ChemDoodle 3
Faster, smarter and more powerful! ChemDoodle 3 is the next installment of the popular chemistry desktop software. ChemDoodle is a chemical structure environment with a main focus on 2D graphics and publishing to create media for your structures, reactions and spectra. ChemDoodle contains all of the features you would expect from software that costs thousands of dollars for a very reasonable $59.95. ChemDoodle is very well supported and is being used in hundreds of institutions around the world.
If you are looking for a chemical sketcher or an alternative to your current chemical drawing application, there is no better choice than ChemDoodle. ChemDoodle works on all operating systems (both 32 and 64 bit), has one of the largest feature sets in the industry, has the most customizable graphics, pastes scalable vector graphics into Microsoft Office, iWork and OpenOffice (among others), and can read and write all of our competitors’ formats.
Publishing
ChemDoodle is the perfect tool for creating graphics for presentations and publications as you have full control over your chemical figures. Every last visual specification can be tweaked. This includes bond widths, stroke brush styles, how atom labels stack, the look of reaction arrows and the plots in spectra; the list goes on and on. Several common publisher presets are also provided, including ACS Document 1996.
ChemDoodle can paste scalable vector graphics into Microsoft Office, iWork and OpenOffice. Scalable vector graphics are essential as they can be resized and reshaped without any loss of resolution.
ChemDoodle is also the only chemical graphics tool for generating chemically related webpages. ChemDoodle will generate HTML5 based chemical images, animations and interactive components (slideshows, 3D scenes, sketchers) for use in your websites.
Widgets
ChemDoodle is a chemical structure environment and can do much more than just make pretty pictures. Contained within ChemDoodle are many smaller applications called widgets. Widgets perform very specific, but powerful, tasks that aid in creating your chemical graphics. One widget, MolGrabber, is a complete connection to the ChemExper, ChemSpider and PubChem databases. Just search for a molecule with this widget and any matches will appear; click and drag them right into your figures. Other widgets allow you to keep track of your drawing history, display statistics on your figures, manage templates, generate line notations, produce multiplets and much more!
These inner applications are the creative companions to this chemical drawing software that allow ChemDoodle to be a true sandbox, an application where anything is possible.
Compatibility
ChemDoodle can read and write 24 popular chemical filetypes for working with other chemical applications. These formats include other chemical sketching formats such as ChemDraw, ISIS Sketch, ChemSketch and MavinSketch files. ChemDoodle also interprets standard chemical formats including MDL connection table formats (.mol, .sdf, .rxn, .rdf) and chemical markup language (.cml). It also can parse and generate line notations such as SMILES and InChI.
ChemDoodle is also compatible with 3rd party applications and can paste scalable vector graphics into Microsoft Office, iWork and OpenOffice.
ChemDoodle is supported on all operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. We are also actively pursuing web based extensions to ChemDoodle that work in all browsers and on iPhone and Android devices.
Reactions
In other applications, reactions are implicitly built by placing molecules around an arrow. Molecules to the left are reactants and molecules to the right are products. While simplistic, this system fails when building complex reaction schemes and trying to precisely create a reaction data file can be a nightmare.
ChemDoodle possesses a much more robust system where molecules can be explicitly defined to reactions. You can opt to layout the reactants and products to the left and right of an arrow and have ChemDoodle implicitly define the reaction, or you can use the reaction building interface to drag and drop molecules into the reactant and product trays for more complex schemes. ChemDoodle will automatically place + symbols for you and will also clean your reactions for the most aesthetic figures.
File formats for chemical reactions are also supported. ChemDoodle allows you to read and write MDL reaction (.rxn) and reaction-data (.rdf) files with ease.
Spectroscopy
ChemDoodle is a complete environment for all things chemistry. In addition to structures and reactions, ChemDoodle can work with spectra. ChemDoodle reads and understands infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry from JCAMP-DX files. All spectrum graphics can be edited and ChemDoodle’s spectrum editor will allow you to focus in on a set of peaks.
ChemDoodle can also simulate ¹H and ¹³C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and explain it. Just drag a molecule onto the NMR Simulation widget to produce interactive spectra. Highlighting a peak will highlight the associated nuclei and vice versa. Clicking on the peak will display more information about the simulation and other NMR phenomena. This is a perfect teaching tool to use in organic chemistry classes.
Cheminformatics
In addition to ChemDoodle’s powerful chemical graphics and publishing environment, we have invested a lot of effort in providing a thorough database of elemental data as well as an advanced engine for performing cheminformatics algorithms. This engine is mainly focused on creating graphics, such as ring perception to ensure bonds face the right direction and structure depiction to clean your structures. However, there is also a growing number of descriptors that ChemDoodle can generate, from XlogP to TPSA to bond distance matrices.
ChemDoodle also has access to our extensive database of elemental data compiled from published resources. This database allows ChemDoodle to accurately perform many tasks, from populating the dynamic periodic table to deducing covalent bonds to calculating a molecular mass. The data itself can be viewed by opening various data tables in ChemDoodle and is associated with units and references.
Affordable
ChemDoodle is both very accessible and very affordable. Just $59.95. That’s less than half the cost of the average chemistry textbook! That’s $2,530 less than the retail price of our competition! Imagine what you could do with an extra twenty-five hundred dollars! We provide several options for purchasing ChemDoodle with larger discounts given for larger orders. Our user licenses are permanent and will last forever. You can move to different computers or switch operating systems, and your copy of ChemDoodle can come with you. For institutions of any size, an unlimited annual site license subscription is only $999. That’s many thousands of dollars less than you would pay for a site license from our competition.
Lastly, our support is free and our upgrades have also been free. If you still are not convinced, try a free trial! We ask for no information. Just click on the download here, and then evaluate ChemDoodle at your leisure. We know you will be impressed.
