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Beaker10:
Hello,

I'm looking for some good organic chemistry drawing software for Mac OS X 10.4.  I'm familiar with Isis/Draw but I believe you need the Mac OS 9 to run it.  I'm also familiar with ChemDraw but I'm only looking for something for home use so am not willing to pay too much for it (<$200).  Any suggestions?  I've also seen xdrawchem on the internet.  Has anyone had any experience with this program?  Is it any good?

Cheers,

Beaker10

Mitch:
I use Isis on win xp. Links to various drawing programs can be found in our links section under Chemical Tools and Programs.

sjb:

--- Quote from: Beaker10 on August 22, 2006, 12:49:16 AM ---Hello,

I'm looking for some good organic chemistry drawing software for Mac OS X 10.4.  I'm familiar with Isis/Draw but I believe you need the Mac OS 9 to run it.  I'm also familiar with ChemDraw but I'm only looking for something for home use so am not willing to pay too much for it (<$200).  Any suggestions?  I've also seen xdrawchem on the internet.  Has anyone had any experience with this program?  Is it any good?

Cheers,

Beaker10

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I've not used xchemdraw for the mac per se, but am currently experimenting with it for my drawing package under Suse Linux - seems reasonably OK so far, but a bit frustrating if you need to copy, paste change structures (unless it's just my inexperience with Linux  :) ) - other packages I've had a look at from this angle are chemtool http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/~martin/chemtool/, jchempaint http://almost.cubic.uni-koeln.de/cdk/jcp and bkchem http://bkchem.zirael.org/index.html .

Perhaps have a look at them - I'm not sure how closely Linuxes and Mac OS 10.4 are, though I believe fairly closely.

S

Borek:

--- Quote from: sjb on August 23, 2006, 01:10:35 PM ---I'm not sure how closely Linuxes and Mac OS 10.4 are, though I believe fairly closely.
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Mac OS 10.4 is based on BSD, BSD is not a Linux.

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