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Title: Software for Organic chemistry
Post by: Ronaldo0909 on October 18, 2009, 07:32:15 PM: Hey guys i am taking organic chemistry for the first time!
and i have a lab, i was wondering if you guys knew of an excellent program that runs on snow leopard because chemdraw dose not, unless i install virtual pc, which i do not even own a copy of windows!

i just need to draw structure diagrams , and the mechanisms,

i am a student, therefore freeware is the way to go.

Thanks you
Title: Re: Software for Organic chemistry
Post by: Dan on October 19, 2009, 03:10:32 AM: I thought ChemDraw had an up to date mac version... ? We have ChemBioDraw 12 on all our macs at work, but we don't have any machines with Snow Leopard. I'd talk to the IT people in your department because you probably have site licenses for various packages that will be better than freeware. You could have a go with chemsketch http://www.acdlabs.com/download/chemsketch/ but I have no idea if that works on a mac.
Title: Re: Software for Organic chemistry
Post by: Telamond on October 19, 2009, 06:51:13 AM: I'm pretty sure that ChemDraw works on Mac without the need of Virtual PC. It's up and running right now. Just check that the version you've downloaded is the Mac version and not the Windows version.

If it still doesn't work, you could use ChemSketch as Dan recommended, and there's also ISISDraw, although the molecule sketches aren't as "pretty" as the ones from ChemSketch...
Title: Re: Software for Organic chemistry
Post by: yukiheart on October 19, 2009, 10:43:51 AM: Quote from: Telamond on October 19, 2009, 06:51:13 AM
I'm pretty sure that ChemDraw works on Mac without the need of Virtual PC. It's up and running right now. Just check that the version you've downloaded is the Mac version and not the Windows version.

If it still doesn't work, you could use ChemSketch as Dan recommended, and there's also ISISDraw, although the molecule sketches aren't as "pretty" as the ones from ChemSketch...
He is right! chemdraw do not work with Snow Leopard. So you need set up Visual PC to run Chemdraw..
this is link for Chem office and c*** for it:

Edit: link deleted.
Title: Re: Software for Organic chemistry
Post by: Ronaldo0909 on October 20, 2009, 06:57:31 PM: none of these work for mac running snow lepord
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Title: Re: Software for Organic chemistry
Post by: exploring gul on October 24, 2009, 10:41:32 PM: hey have u got chem draw i have it but i dont know how to operate it
plzz help me
Title: Re: Software for Organic chemistry
Post by: Borek on October 25, 2009, 04:42:29 AM: If nothing else works - read the manual.
Title: Re: Software for Organic chemistry
Post by: Ronaldo0909 on November 01, 2009, 08:19:01 PM: how did you get chemdraw on a mac, runing snow leopard?
Title: Re: Software for Organic chemistry
Post by: Ulfsaar on November 01, 2009, 10:18:50 PM: Wow! snow leopard!
i have no idea because the mac is too expensive in my country.I just use the linux seldom.I have been using my windows XP as usual