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Library

The Chemistry Add-In for Microsoft Word now comes with a pre-loaded structure library from CEVOpen – This data represents about 2100 unique chemical names of volatile plant chemicals (essential oils) from the EssoilDB 1.0 database (compiled from the scientific literature over about 10 years in Dr Yadav’s laboratory). They are made available for re-use by anyone for any purpose (CC0). We would appreciate acknowledgement of EssoilDB and the following people who extracted and cleaned the data during 2019. (Gitanjali Yadav, Ambarish Kumar, Peter Murray-Rust).

The new library is default for brand new installations, but if you already have a library of your own, installing the latest release will leave your library in place.

ACME

You’ve already read that we have a new editor. The editor allows us to create new features in future versions. We’re looking at a number of opportunities to improve Chem4Word. As an example, we’re looking to include the drawing of chemical reactions.

The future

We’re in the process of making some video tutorials of the new features, and we’ll post these as soon as we can.

Meanwhile, keep in touch via our Facebook group where you will hear first about the new features and video tutorials.

And as always, Chem4Word is free and will remain so.  What are you waiting for?  Download it now!

The Chemistry Add-In for Microsoft Word now comes with a pre-loaded structure library from CEVOpen https://github.com/petermr/CEVOpen – This data represents about 2100 unique chemical names of volatile plant chemicals (essential oils) from the EssoilDB 1.0 database (compiled from the scientific literature over about 10 years in Dr Gita Yadav’s laboratory). They are made available for re-use by anyone for any purpose (CC0). We would appreciate acknowledgement of EssoilDB and the following people who extracted and cleaned the data during 2019. (Gitanjali Yadav, Ambarish Kumar, Peter Murray-Rust).

The new library is default for brand new installations, but if you already have a library of your own, installing the latest release will leave your library in place.

If you want the new library and to keep the structures from your existing library, we’ll provide instructions on how to do that shortly after release.

Fed up with having to draw out common functional groups in your molecules?  ACME, our new structure editor now provides easy shortcuts that can save you time and effort.

In the background, we capture the correct chemical formula, so that the correct formula can be calculated. This feature is in its early stages of development. Right now, we are unable to calculate InChI keys and find names from structures with embedded functional groups, but this feature is on the roadmap, so you can expect improvements in future releases.

The biggest change in Chem4Word 2020 is the way in which you can draw and edit chemical structures.

ACME is the Advanced CML-based Molecule Editor.  ACME uses Windows’ hardware-accelerated graphics for seamless, scalable drawing and editing.

ACME supports all common molecule editing operations complete with full undo and redo.
 

Whether you’re editing a molecule that is already in your document, or drawing a new one, ACME is the new tool to do the job.

The new version will allow you to use our brand new, intuitive Chemistry editor (ACME). 

Have a guess to see what ACME stands for.