Workshop: An Introduction to ChemDraw

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Date: August 12, 2017

Venue: AV Hall

No. of Participants:32

Demonstrator: Ms. Manjinder Kour, Research Scholar, The IIS University, Jaipur

ChemDraw is software used for the generation of chemical structure. The knowledge of ChemDraw is essential for the UG, PG and Research students so that they can present cleaner, authentic and high resolution structure in their work. With this aim we have planned to organize this workshop.

The workshop on “ChemDraw” was organized for all the M.Sc. Students on 12^th August 2017 at the IIS University Jaipur. Ms. Manjinder Kour wonderfully simplified the use of ChemDraw program which helped the students to efficiently draw simple 2-D representations of organic molecules, chemical formulae and reaction schemes required for their seminar reports, publications and thesis.

The workshop began with the introduction of ChemDraw. Ms. Manjinder guided the students about the software, how to draw molecular structures and also the importance of that software. ChemDraw is a molecule editor application first developed in 1985 by David A Evans and Stewart Rubenstein. ChemOffice suite consists of three programs viz. ChemDraw, Chem3D and ChemFinder, and is available for MacOS and Microsoft Windows.

ChemDraw has many applications viz. drawing chemical structures, giving names to chemical structure, in the conversion of a chemical name to structure, in NMR spectrum simulation (¹H and ¹³C), in mass spectrum simulation, and in structure cleanup. It has an extensive collection of templates, including style templates for most of the major chemical journals, exporting to SVG and PDF format.

Students learned to draw different structures on ChemDraw under the supervision of Ms. Manjinder Kour. The workshop was over with Q&A session at 10.30 a.m.

After the workshop students were able to draw the structures in ChemDraw and its use in the interpretation of IR, NMR and Mass spectrum.

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