Chemistry Readers’ Choice – Bronze Award: ACD/ChemSketch
The ACD/ChemSketch drawing and graphics package is a chemically intelligent interface that provides a portal to a range of analytical tools and facilitates the transformation of structural or analytical data into reports or presentations. It is available as freeware, with tools for tautomer prediction, 2-D structure cleaning, 3-D optimization and viewing, drawing of polymers, organometallics and Markush structures. The commercial version has a number of advanced features, including a dictionary of 140,000 trivial, common and trade names with their corresponding structures, and transfer of structures to a PDA.