Article: Getting passionate about chemistry

A series of recent user seminars on ChemOffice gave the Adept Scientific team a good opportunity to receive some genuine feedback. For many of the tens of thousands of ChemOffice users in research and industry, the software is an indispensable part of their working environment, and they are passionate about the features which make their jobs the easiest.

Many delegates praised the ability of ChemOffice to provide correct compound names. The ability comes from ChemDraw Ultra offering Beilstein's highly regarded AutoNom 2.1 program to generate IUPAC-standard names from ChemDraw structures – a feature that has settled arguments as well as saved a lot of time. Of course, things also work the other way around too, with the Name=Struct feature instantly producing structures from the chemical names.

ChemOffice 2002 is the latest package for chemists which includes ChemDraw 7, Chem3D 7 and ChemFinder. It's indisputably the industry standard for chemistry software, and continues to go from strength to strength.