Comments on: Putting Diels-Alder Products in Perspective

By: alchemist

alchemist — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:52:42 +0000

In reply to Jon. Chemdraw has a template for bicyclics. Under view -> templates -> bicyclics. That should give you everything you need. If you need to move the bonds, use the little lasso tool and manually move them. If you need to add dashes and wedges, use the tool for that and correct it manually. Same with chairs. Newman projections you can do with the normal bond tool and a circle, if you don't mind it giving you red squiggly lines. If you look at papers from the mid 2000's, you'll see there is a heck of a lot of complexity you can add to some ChemDraw molecules if you try. It just takes a lot of time and patience. As well as that 3D swivel tool it has.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 20:07:05 +0000

Since I use chemdraw to do all my homework, how do I get it to draw it like that? If I manually draw it, and go to fix / clean up molecule, it changes the perspective. Can you offer some basic techniques on drawing organic molecules using chemdraw? Ways to draw conformations (newman/chair/etc as well)? I tried looking around and either get very basic, almost chem 1 style stuff that goes into basic alkanes with a few substituents or really complex molecules which is beyond the focus of orgo 1 and 2 (which btw, thanks to you, I passed orgo 1)

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:47:50 +0000

Thanks for stopping by! This is a really informative website! Some chemist friends of mine will love it :)

As for the cats, maybe you can adopt one or volunteer with a TNR program? :)