ChemDraw

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ChemDraw
Developer(s)Revvity
Stable release
23.0 / February 14, 2024; 38 days ago (2024-02-14)
Operating systemmacOS, Microsoft Windows
TypeScientific
LicenseProprietary
WebsiteChemDraw on Revvity Signals website

ChemDraw is a molecule editor first developed in 1985 by Selena "Sally" Evans, her husband David A. Evans, and Stewart Rubenstein[1][2] (later by the cheminformatics company CambridgeSoft). The company was sold to PerkinElmer in 2011.[3] ChemDraw, along with Chem3D and ChemFinder, is 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
  • Draw ligand Structure
  • An extensive collection of templates, including style templates for most major chemical journals.
  • Export to SVG
  • 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. ChemDraw can also import from, and export to, MOL, SDF, and SKC chemical file 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 of manually editing the text file.

The plugin website http://www.cambridgesoft.com/services/documentation/sdk/ appears to have been abandoned, and redirects to Revvity Signals' website.

References

  1. ^ Halford, Bethany (2014). "Reflections On ChemDraw". C&EN. 92 (33): 26–27. doi:10.1021/cen-09233-scitech1. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  2. ^ Evans, David A. (2014-10-13). "History of the Harvard ChemDraw Project". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53 (42): 11140–11145. doi:10.1002/anie.201405820.
  3. ^ "Announcing CambridgeSoft from Perkin Elmer". Archived from the original on 2014-09-11. Retrieved 2014-09-09.

See also