ChemDraw

ChemDraw is a molecule editor developed by the cheminformatics company CambridgeSoft. ChemDraw is, along with Chem3D and ChemFinder, part of the ChemOffice suite of programs and is available for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.

Features of ChemDraw 12.0

• Chemical structure to name conversion
• Chemical name to structure conversion
• NMR spectrum simulation (¹H and ¹³C)
• Mass spectrum simulation
• Structure cleanup
• An extensive collection of templates, including style templates for most major chemical journals.
• Export to SVG (Windows Version only)
• Export to PDF (Mac Version only)

File format

The native file formats for ChemDraw are the binary CDX and the preferred XML based CDXML formats.

Plugins

SDK for ChemDraw enables third-party developers to write plugins. For example - Quick HotKey helps to set up HotKeys in interactive mode, instead manually editing of text file. Plugin site

References

• Mills, N. (2006). "ChemDraw Ultra 10.0". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 (41): 13649–13650. doi:10.1021/ja0697875. 
• Li, Z.; Wan, H.; Shi, Y.; Ouyang, P. (2004). "Personal Experience with Four Kinds of Chemical Structure Drawing Software: Review on ChemDraw, ChemWindow, ISIS/Draw, and ChemSketch". J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 44 (5): 1886–1890. doi:10.1021/ci049794h. PMID 15446849. 
• Dieter Strack (2001). "ChemOffice Ultra 2000". Phytochemistry 57 (1): 144. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)00503-3. 
• Andreas Madlung (1999). "Digital Chemical Intelligence". Science 285 (5435): 1866–1867. doi:10.1126/science.285.5435.1866. 

See also

• XDrawChem