With the release of ChemDraw 8.0 in March 2004, CambridgeSoft says it has once again advanced the capabilities of the leading chemical drawing software
New drawing tools, expanded prediction facilities, increased chemical intelligence, and versatile software interfaces make ChemDraw the absolute gold standard for chemical drawing, publication, and query preparation.
From its beginnings, ChemDraw afforded a way to draw accurate, chemically-aware structures for use as database queries, publication-quality graphics, and use in modeling and other programs that require an electronic description of molecules and reactions.
It continues to be the fastest, most accurate way to prepare chemical structures, with the highest-quality structure display both on-screen and for publication, and the most advanced and chemically intelligent drawing conventions.
The popular Name=Struct facility that generates structures from chemical names now recognizes typographical errors and offers an alternative.
This facility can generate structures from a huge range of chemical names, even when they do not conform to systematic rules.
The converse Struct=Name is an all-new facility that gives systematic names from structures, including stereochemical notation.
Going beyond simply drawing structures and reactions, ChemDraw predicts NMR spectra and properties, and interprets multi-step reactions.
Carbon-13 shift predictions are now more accurate, and splitting patterns are included in proton NMR spectral predictions, making the spectral graphs more realistic.
Potential mass spectroscopy results are shown by the mass fragmentation tool, which is activated by drawing lines over bonds to be broken.
A new thin-layer chromatography (TLC) plate drawing tool assists in depicting TLC results within a ChemDraw document.
Version 8.0 of ChemDraw packs its vast array of scientific and drawing capabilities into a modern, streamlined interface with floating information windows and toolbars, tabbed dialog boxes, and many more preferences and menu modifier choices.
ChemDraw now implements a rich polymer notation consistent with IUPAC nomenclature.
Tables of structures can be drawn, with different drawing settings for each structure, or even a mix of settings within one structure.
Atom numbering, borders, and annotations can be added to structures by themselves or within tables.
For advanced applications requiring external programmatic control of ChemDraw features, ChemDraw has a much-expanded OLE Automation Interface, as well as a browser Plugin and an ActiveX control.
