One more thing I would add is the Ctrl + Right arrow shortcut, which when a molecule is selected draws an centered straight reaction arrow and copies the selected molecule as the product. Super helpful if one has a larger structure and the reaction is only slightly changing the molecule (also works with retro synthesis arrows). Edit: Forgot to add because I was in a hurry: Excellent content as usual, keep up the good work!
Outstanding, to the point content! You can tell that this guy has plenty of experience and I regard it as quite a privilege to learn these sort of tricks the fast way, without having to figure it out myself. Many thanks, I appreciate your work!
It’s so useful. Most of the skills that even I’ve used chemdraw for about 10 years and don’t know about these. It could save me a lot of time moving objects one by one. Thx so much😊
Another cool feature which took me ages to figure out is the “multi-center attachment point” tool which allows you to make organometallic structures such as ferrocene and other sandwich complexes.
@@ThatChemistOld place a Cp ring down and select the whole ring, then go to structure --> add multi-center attachment point, then just add a bond from the asterisk at the center of your cp ring to your metal center. In the case of ferrocene obviously just do the same for the other side. To add perspective, select the bond (s) where the "central" hapticity-5 bond intersects with the cp ring and do "bring to front" so that the cp ring lies above the central bond basically. Hope that makes sense.
I actually make this structure a lot my problem is the centering of it. Worse is the clean up structure command does not work with the 3d accurate cp ring. representation.
Hey, just commenting to tell you you were recommended to me and two of my pharmacy studies colleagues by RU-vid and we enjoy your content a lot! Keep it up and nice video!
I'm so amazed to see how quickly you are growing! You are doing great work man! I showed your channel to my organic chemistry research group (I'm an undergrad), and all of the grad students and my PI thought it was really cool and thought your solvent tier list was hilarious lol. Keep it up!!
One cool feature I accidentally discovered was quickly writing multiple functional group names or abbreviations on atoms, such as NHBoc, NHFmoc, ONs or any name really. Select bond tool, double click on a carbon, write some group name and if the group repeats several times you can triple click on another atom and change it to the previously written abbreviation without any typing. Also the pen tool is greatly underappreciated, I've just recently discovered you can draw custom shapes and modify them in all kinds of ways, which opened a door to cool new figure or scheme designs. One last trick I use quite often is the join function. This is especially useful in drawing large custom structures, because sometimes Ctrl+Shift+K gives unsatisfactory results. I'm sure you know this, but you can click on an atom (the atom which you want to remain stationary), then Shift+Click on another atom (the atom, through which you want to add the molecule to the other atom), then press Ctrl+J and that joins the two molecules. I'm working with S-adenosyl-L-methionine analogues and this helps a lot in drawing custom molecules. Hope this helps someone, I'll sure be glad to see some more videos. You should make a series out on this, because CD is full of hidden cool functions and people could share their neat tricks in the comments, would help students and OC undergrads immensely. Thanks TC!
This is a hella cool video that I didn't know I needed. I've been building all my chemicals using chemfig in TeX and I've gotten super fast and its nice to organize and stuff but seeing these tips might make me swap over
Shortcut for quick and easy access Reaxys/SciFinder and GHS data: View --> Other Toolbars --> Add-ins Select your molecule and click on the desired tool. GHS data is really good and quick for simple molecules. Reaxys/SciFinder work for molecules and reactions (for the latter select your whole reaction scheme with starting material, arrow, and product).
If you select a chunk of a molecule, or of several molecules, instead of the entire molecule, then deselect, and press space, it will select the entire thing
Can you do a video on how to use topspin or the HPLC softwares, there is very little info on those aside from like manufacture’s manuals which are super technical and hard to follow.
A great video! And in terms of the future content, do you have a clever way to draw catalytic cycles? I usually draw a perfect circle, then spend a lot of time try to make arrows and intermediates fit that perfect cycle. I think this is really a stupid way to do catalytic cycles.
I still struggle with catalytic cycles - I think using one that someone else has already made would be the easiest, but this is definitely a shortcoming of chemdraw
Could you please provide a professional design for the structure of Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs)? I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Thank you.
I've been trying for weeks to draw a Fe(3-Br-SalEen)2 complex with Chemdraw and it's very very hard if I use the Structure Perspective tool. I know I should just draw it on a plane and adjust bond lenghts and angles as I see fit, but I REALLY want to draw it somewhat accurately. I even went on Avogadro and it was really easy with the optimizations and whatnot. Is there any way I can export xyz coordinates, for example, from there to ChemDraw or a similar software? That or a video on drawing 3d stuff in ChemDraw would be really great :D
Off topic question: since I'm an analytical chemist I won't be able to ask any chemistry questions, but I can ask random questions! So what games do you enjoy playing outside of doing chemistry work (except for minecraft, of course).
When copying over my structures from ChemDraw to another place I run into this issue where if I have a carbonyl it often cuts off the top of the O. I usually work around it by inserting an arrow or line above the O and coloring it white so that it doesn't show up. Has anyone ran into this issue? Do you think it's my document settings?
If i can ask a question: today i had to do a conductometric measurements on a solution of HClO4 and water, with a procedure taken from a paper. Unfortunately we didn't have HClO4 and the paper didn't tell why they used HClO4, so the prof asked if perchloric acid was really necessary , leaving me with that doubt. Acidity in water should be the same as all other strong acids, maybe it has something to do with the different Ka?
Best way to do that is to go to “save as”, then select “PNG image” and then opening up the new file using paint. However, you will not be able to open up the PNG file with ChemDraw again. Of course, you can save your work twice, once as a ChemDraw file and once as a PNG file. Hope this helps.
