Chemistry Readers’ Choice — Silver Award: ACD/ChemSketch
ACD/ChemSketch is a chemically intelligent drawing interface that provides a portal to a range of analytical tools, and facilitates the transformation of structural or analytical data into professional reports or presentations. A dictionary of more than 156,000 trivial, common and trade names with their corresponding structures allows users to view the SDfiles, as well as search Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF reports, SDfiles, molfiles and CambridgeSoft ChemDraw files by chemical structure, substructure or structure similarity. A freeware version is also available, which contains tools for tautomer prediction; 2-D structure cleaning; 3-D optimization and viewing; and drawing of polymers, organometallics and Markush structures.