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Annotated guide to free chemistry software (chemical freeware), intended for students and faculty who need high quality, specialized software for chemical structure drawing and 3D viewing, information on elemental or molecular properties, equilibrium calculations, etc. LibreCAD is a free technical drawing software available for Windows, Mac and, Linux. It has a vast community to help you with any of the issues. Availability in 30 different languages covers a wide user base. With continuous updates, new features and bugs are being solved.

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• Avogadro free 3D cross-platform chemical drawing software

Comment: I had some stability issues w v1.0.3 on OS X but found the software very useful overall. The peptide inserter is a very nice feature. No 2D drawing.

• MarvinSketch free*, mostly 2D chemical drawing software; *educational, also commercial version (Win/Unix/Mac)

Comment: very clean 2D drawing software; structure validation is very useful; specialized features like stereochemistry, complexes, radical, isotopes..; free academic and paid version; v5.10 as of 7/2012.

• ChemDoodle 2D drawing software (Win/Unix/Mac) $60 (2012) review

• ACD/ChemSketch (Win/Linux with emulator) freeware & commercial

• Accelrys Draw (Win only) no-fee educational version & commercial

ISIS/Draw no longer available

successor Symyx, already itself superceded by Accelrys Draw

• XDrawChem free 2D drawing software (Win/Unix/Mac)

• free Chemistry Development Kit including JChemPaint runs as a browser applet

Drawing Programs For Mac

Comment: simple yet neat little online tool to draw chemical structures

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Links

• thorough comparison of chemical drawing software by Tamas Gunda (last updated 2011)
• overview of chemical informatics toolkits by Abhishek Tiwari
• broader comparison of chemical writing, drawing and viewing software by Bob Bruner (last updated 2011)

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