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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: spirochete on February 14, 2009, 04:24:37 PM

Title: Program for manipulating molecules in 3d?
Post by: spirochete on February 14, 2009, 04:24:37 PM

Is there a program out there that lets you draw wedge/dash line diagrams of molecules and then rotate them in 3-D?

I am trying to figure out the stereochemistry of a reaction involving the cyclization of an 18 membered ring and something like that would be very helpful.

Title: Re: Program for manipulating molecules in 3d?
Post by: macman104 on February 14, 2009, 06:46:35 PM

The only thing that I know of is ChemDraw coupled with Chem3D.  You save your chemDraw files and then open them in Chem3D.

Title: Re: Program for manipulating molecules in 3d?
Post by: LQ43 on February 14, 2009, 08:41:53 PM

Chemsketch is free and has a 3D viewer with rotation

http://www.acdlabs.com/download/

Title: Re: Program for manipulating molecules in 3d?
Post by: FeLiXe on February 15, 2009, 08:55:58 AM

or you may start out with a 3D editor: Pymol, Arguslab, Avogadro