OBCHIRAL(1)

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🦋 obchiral(1) — the chirality printer, bestie edition ✨

okay so real quick, this is page one of the User's Reference Manual — it's obchiral, and yes it's a whole vibe 💅

✨ NAME ✨

obchiral — prints out the molecular chirality info, no cap 🧚

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

obchiral filename

like, that's it. one file, one argument, go off 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the obchiral program is literally a tool that prints the chirality information for all the molecules in a file. every single one. all of them. 🙈

and lowkey the other thing it does? it also serves as example code for using the Open Babel library (libopenbabel). so it's giving "useful utility" and "study material" at the same time — main character energy fr fr 🌈

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

ok so here's the moment you've been waiting for:

obchiral pyridines.sdf

ate. no notes. 💅

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

the web pages for Open Babel can be found at: <https://openbabel.org/> — go click around, iykyk 🔥

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the obchiral program was written by Nick England ✨

Open Babel is developed by a cast of many, including current maintainers Geoff Hutchison, Chris Morley, Michael Banck, and innumerable others who have contributed fixes and additions. for more contributors to Open Babel, see <https://openbabel.org/docs/Introduction/thanks.html> — seriously, so many people, we love them 🌸

Copyright (C) 2005 Nick England. Some portions Copyright (C) 1998-2001 by OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc. Some portions Copyright (C) 2001-2007 by Geoffrey R. Hutchison and other contributors.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU General Public License for more details. (yes, uppercase, because it's serious business 💀 don't skip it.)

and that's the whole page bestie 🦋 this was Open Babel 3.2, dated May 26, 2026 — catch you on the next man page, mwah 💜🎀

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