Subject: Re: CCL:Programs for drawing the molecular structure for papers

From: Mark Thompson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:24:31 US/Pacific

If you want 2D pictures like you see in Organic Chem texts, programs like 
Chem3D will probably do what you want.

If you want a high quality 3D image with bond lengths, angles, etc printed 
along with the molecular structure, then most of the commercial modeling 
packages should do what you want.  

For example, ArgusLab will export high quality molecular images with geometry 
monitors to bitmap, JPEG, and TIFF files (which can then be imported into MS 
Word, etc.).  Also, you can export to POV-Ray files which can be rendered by 
the free ray-tracing utility POV-Ray (www.povray.org) to very high quality 
images.

ArgusLab can be obtained at http://www.arguslab.com

Cheers,
Mark

> Dear CCL'ers
> 
> What programs do you use for representing geometry parameters of
> the molecules in papers?
> A program of this kind have to plot a molecular structure
> in black&white (not gray) as ball&sticks and
> if it's possible to print bond lengths and angles.
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you and best regards,
>                              Andrew
> 
> 
> 
>                              
>  Dr. Andrei Ryjkov
>  Departments of Chemistry, and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
>  McGill University,
>  805 Sherbrooke St. West #808
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