26.1 Daylight SMILES

Unfortunately, there are a number of ambiguities in the original paper describing the Daylight SMILES syntax, that have led to different SMILES being accepted or rejected by independent SMILES parser implementations.

  Daylight Corina Corina Concord COBRA Synopsis OEChem
SMILES 4.41 1.6 WWW 3.2.1 3.21A 4.0 1.0B
C1.C1 Y Y Y N N Y Y
C%00CC%00 Y Y Y N N N Y
C(C.C)C Y Y Y N N Y Y
C(C)1CC1 Y N N N Y N Y
C(.C) Y Y Y N N Y Y
C() Y Y N Y Y Y Y
(CO)=O N N N N N Y N
(C) N N N N N Y Y
.C N N N Y Y N Y
C..C N Y N Y Y N Y
C. N Y Y Y Y Y Y
C=(O)C N Y N N Y N N
C((C)) N Y N Y N Y Y
C.(C) N Y N Y N N Y
C1CC(=1) N Y N N N N Y
C1CC(1) N N N N N N Y
C(C.) N Y N N N N Y
C==C N Y N N N N Y
C(1CC1) N N N N N N Y
C(1)CC1 N N N N N N Y

The OEChem SMILES parser actually has two modes. The default is relaxed which produces the results above and enables the SMILES extensions described in the next section. It also has a strict mode that may be used for validating SMILES strings that is far less forgiving about dubious SMILES strings.