Advanced Chemistry Development Donates Campus Site License of ACD/ChemSketch to the University of Florida

Toronto, ON, and Gainesville, FL, January 14, 2002 -

Advanced Chemistry Development has provided a campus-wide installation of the latest version of ACD/ChemSketch to the University of Florida's Department of Chemistry. ACD/Labs' donation of ChemSketch version 5.0, will now make it possible for faculty members and students at the University of Florida to access ACD/Labs' popular chemical drawing software from anywhere on campus.

Since 1998, many of the university's chemistry faculty members and students have taken advantage of ACD/Labs' ChemSketch freeware offer, which can be downloaded from the ACD/Labs website.

Dr. David Powell is the Department of Chemistry's Director of Spectroscopic Services. He was the first person from the University of Florida to contact ACD/Labs about the ACD/ChemSketch site license donation.

ACD/ChemSketch is ACD/Labs' chemical structure drawing and visualization application for the Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT, & 2000) operating system. Part MS Paint, part MS PowerPoint, ACD/ChemSketch enables the user to quickly and easily draw and add chemical structures, and includes drawn images and graphics such as laboratory equipment, Lewis structures, bond orbitals and graphs for reports and presentations. OLE linking makes it possible to easily select, copy and paste chemical structures to 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 Florida, located in Gainesville, www.ufl.edu, is situated on an aggregate of 2,000 subtropical acres and is the state center for education, medicine, cultural events and athletics. The campus is the largest and oldest in Florida. It is enriched with an abundance of historic buildings and is within a stone's throw to many parks, museums and lakes.

The University of Florida's Department of Chemistry is among one of the top ten Ph.D. granting chemistry departments in the United States. The department currently has 46 tenure track faculty, seven teaching and research support faculty, over 250 graduate students, more than 75 postdoctoral and other scientific associates, and 42 staff members.