[ale] Any Chemical types here?

[Jim Kinney]

xdrawchem is the tool you're looking for. Creates 2D images with the
wedge-shaped bond lines for the 3d-look as in text books. gchempaint is
another one similar that is gnome-centric. xdrawchem is "old school motif
looking" :-)

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Tom Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>wrote:

>
> I have put this off longer that sanity suggests is safe: Anybody on this
> list use one of the open source chemical structure editors on a regular
> basis? Which one suits you best, given your needs?
>
> Back story:
>
> I start teaching a freshman level Organic/Biochem class to a crowd of
> community college students in another week and change. I need a structure
> editor with which to create chemical structures for import to
> OpenOffice which is my currently chosen document creation solution (buzz
> word central - sorry). For at least the first session, I will need to
> create 50-60 molecular structures a week, on the budget of an adjunct
> teacher at a state school (ie. no budget at all). Worse (in a way) it is a
> small school, and I'm the only chemical type on staff at all. All my
> chemical/education contacts are Windows types, and thus not terribly
> useful in this case.
>
> Currently, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on the laptop, and Fedora 13 on the
> desktop without development systems on either. I know how to get the
> developement systems working under Fedora, but I've been less successful
> with Ubuntu.
>
> Any clues running around the list?
>
> Thanks for the assistance in advance people. Even if I cann't get to
> Atlanta functions, this is an awesome resource here!
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