Latest version of successful chemical modelling program includes major improvements, including a new algorithm to automatically generate systematic names from chemical structures
Adept Scientific announces the availability of ChemDraw 8.0 from CambridgeSoft - the latest, most powerful and intuitive version of this state-of-the-art structure drawing package and productivity tool.
This is great news for ChemDraw users around the world who rely on their software for a wide variety of day-to-day tasks, including report writing, property estimation and even help with naming difficult compounds.
As with each new release from CambridgeSoft, ChemDraw 8.0 is once again a remarkable improvement over earlier versions of the software.
The developments in ChemDraw 8.0 focus on a number of areas: more drawing tools (building upon ChemDraw's long-standing reputation for chemical illustration power); enhancements to the user interface; and of course many new chemistry features.
There are a host of reasons why ChemDraw 8.0 should be every chemist's structure drawing and analysis tool of choice.
New Struct=Name algorithm - generate systematic names from chemical structures automatically.
Organic structures, single structures, chains, single rings, nearly all functional groups: ChemDraw 8.0 recognises and names them, with proper capitalisation, punctuation and use of font styles (italic, superscript, etc); proper identification, naming, numbering and alphabetisation of locants; and comprehensive support for the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP) rules for absolute stereochemistry.
Enhanced Name=Struct - the feature that automatically generates structures from chemical names, now boasts intelligent recognition and correction of typos - a great help if you're prone to keyboard errors or unsure of the correct spellings of chemical names.
New floating period table - keep information about all the elements at your fingertips.
New floating character map - add special characters from any font with a click of your mouse.
Creating labelled atoms and chemical formulae is now even easier.
New TLC plate tool - makes it easy to depict thin-layer chromatography plates within a ChemDraw document: draw them, import them, edit them, save them and print them out.
New structure perspectives tool - lets you change the perspective from which a structure is drawn, rotating structures to display 2D projections of 3D structures without losing the original 3D data.
Improved proton NMR predictions - they now use splitting patterns which make predicted spectra more realistic than line spectra.
Improved carbon-13 NMR predictions - shift values are, on average, more than twice as accurate as before.
New 3D query feature - in addition to storing and preserving 3D coordinates, ChemDraw can now represent 3D queries in 3D-enabled databases.
3D queries are particularly useful in pharmacophore searching, where the user is looking for a particular 3D relationship among atoms and bonds, for example in a series of potential receptor ligands.
New mass fragmentation tool - allows the examination of potential mass spectra fragment patterns by drawing lines across breaking bonds.
This mimics the behaviour experienced in a mass spectrometer, except that the user specifies which bonds are to be broken.
Enhanced chemical intelligence - interprets multi-step reactions and lays them out more elegantly.
This makes them easier to understand, without compromising the depiction of individual components.
