ACD/Labs News Archives

TORONTO, June 24, 2003 - 250,000 ChemSketches
Company pride. This is the best description of what we feel for having distributed one quarter of a million copies of our chemical structure drawing software around the world. We are happy to have contributed to the dissemination of electronic tools which allow students, professors, and scientists worldwide to produce high quality chemical structure renderings for their publications and lecture courses. More...

TORONTO, June 6, 2003 - Reactive Reports Wins a Sci/Tech Web Award
Scientific American awarded Reactive Reports with a 2003 Sci/Tech Web Award. Reactive Reports was chosen in part due to its history of serving up "engaging news stories penned by science writer David Bradley". ACD/Labs is proud to support Reactive Reports and congratulates David on his award. Read more about this prestigious award on David Bradley's own page.

TORONTO, June 4, 2003 - ACD/PhysChem Selected to Teach Medicinal Chemistry at the Royal Society of Chemistry School
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) and The Royal Society of Chemistry today announced the incorporation of ACD/PhysChem, which offers tools for the prediction of PhysChem properties, into RSC's Medicinal Chemistry School. More...

TORONTO, June 2, 2003 - Advanced Chemistry Development FREE Naming Software Service Generates 100,000 IUPAC Names Around the World
Advanced Chemistry Development has been the premier supplier of quality systematic nomenclature generation for over half a decade. On June 2, 2003, ACD/Labs generated the 100,000th IUPAC Name from the I-Lab website. Our logs indicate that these IUPAC Names were generated for chemists around the world. More...

TORONTO, May 30, 2003 - ACD/ChemSketch Promotes Active Learning in Students to Improve Laboratory Performance
Do you wish you could promote active learning and stimulate higher overall cognitive participation of students in the lab? In his organic chemistry laboratory at Gordon College in Georgia, Prof. Allan Gahr uses ChemSketch in a pre-lab exercise to help students better understand the lab experiment they are about to perform. For most organic labs, a concept map can be easily constructed with the underlying hierarchical framework of synthesis, isolation, purification, and characterization of carbon compounds. In Prof. Gahr's lab, students are required to draw diagrams/pictures of each process step in the sequence to be performed, so that they are forced to run through the process mentally before attempt it in reality. As a result, the students gain a better grasp of the overall process and concepts, which allows them to remain in control with less guidance from the instructor or lab assistants. More...

TORONTO, May 21, 2003 - ACD/Labs Announces the Release of Version 7.0
ACD/Labs version 7.0 software was officially released today. Shipping has begun on updated and new products including the new ChromGenius, MS Fragmenter, ChemPalm, ChemPocket, and ChemCoder applications. For more information, please review the Product pages and our version 7 Press Releases.

TORONTO, May 8, 2003 - ACD/Labs is a Proud Sponsor of the IUBMB Satellite Meeting
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TORONTO, April 11, 2003 - ACD/Labs Congratulates the Winners of our ACS Spring ACD/ChemPalm Contest
Three lucky people were selected from all entries submitted in our ACD/ChemPalm daily contest held at ACS Spring. Each winner received a copy of ACD/ChemPalm with ACD/ChemSketch. ACD/ChemPalm enables storing, browsing, and searching of sophisticated chemical databases containing structures and accompanying analytical information on any standard PalmR OS-based PDA. Congratulations to: Roy Shenhar, Sally A. Henrie, and Bruce Lotz. We hope they enjoy their software.

TORONTO, April 9, 2003 - ACD/Labs Announces the Winner of the 2002 Users' Guide Lottery
Curtis MacIsaac, a student at the University of Prince Edward Island, told us that ACD/ChemSketch "really helped out with chairs in Organic Chemistry". After completing our User Guide Feedback form and sending us his comments, Curtis was selected as the winner of ACD/Labs' annual User Guide lottery. As the lucky winner, he has received a stand-alone copy of ACD/ChemFolder, uniting the excellent drawing capabilities of ACD/ChemSketch and the powerful database interface of ACD/HNMR, ACD/CNMR, and ACD/SpecManager. ACD/ChemFolder gives you the power to manage hundreds of separate files with chemical structures, reactions, and reports. You can create and keep all your chemical databases in one easy to use program! More...

