ChemSketch Overview
Draw Molecular Structures and Communicate Scientific Ideas
ACD/ChemSketch is a molecular structure drawing application with all the reporting features you need. ChemSketch is used by millions of scientists worldwide.
ChemSketch also calculates a variety of molecular descriptors and will generate IUPAC names for small molecules.
- Draw chemical structures
- Calculate molecular descriptors
- Generate IUPAC names
- Create professional reports
Benefits
Advanced Structure Drawing Software
Easy to Use
Comprehensive Structure Editor
High Quality Output
Affordable
Learn how to draw carbon chains, add heteroatoms, rearrange structures, generate IUPAC names, in this introductory video.
Customer Reviews
ChemSketch has been downloaded by >2.5 million users worldwide.
Product Features
Features of ChemSketch
- Draw molecular structures such as organic molecules, organometallics, biomolecules, polymers, 2D and 3D structure representations, delocalized Markush structures, peptide sequences
- Edit structures to customize the chemical bond type, stereo configuration, atom type and charge, radical label, atom numbering, and more
- Easily draw reactions and complex chemical schema (including biotransformation maps)
- Label reaction arrows with specific experimental conditions
- Associate atoms in reactant to product schemes with atom-atom mapping
- Insert pre-drawn templates of amino acids, aromatics, carbohydrates, steroids, sugars, and more
- Use graphical templates to insert objects including molecular orbitals, Lewis structures, Newman projections, laboratory equipment, and more
- Generate structures from InChI or SMILES strings, or copy/paste from ChemDraw
- Search the Dictionary of >170,000 systematic, trivial, and trade names
- Generate suggested tautomeric forms of your drawn structure
- Generate all possible structures for a given Markush representation
- Produce an optimized 3D model of your 2D structure
- Import and export structure files in a variety of standard file formats.
Review the list of supported formats
- Create comprehensive reports
- Embed structures, schema, and other chemical information directly into Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents, or any OLE-supported application
- Produce publication-ready figures for popular journals, e.g., ACS, RSC, Helvetica, and more
- Name molecular structures according to IUPAC rules *
* Generation of IUPAC names in ACD/ChemSketch is limited to structures with up to 50 atoms (restricted to H, C, N, P, O, S, F, Cl, Br, I, Li, Na, and K), 3 cycles, and 100 characters. For expanded chemical structure naming capabilities see ACD/Name.
- Predict a variety of molecular properties from structure including:
- Molecular weight
- Formula
- Formula weight
- Density
- LogP
- Percentage composition
- Molar refractivity
- Refractive index
- Molar volume
- Density
- Parachor
- Structural formula
- Surface tension
- Calculate quantities for chemical reactions and solutions
- Search files by chemical structure in ACD/Labs, FASTA, HELM, ChemDraw, BIOVIA, Adobe, and Microsoft® Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file formats
- Search for structures in EPA iCSS, PubChem, and eMolecules databases
Pricing
A Complete Software Package for Drawing Chemical Structures
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- Software License (1 year maintenance included) – $819.00
- Software License (2 years maintenance included) – $949.00
- Software License (3 years maintenance included) – $1,089.00
- Subscription License (Maintenance included, billed annually until cancelled) – $320.00
- 30 Day Free Trial – $0.00
Learn More about ChemSketch
Supported File Formats
Vendor or File Format | Data Format | Comments |
Chemical Drawings | ||
ACD/Labs | *.sk2 | |
ChemAxon Marvin Sketch | *.mrv | Input only |
Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA Draw | *.skc | Formerly ISIS Sketch, MDL Draw, Symyx Draw, and Accelrys Draw |
PerkinElmer ChemDraw | *.cdx, *cdxml, *.chm | |
Adobe Acrobat | Output only | |
Chemical Structures and Reactions | ||
Chemical Markup Language | *.cml | Output only |
FASTA formats | *.fasta and other | Peptide sequences |
InChI | Text string | |
InChIKey | Text string | Output only |
MOL files | *.mol | |
Pistoia Alliance HELM | *.helm, *.xhelm | Peptide sequences, input only for xhelm files |
Reaction Files | *.rxn | |
SMILES | Text string | |
Images | ||
GIF image format | *.gif | |
JPG image format | *.jpg | Input only |
Paintbrush | *.pcx | Output only |
PNG image format | *.png | |
TIFF Bitmap | *.tif | Output only |
Windows Bitmap | *.bmp, *.dib | |
Windows Metafile | *.wmf |
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