“As new versions were released, I kept up to date.” Metz has an academic site license for the department so that his students can use the structure building features for copying over to lab reports, papers, etc. Carlos Franco PhD of the Department of Chemistry at the National Pedagogical University of Colombia echoes the sentiment, saying that ChemSketch is “an excellent free software package that users can apply either in the classroom or in their chemical research.” Clyde Metz of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the College of Charleston came across ChemSketch at an American Chemical Society meeting via a demo disc in action.

“I saw a colleague using ChemSketch, and became amazed by its simplicity,” Barbaros Akkurt of the Turkish Chemical Society told us. So, what makes chemical sketching such a valuable tool for chemists and others whose research touches on this underpinning science? David Bradley reports on the views of ChemSketch users. Indeed, ACD/Labs own ChemSketch had, at the time of writing, reached its 341,320 th download in less than six years since the launch of the freeware version. It comes as no surprise that chemical-drawing packages are among the most popular software components available. Sketchbook Chemistry – Chemists think in pictures, structures are all. “ I made this drawing in less than five minutes, but it took me sixty years to be able to do that”

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