ACD/ChemSketch is an easy-to-use, chemically intelligent molecular structure drawing application, with more than 2 million users worldwide.
ChemSketch is a comprehensive structure editor with a variety of tools and functionality that ease the communication of scientific and chemical information.
The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI) is a character string generated by computer algorithms to facilitate the electronic treatment of chemical structures. InChIs are unique to the chemical structures they describe, making chemicals machine-readable and discoverable; InChI is the bar-code for chemical structures.
The InChI program includes the ability to generate an InChIKey—a condensed 25-character representation of the InChI string. This compact representation significantly expands the use of InChI encoding for structure specification and search, particularly over the Internet.
For more information visit the InChI Trust website at www.inchi-trust.org or the IUPAC website at www.iupac.org/inchi.
I find the ACD/ChemSketch software to be very intuitive. Furthermore, it appears to seamlessly integrate with other Microsoft Office programs, such as Word. Thomas J. Siepmann, Attorney; Birch, Stewart, Kolasch, & Birch, LLP
ChemSketch uses the powerful chemical name generation algorithms of ACD/Labs' well-known nomenclature software to generate names according to IUPAC rules.
Predict a variety of molecular properties from structure including:
Molecular weight
Formula weight
Density
LogP
Percentage composition
Molar refractivity
Refractive index
Molar volume
Density
Parachor
Structural formula
Conveniently search documents, applications, and third-party databases by name fragment, full structure, or partial structures.
ChemSketch is a popular alternative to the ChemDraw molecular editor, offering all the time-saving shortcuts, graphical templates, and communication tools you are used to.
Simply copy/paste, edit, or open existing ChemDraw (*.cdx) files, and save them in ChemSketch.
Many organizations and educational institutions conveniently provide ChemSketch site-wide, deployed on multiple computers for hundreds of users. Contact us to learn more about this option.
This is a quick walkthrough of the structure drawing tools for ChemSketch. 2.0mins
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Quickly create schemes and figures for reports and presentations with your own structure templates. 2.5mins
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Getting started using ACD/ChemSketch? Get comfortable with basic functionality using this guide.
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This Technical Note highlights several advanced drawing tools that are available in ACD/ChemSketch.
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This document outlines how to draw biomolecules within ChemSketch.
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