The universal chemical drawing standard.
ChemDoodle began as a quality and affordable chemical sketcher, and has since become the most powerful chemical publishing tool in the industry, supporting all platforms and with extensions to web browsers and mobile devices. Learn why thousands of institutions in over 50 countries choose ChemDoodle.
Packed with Features
ChemDoodle contains literally thousands of features for working with chemical graphics. The main uses are listed below and you can learn more about them by selecting the titles to the left.
Continuously Developed
We are always adding new features, and our customers continuously enjoy new updates with great new innovative solutions and tools that they have requested.
Major Features:
- Beautiful graphics. The graphics in ChemDoodle are of the highest quality, we urge you to compare them to other similar software tools.
- Spectroscopy. ChemDoodle supports spectroscopy input and can simulate mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- Reactions. Build reactions with powerful arrow tools and drag and drop interfaces. Cleaning tools allow you to easily produce the best figures.
- Calculators. Calculate many descriptors and properties, from molecular formulas and masses, to melting and boiling points, to bond distance matrices and isotopic distributions.
- Thoroughness. ChemDoodle contains all of the features you would expect from the most professional software and more. Found something missing? Tell us and we can add it.
- Web tools. Build ChemDoodle Web Components for use in interactive and educational websites. Take full advantage of the upcoming HTML5 technologies with ChemDoodle.
- Thorough documentation. In addition to this website, ChemDoodle comes with a free 200 page user guide to help you learn basic and advanced usage of the software.
- Fully customizable. You can customize every last detail of the graphics, and even customize how the application works.
- Intuitive drawing tools. ChemDoodle’s interface and controls are intuitive and easily learned by students as young as middle and high school.
- Read and write chemical file types. Supports ChemDoodle, ChemDraw, ISIS/Sketch, ChemSketch, MarvinSketch, MOLfiles, CML, SMILES, InChI, PDB and others; 25 in total.
- Glassware graphics. ChemDoodle contains a full library with beautifully drawn glassware vector graphics. More are added in each update.
- Compatibility with 3rd party tools. Paste scalable vector graphics into your favorite applications, like Microsoft Office, iWork, OpenOffice and Adobe tools.
- Widgets. ChemDoodle contains many mini applications for searching databases, simulating multiplets, drawing TLC plates, managing your history and other powerful tasks.
- Mobile tools. ChemDoodle has companion tools on the iPhone and Android devices and coming soon for iPad. You can transfer structures between desktop and mobile.
- Multiplatform. Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are fully supported. Need to change operating systems? No problem, ChemDoodle will come with you.
- Affordable. Even the most cost conscious student can fit ChemDoodle into his or her budget. Site licenses are affordable to any institution.
