ACD/Labs is please to present our Medicinal Chemistry newsletter for April featuring ACD/1D NMR Assistant, aimed at easing the burden of NMR analysis on chemists. Get information on how you can download it free for 30 days. Also included are some tidbits about chemical nomenclature, and information on a feature new to ACD/PhysChem software.

 
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In this issue...
  • Try ACD/1D NMR Assistant Free for 30 Days!
  • Customized Property Profiles at a Glance—Watch the Movie
  • How Accurate are Published Chemical Names?
  • Try Our Nomenclature Quiz

NMR Made Easier...Just for Chemists.  Try it Free!
Are you tired of sharing finicky, hard-to-learn vendor software available on only one or two workstations?
Would you like to have desktop, and even remote, access to your data for easy viewing, printing, and reporting?
Could you use a little help assigning and interpreting your data?

Get help with ACD/1D NMR Assistant—a new NMR software package built entirely with the chemist in mind. It provides quick access to your NMR data for viewing, reprocessing, and analysis of your spectra, from the comfort of your own desk or office.

Furthermore, a feature unique to ACD/1D NMR Assistant is the ability to provide insight into a proposed chemical structure by helping to assign NMR data, and automatically evaluating the consistency between a structure and a 1H NMR spectrum. Inconsistencies are specifically highlighted, quickly focusing your attention on the problematic areas.

Click here to download a free 30-day trial today.

Property Profiles at a Glance with Quick Report
Looking for a quick way to obtain a snapshot of the property profiles of your compounds? The ACD/Quick Report interface (included in all ACD/Labs PhysChem software) was designed to allow you to customize the display of pertinent data. It provides the option to add color bins and text flags for at-a-glance review. Furthermore this simplified interface allows you to make structural changes on the fly, re-calculating the parameters at the click of a button.

Property profiles compiled in-house can help guide the day-to-day efforts of scientists without getting entangled in exhaustive property information and calculation protocols.

See this feature in action in a short demo movie.

Manual Nomenclature—We're Not as Good as We Think
Dr. Gernot Eller with the University of Vienna published a study in late 2006, which showed that of a sampling of 300 systematic names for organic compounds published by different authors in reputable scientific journals, nearly 25% were incorrect. Using software to generate chemical names produced better results than manual naming.
“…the most surprising outcome was that roughly one quarter of all manually assigned names were deemed unacceptable and thus useless.”
The study compared the quality of names generated by three popular and commercially available software packages, including ACD/Name. The result is that ACD/Name not only outperformed the average chemist, but was also the top performing software package evaluated in this study.
“Furthermore, the quality of names that are generated from ACD/Name is second to none; although possible, it was really difficult to find generated names that did not deserve being called 'preferable' (97%).”

Read the abstract and download the article (Molecules, 2006; 11; 925–928)
 Improving the Quality of Published Chemical Names with
Nomenclature Software.

Show Us Your Mad Skillz
We all learned it in school, but how have your nomenclature skills held up? Given enough time and a list of all the appropriate rules, you could correctly name pretty much any compound, right? Test your knowledge of chemical nomenclature with our quick quiz.

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