CS ChemDraw Pro provides specialized tools for drawing and publishing chemical structures quickly and professionally. Chemists who try ChemDraw immediately discover just how easy chemical publishing can be.

With new and improved features, cross-platform and WWW compatibility, you can use ChemDraw to communicate structures and mechanisms faster and easier than ever before, whether in print on the WWW. ChemDraw is integrated with ChemOffice for quick access to databases and 3D molecular modeling. There's even easy calculation of important chemical information such as empirical formula and elemental composition, and a chemical syntax checker.

ChemDraw Pro provides all of the features of the standard version plus user-definable templates and structure abbreviations, color, and complete information integration (MACCS, CAS, ISIS/Base, ISIS/Host, SMILES).

You will find the same excellent quality if you are working with ChemDraw for Windows, Macintosh or UNIX. You can even use one version to open a file created by another!

Join the thousands of chemists worldwide who use ChemDraw, the standard for drawing chemical structures and reaction mechanisms.

ChemDraw 4.0 is a major update to the world's most popular structure drawing program. The new features in Version 4.0 give you plenty of reason to upgrade, while the interface remains familiar to the long-time user. Expanded database compatibility, enhanced chemical intelligence, and powerful new publishing options are the keys to the new ChemDraw's superiority.

Features

CS ChemDraw Ultra

ChemDraw Ultra provides the user with valuable additional resources. In addition to ChemDraw Pro, the package includes ChemFinder Std, ChemInfo Std, and ClipArt Pro, allowing easy access to databases, information on thousands of compounds, and professional artwork.

Components of ChemDraw Ultra

• CS ChemDraw Pro
  The undisputed standard of chemical structure drawing

• CS ClipArt Pro
  The fast and easy way to add drawings of equipment and apparatus to your presentations or publications.

• CS ChemFinder Std
  A chemical database application which enables you to build your own chemical desktop organization system, or access commercial databases.

• CS ChemInfo Std
  A limited collection of databases for ChemFinder, with a chemical catalog from Maybridge, 3D structures from the NCI database, ISI's Index Chemicus, and compounds from the WWW.

CS ChemDraw Pro
Premier Drawing and Information Query

• User definable templates & quick access palette
• Color drawing and output
• Advanced database query and searching features - New
• Query CAS via Questel DARC or Scifinder - New
• Connect to MACCS, ISIS/Base and ISIS/Host - New
• Integrates with Daylight SMILES, Synopsys Accord, MSI MOLFILE and CAChe Scientific
• Multi-Center Attachments for drawing organo metallics
• Varialble Attachemnts for drawing mixtures of isomers, e.g. o-, m-, p- isomers of chlorotoluene with a single structure
• Includes OLE2 for Windows for editing structures in MS Word using ChemDraw or drag-and drop for Windows and Macintosh
• Compatable with major chemical databases including OMG RS3 , QUESTEL DARC, Beilstein Crossfire, and ISIS/BASE
• Supports additional file formats: Darc F1 files(.F1D, .F1Q), ISIS/ Sketch, ISIS/TGF, MDL Reaction Files (.RXN), and MDL MOLFiles (.MOL), and GIF file support to publish your structures on the World Wide Web.
• Includes a Software Developer's Kit
  • *.CDX file format documentation to read and write *.CDX files for your own applications
  • External Menu Interface for customizing ChemDraw by adding your own menus
  • DDE Server to automate ChemDraw tasks (e.g., file conversion), using DDE commands
• Includes all features of ChemDraw Std

CS ChemDraw Std
Publication Quality Structure Drawing

• Predefined structure templates
• Dozens of bond and ring tools
• Supports EPS, PICT (Mac) or Metafile (Windows) formats
• Fully integrated with Chem3D, ChemFinder, ChemFinder WWW Server, MS Word and WordPerfect
• Click to add bonds and fused or spiro rings
• Bond types: solid, dashed, hashed, bold, wedged, hashed/hollow wedge, wavy, double (regular, bold, dashed), double dashed, triple, dative
• Pre-defined templates: rings up to 20 atoms, chairs, chains, aromatics, bicyclics, conformers, cyclopentadienyl rings, functional groups, polyhedra, stereocenters, amino acids, sugars and nucleic acids
• Publish chemical information in accepted styles of major journals or your organization •Reaction mechanism symbols
• Front to back ordering of objects •On-line help - New
• 41 arrows: curved, one-electron, resonance, equilibrium, dashed, bold, double, retrosynthetic & more
• Solid/shaded orbitals: s, p, d, sp hybrids & single lobes
• Brackets, boxes, arcs, ovals, & freehand curves
• Unlimited undos - New
• Publication quality PostScript and QuickDraw output
  

Text Editing and Analysis

• Quickly create tables
• Text/atom labels in any font, size, and style
• Hot Keys for instantly adding atom labels - New
• Calculate molecular weight/mass, calculate chemical formula, perform elemental analysis - New
• Syntax checker for correct structure labels - New