From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sun Apr 22 14:42:01 2007 From: "William F. Coleman wcoleman-x-wellesley.edu" To: CCL Subject: CCL: MOLECULE Message-Id: <-34096-070422124658-10758-QMI+zUiA/P/SfMUQD4Z+tw^^^server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "William F. Coleman" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:08:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: "William F. Coleman" [wcoleman]=[wellesley.edu] For small and medium-sized molecules I am a big fan of Discovery Studio Visualizer by Accelrys (http://www.accelrys.com/products/downloads/ds_visualizer/index.html), free to the community. It includes the drawing tools from the no longer available WebLab Viewer Pro from MSI, and does a very nice job of preparing molecules for submission to a variety of computational programs. For transition metal complexes I prefer GaussView, but if you do not have that the DS Visualizer can certainly do what you wish with a little work. Cheers, Flick _______________ William F. Coleman Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry Wellesley College Wellesley, MA 02481 email: wcoleman(_)wellesley.edu web: www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/colemanw.html voice: 781-283-3129 fax: 781-283-3642 Editor, JCE WebWare http://www.jce.divched.org/JCEDLib/WebWare/