Article: Switch to the main draw

Almost every scientific journal specifies ChemDraw as its preferred illustration format - one more reason why it’s the software of choice for chemical documentation.

Thomas Harding
Laboratory and Data Analysis Software Team

If you’re struggling along with other chemistry drawing software (or even more ambitiously, not using chemistry drawing software at all!), the launch of ChemDraw 8.0 this summer must surely mean it’s time to look at the software whose format is specified by 90% of journals.

We’ve put together a special “crossgrade” price offer for the many of you who are users of other systems but are now migrating to the world’s leading software for illustrating chemical structures ...and we’re already receiving a lot of orders.

The new ChemDraw is also available as part of a comprehensive package of applications, ChemOffice 2004. This includes Chem3D to transform your structures into 3D models for graphical examination and molecular modelling, and ChemFinder to file the structures (or reactions) and their associated information in a chemically intelligent database.

So what’s new in ChemDraw 8.0 to close out its position as the indispensable PC aid to anyone in the chemistry field? How about a new floating periodic table, a fast route to element information? Or a new TLC Plate drawing tool? We also like the facility to quickly examine potential mass fragments, by breaking bonds with the brand-new Mass Fragmentation tool. And take a look at one of our favourites, the new algorithm in the brilliant “Struct=Name” facility to generate systematic names from chemical structures, now offering comprehensive support for the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP) rules for absolute stereochemistry: a huge time saver.

The 2004 version is without a doubt thebest ChemOffice ever. Even those familiar with ChemOffice will be delighted by this new release. Whether it’s used to create professional chemical drawings and documents, evaluate models and compute properties or manage chemical information, we know the new ChemOffice will make chemists work more efficient and more effective.