A . N . A: 10/09/14

Assalamualaikum!

Alhamdulillahirrabil alamin.

Gratitude we bid to Allah because giving us

another opportunity to present this entry on the topic CHEMSKETCH

Just to recap on the 30th October 2014 , our class had learned something that are new for most of us (I guess!!) . As you can see from the entry topic I will focusing more on ChemSketch

I will just give a brief explanation regarding ChemSketch . Basically ChemSketch is a chemically intelligent drawing interface that allows you to draw almost any chemical structure including organics, organometallics, polymers, and Markush structures. Use it to produce professional looking structures and diagrams for reports and publications. It also includes features such as calculation of molecular properties (e.g., molecular weight, density, molar refractivity etc.), 2D and 3D structure cleaning and viewing, functionality for naming structures (fewer than 50 atoms and 3 rings), and prediction of logP.

This software is very useful for lecturers/ teaches in using it for aids of teaching

At first when you open the software it will appears the same as in the picture below . To start drawing you need to switch to draw mode(Top left hand side of software).

Alhamdulillah within the 3 hours given to us we are able to complete to draw some graphical objects using ChemSketch as listed below:

Energy of reaction diagram
Orbitals
Vacuum Distillation Apparatus
Two-chain DNA Strand
Lipids

Here are some drawings that we had done with the help of my team members according to the list above:

1)Energy of reaction diagram

The challenge that we had encountered in this part is drawing the word"Chemistry" manually and must be as nice as possible

Instructions:

Switch to Draw mode and click Polyline .

then

use same polyline to draw x & y axis

2)Orbitals

Types Of Orbitals

Instructions:

Make sure you are in the draw mode and click Polygon .

3)Vacuum Distillation Apparatus

Instructions:

In the Template Window , from the Template list, choose Lab Kit.

then,

add text and callouts to explain the apparatus

4)Two-chain DNA Strand

Instructions:

This drawing also using the polyline.

5)Lipids

Instructions:

Click Ellipse for the circle

and

polyline for carbonic tail

Benefits of using this tool:

Visualize chemical structures in 2D or 3D to gain more insight into spatial configurations, and relationships to molecular properties
Create professional reports, working with structures, text, and graphics simultaneously

ACD/ChemSketch also allows you to check other tautomeric forms for your drawn structure. Consideration of tautomeric forms is very important for structure searching, predictions (such as physicochemical properties, i.e., pK_a), and interpretation (i.e., of NMR, MS, and other analytical data).

There are several links to download this ACD Chemsketch

Here are some links for the tutorial on how to use ChemSketch:

Publisher	Advanced Chemistry Development
Publisher web site	http://www.acdlabs.com/
Release date	November 07, 2013
Operating systems	Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP
Category	Educational Software