASA uses a number of pattern-matching
techniques to narrow the search for transforms to a subset of
its knowledge base.  Some of these techniques are relatively
elemental, based only on atoms and the bonds between them,
while others rely on convenient "synthetically-significant"
structural features such as functional groups, rings, and
stereochemical relationships.  To further narrow the set of
transforms that passes pattern-matching, LHASA evaluates each
transform by reading and answering a list of
scope-and-limitations questions, or qualifiers, which
delineate precisely the molecular features required or
prohibited by the transform.  Knowledge base entries,
including these qualifiers, are written in a special chemical
English language, called CHMTRN, designed for LHASA and
interpreted on-line by the program.  Transforms passing all
stages of this detailed evaluation are shown to the chemist,
while failing transforms are killed and not shown.


                Strategy and Tactic Selection

     When planning a laboratory synthesis, the expert organic
chemist does not simply apply every reaction that might be
used to make the target structure and all intermediate
structures.  Rather, s/he identifies one or more strategies
and tactics to guide the analysis in the direction of maximal
retrosynthetic simplification of the target.  In a similar
fashion, LHASA uses strategies and tactics to emulate the
chemists' reasoning and limit the scope of the search for
transforms.  There are five major strategies in LHASA:
functional-group and pattern-based, topological or "strategic
bond", key-transform, stereochemical, and
starting-material-oriented.  To assist the chemist in
selecting strategies, a "LHASA Suggestions" mode has recently
been implemented in which the program suggests tactics based
on its perception of synthetically-significant structural
features.


                   Transform Knowledge Base

     The major focus of LHASA research at Harvard is in
developing sophisticated algorithms for selecting and
evaluating strategies, tactics, and transforms, rather than
the writing of the transforms for the LHASA knowledge base.
LHASA transforms are written to be very general, so that they
can be applied to any target structure containing the correct
retron, or keying substructure (ring, functional group
arrangement, etc.).  As such, they are difficult to write,
since a multitude of structural possibilities must be
considered, and also the necessary skills needed to write good
CHMTRN take time to acquire.
     The LHASA knowledge base consists, at present, of some
2400 transforms and tactical combinations of transforms. A
group of chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the United
Kingdom has already dedicated considerable effort to knowledge-
base expansion, with concentration in the area of heteroaromatic
chemistry. A total of approximately 700 transforms in the LHASA
knowledge base originate in the UK. Expansion of the knowledge
base is continuing and recently an effort to update some of the
older transforms has been undertaken.


                Other Related Software

     A small number of related programs have spun off from
LHASA as well.  While certain of these programs are of a
proprietary nature, others are available for general use,
among them DEREK (a substructure-based toxicology prediction
program), APSO (a program for teaching principles of synthesis
to organic chemistry students), and PROTECT (a
graphically-oriented program for identification of protective
groups in organic syntheses). Recently an interface to DEREK
has been added to the LHASA program, allowing the chemist to
directly use DEREK to process a precursor generated by LHASA
and hence view the compounds predicted toxicology.

                  International Distribution

     LHASA is used in approximately 20 industrial concerns and
academic institutions world-wide.  The LHASA group at Harvard
maintains an ongoing collaboration with groups in several
other universities, among them Leeds University (UK), the
University of Helsinki, the University of Nijmegen (the
Netherlands), and Chalmers Institute of Technology (Goteborg,
Sweden).  A non-profit corporation in the UK (LHASA UK, Ltd.)
has also been formed to coordinate the expansion of knowledge
bases for both LHASA and DEREK.


                  Recent Literature Reviews

E.J. Corey, A.K. Long, S.D. Rubenstein, Science 228 408 (1985).

A.K. Long, S.D. Rubenstein, L.J. Joncas, Chemical and
  Engineering News, 22 (1983).

For more information, contact:     Dr. Alan K. Long
                                   Harvard Chemistry Dept.
                                   12 Oxford Street
                                   Cambridge, MA 02138
                                   UNITED STATES
                                   +1 617 495 4283
                                   long@chemistry.harvard.edu


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>From LHASA UK (jan@mi.leeds.ac.uk)  Tue Dec 12 2:37:16 1994

 Dear Sir,

 	Just to let you know that there is an organisation called LHASA UK that
 distributes LHASA and CAMEO synthesis planning software to industrialists and
 academics in the UK and Europe. I will send (by post) information leaflets on
 this software to you. If you need to know any more, please get in touch.

