CCL: remove salts from compounds

[Christoph Allolio <Christoph.Allolio-x-mailbox.tu-dresden.de>]

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 Zitat von "amit dong dongamit123a/gmail.com"
 <owner-chemistry===ccl.net>:
>  Hi,
>  Is there any free tool that can be used for removing ions/salts from a large
>  library of compounds?
>  Thanks
>  AD
 Hi Amit
You may use the OpenBabel API (GPL), which has a StripSalts
 functionality. The molecule may be loaded for example from a SMILES
 string. It however only strips a disconnected fragment of a size
 smaller than a specified number of atoms.
 This can be implemented within a few lines of code and is suitably
 fast for several tens of thousands of molecules to be processed within
 a few minutes.
 If there is a better free way i'd like to know it too.
 Regards
 Christoph Allolio