Advanced Chemistry Development Donates Campus-Wide License of ACD/ChemSketch to the University of Cincinnati

Toronto, ON, and Cincinnati, OH, January 16, 2002 -

Advanced Chemistry Development has provided a campus-wide installation of the latest version of ACD/ChemSketch to the University of Cincinnati's Department of Engineering. UC's recent renovations to all its computer labs, means that students and faculty members will have access to ACD/ChemSketch on 220 workstations.

ACD/Labs' donation was initiated Dr. William van Ooij, a long time user of the commercial version of the software. Dr. van Ooij, of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, wanted to introduce ChemSketch's functionality and capabilities to his fellow faculty members and students. Dr. van Ooij uses ACD/ChemSketch in order to publish the results of his research in organofunctional silanes, a breakthrough in the worldwide search for chromate replacements in metal-finishing industries.

ACD/ChemSketch is ACD/Labs' chemical structure drawing and visualization application for the Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT, & 2000) operating system. The software enables you to draw virtually any chemical structure within the scope of your imagination and provides the ability to add chemical structures and drawn pictures, such as lab equipment, Lewis structures, bond orbitals and graphs to reports and presentations. Other ACD/ChemSketch features include 2D and 3D optimization, importing various structure formats, and OLE linking to enable copying and pasting of chemical structures into other Microsoft applications.

For more information about ACD/ChemSketch please visit our web site at: http://www.acdlabs.com/products/chem_dsn_lab/chemsketch/

Advanced Chemistry Development, www.acdlabs.com, is an industry leader in the field of physical property prediction, desktop chromatography and spectroscopy management, systematic naming, and Web-based access to chemistry prediction. Founded in 1993 and with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, the company employs over 90 people and has established a worldwide distribution channel. ACD/Labs' mission is to define a new standard in capabilities for chemistry-based software, addressing the needs of spectroscopy, chromatography, physical property prediction, and chemical naming.

The University of Cincinnati, www.uc.edu, Cincinnati campus, is one of 88 institutions classified as a research university by the Carnegie Commission. With roots dating back to 1819, the university is considered the birthplace of co-operative education, and has certainly earned its ranking as one of the top 50 research and development institutions by the National Science Foundation. The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance also ranks the University of Cincinnati among the Top 20 public research universities.

The University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering houses more than 20 research centers, and competes with other universities such as Caltech, MIT, Purdue, and Northwestern for the best students. Boasting 167 full and part-time faculty members, an average class size of 20, and a student to faculty ratio of 12:1, UC's College of Engineering state school tuition offers a high-level engineering education at a great value. A survey of the 2000-2001 senior engineering class showed that 95% had already received employment by the day of commencement and 99% had jobs by the end of the summer.