Today is the first day we met with Chemsketch. We have not heard about this software before and we are so sure that most of you did not know about it too. In Computer in Science class, we have been tought by Madam Noraslinda Binti Muhamad Bunnori the functions of Chemsketch. Chemsketch is a very interesting software .It is a chemical drawing software package from Advanced Chemistry Development,Inc. designed to be used alone or integrated with other applications. ChemSketch is used to draw chemical structures, reactions and schematic diagrams. It can also be used to design chemistry-related reports and presentations.
ACD/ChemSketch has the following major capabilities:
- Structure Mode for drawing chemical structures and calculating their properties.
- Draw Mode for text and graphics processing.
- Molecular Properties calculations for automatic estimation of:
∗formula weight;
∗percentage composition;
∗molar refractivity;
∗molar volume;
∗parachor;
∗index of refraction;
∗surface tension;
∗density;
∗dielectric constant;
∗polarizability;
∗monoisotopic, nominal and average mass
Thus, by using this software, we can draw chemical structures, apparatus, reactions, schematic diagrams, construct graphs, and design other chemistry-related reports and presentations.
Now we know how our teachers prepared slides for teaching purposes. Thus, the teaching and learning processes will be better and interesting. For starter, you can refer to Chemsketch manual.
Our First Drawing using Chemsketch