 Yours sincerely,

 Dr. Jan J. Langowski
 LHASA UK Technical Manager



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From Jeffrey.Gosper@brunel.ac.uk  Tue Jan  3 12:33:31 1995
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From: Jeffrey J Gosper <Jeffrey.Gosper@brunel.ac.uk>
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Dear fellow netters,

I am making a demonstration version of my molecular animation program
're_view' freely available to interested parties.
RE_VIEW is essentially a molecular viewer, animator, analyzer, and MOPAC 
reaction path converter that runs under Windows 3

The major functions of RE_VIEW include the ability to:
1) Display and manipulate molecules in 3D;
2) Animate reaction pathways (or other multstep XYZ files);
3) Align the steps/frames within an animation, along a vectors or onto a plane;
4) Animate normal modes of vibration;
5) Monitor geometries (lengths, angles and dihedrals);
6) Provide tabulated geometrical data (which can be readily incorporated into
   spreadsheets); and
7) Automatically produce high quality 'ray-traced' images and 
   animation sequences.

At present review.zip can be obtained by anonymous FTP from ftp.brunel.ac.uk
in the /pc/chem directory. Also in this directory are two demo animation files
named claisen.zip and antimark.zip which (when unzipped) can be animated
using AAWin (or another .fli/.flc animator). AAWin, as well as other programs
that re_view' interacts with, can be found in subdirectories.

N.B. This version of re_view.zip may be freely distributed.

  

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Dear fellow netters,

After some initial testing (thanks to those involved) I have now 
developed my animation program (originally named mop2xyz now 
name RE_VIEW) to a point where I am freely distributing a demonstration
version of the program. At this point in time it is available by anonymous
FTP from ftp.brunel.ac.uk in the /pc/chem directory in a file named
re_view.zip. 

A number of other files are also located in this directory
and its subdirectory. Claisen and antimark.zip are sample demo animation
files suitable for AAWin (or another .fli animator). The other subdirectories
contain programs that re_view can interact with (including aawin).

RE_VIEW has many new features these are outlined below.

RE_VIEW is essentially a molecular viewer, animator, analyzer, and 
MOPAC reaction path converter. The program runs under Windows 3

The major functions of RE_VIEW include the ability to:
1) Convert MOPAC reaction coordinate (path) calculations into concatinated
   XYZ format files
2) Read/Write XYZ format files
3) Display and manipulate molecules in 3D;
4) Animate multistep XYZ files e.g reaction pathways obtained from MOPAC;
5) Align the steps/frames within an animation, along a vectors or onto a plane;
6) Animate normal modes of vibration;
7) Monitor geometries (lengths, angles and dihedrals);
8) Provide tabulated geometrical data (which can be readily incorporated into
   spreadsheets); and
9) Automatically produce high quality 'ray-traced' images and 
   (stand-alone) animation sequences.

This demonstration version is public domain and may be freely copied and
distributed (as a complete package).

Yours sincerely
Dr Jeff Gosper



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I would appreciate receiving a copy of responses you receive.  Thanks in advanc
e.  Pat Plummer, Univ. of MO

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Hi netters,

   I have an IBM running DOS that I want to hook up to the ethernet.
I am looking for TCP/IP programs (e.g. telnet, ftp etc..)
for accessing the internet (with a =>DOS<= IBM). I would prefer a 
program which has a vt240 graphics emulator and which is free.  
In general what are the good programs out there for this?

I will summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance,
Harry J. Guttman


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I am interested in studying the intercalation of some
aromatic nitro compounds into DNA.  Has anyone developed AMBER parameters for
an aromatic nitro group ?

A few attempts with CA-Online have not led to any references and I would
appreciate it if anyone that has parameters or references to parameters
would forward them on to me.

Thankyou

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A question for the group.  A rule of thumb that many medicinal chemists 
use is that adding a suitable hydrogen bonding group to an inhibitor can 
be worth about a factor of 10 in binding energy.  (Please note that I am 
excluding hydrogen bonding groups which are "mechanistic" in nature, e.g. 
the hydroxy group which mimics the catalytic water in HIV protease.)  The 
only systematic data I have at present is from Bohm's excellent study, 
wherein he found a hydrogen bonding group to be worth ~4.7 kJ/mol, which 
is around 7-fold.  

So: I was wondering whether anyone has compiled a list of experimental 
data for head-to-head comparisons of inhibitors which differ by only 
the presence or absence of a single hydrogen bonding group.  A related 
question: what is the largest effect seen?  Any other data, whether 
experimental, anecdotal, hypothetical, or delusional, would be welcome, 
and I will summarize responses.  

Thanks!


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From: Jing Kong <jkong@is.dal.ca>
Subject: Accurate basis set for H^(-1) (anion)
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Dear netters,

	I need an extended gaussian basis set for decribing H^(-1). It 
should include d-type functions. Any reference?  Thanks!

Jing 