TORONTO, April 7, 2003 - Ten Years of Effort Finally Pays Off
After over a decade of human effort by an NMR spectroscopist, the synergistic efforts of ACD/Structure Elucidator and the scientist have finally resulted in the elucidation of the chemical structure of a complex alkaloid. For the full story, read the manuscript which has been accepted for publication in the Magnetic Resonance Chemistry.

TORONTO, March 10, 2003 - Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., Delivers 2D NMR Verification Capabilities
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is the first software company to deliver 2D NMR verification capabilities to scientists worldwide. ACD/Labs has been at the forefront of chemical structure verification using 1D NMR prediction for the past 8 years. Presently, ACD/Labs provides NMR prediction for a number of nuclei. The verification and automated assignment of chemical structures using ¹H, ¹³C, and ¹⁵N NMR prediction has now has been extended to include 2D NMR. More...

TORONTO, March 6, 2003 - Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., Delivers Methods for Encoding Chemical Structure Information into Barcodes with the Release of ACD/ChemCoder
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., is the first software company to provide a tool enabling users to encode and retrieve chemical structures and associated data by scanning 2D barcodes. Large volumes of complex data and inventory can be catalogued, differentiated, and controlled with more ease than ever before. More...

TORONTO, February 24, 2003 - ACD/Labs and Metabometrix Announce Collaboration
The application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to the study of biofluids is one of the primary activities presently underway in the field of metabonomics. One of the key innovators in this area is Metabometrix. ACD/Labs and Metabometrix announced the intention to provide access to assigned databases of NMR spectra of biofluids using ACD/NMR Manager as the delivery tool. Scientists at Metabometrix have been working closely with ACD/Labs to test new NMR phasing and baseline correction routines applicable to the spectra of biofluids and tolerant of the many associated issues. More...

TORONTO, February 24, 2003 - Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., Places Chemical Databases and Structures at the Tips of your Fingers with the release of ACD/ChemPalm
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce the launch of ACD/ChemPalm, which enables storing, browsing, and searching of sophisticated chemical databases containing structures and accompanying analytical information on any standard Palm® OS-based PDA. Up to approximately 20,000 structures can be stored and searched on a typical 8 MB PDA for convenient access. More...

TORONTO, February 13, 2003 - ACD/Labs Announces Collaboration with NMR Scientist at the University of Toronto
      Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs) announces a collaboration with Dr. Andre Simpson of the Environmental Science department of the University of Toronto at Scarborough. Dr. Simpson has received a contribution from ACD/Labs that will facilitate his research on structural categories of carbon in the terrestrial pool.
      In environmental samples such as soils, sea sediments, and air particulates, 1000's of structures can be present; making interpretation in the traditional sense very challenging. ACD/Labs software will significantly increase the efficiency of this interpretation process by allowing the identification of the unknown compounds more efficiently.
      Dr. Simpson will be presenting some preliminary results of this collaboration at the Experimental NMR Conference (ENC) in Savannah, GA. If you would like to attend his presentation at the ACD/Labs Seminar, sign up here: ACD/Labs ENC Seminar.

TORONTO, February 12, 2003 - ACD/Labs offers NEW Chemical Nomenclature Service
ACD/Labs is now offering a new Chemical Nomenclature Service, putting the power of our ACD/Name software to work for you on a structure-by-structure basis. We will use our powerful Name software to quickly and accurately name your compounds. Then, since we want nothing left to chance, our own ACD/Labs naming experts will review the systematic nomenclature to certify that the name is correct. Whether you have an organic, biochemical, or, in some cases, an organometallic structure, and whether you need IUPAC or CAS Index rule-based names, we will do our utmost to provide a systematic name. Read more about our Chemical Nomenclature Service.