ChemDraw

ChemDraw
Developer(s)	Revvity
Stable release	23.1.1 / April 24, 2024; 3 months ago
Operating system	macOS, Microsoft Windows
Type	Scientific
License	Proprietary
Website	ChemDraw on Revvity Signals website

ChemDraw is a molecule editor first developed in 1985 by Selena "Sally" Evans, her husband David A. Evans, and Stewart Rubenstein^[1]^[2] (later by the cheminformatics company CambridgeSoft). The company was sold to PerkinElmer in 2011.^[3] ChemDraw, along with Chem3D and ChemFinder, is part of the ChemOffice suite of programs and is available for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.

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Chemical structure to name conversion
Chemical name to structure conversion
NMR spectrum simulation (¹H and ¹³C)
Mass spectrum simulation
Structure cleanup
Draw ligand Structure
An extensive collection of templates, including style templates for most major chemical journals.
Export to SVG
Export to PDF (Mac Version only)

The native file formats for ChemDraw are the binary CDX and the preferred XML-based CDXML formats. ChemDraw can also import from, and export to, MOL, SDF, and SKC chemical file formats.

SDK for ChemDraw enables third-party developers to write plugins. For example, Quick HotKey helps to set up HotKeys in interactive mode instead of manually editing the text file.

The plugin website http://www.cambridgesoft.com/services/documentation/sdk/ appears to have been abandoned, and redirects to Revvity Signals' website.

[1]
Halford, Bethany (2014). "Reflections On ChemDraw". C&EN. 92 (33): 26–27. doi:10.1021/cen-09233-scitech1. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
[2]
Evans, David A. (2014-10-13). "History of the Harvard ChemDraw Project". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53 (42): 11140–11145. doi:10.1002/anie.201405820.
[3]
"Announcing CambridgeSoft from Perkin Elmer". Archived from the original on 2014-09-11. Retrieved 2014-09-09.

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David A. Evans (2014). "History of the Harvard ChemDraw Project". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53 (42): 11140–11145. doi:10.1002/anie.201405820. PMID 25131311.