ACD/Labs donates site license of ACD/ChemSketch to the University of Stellenbosch

Toronto, ON, and Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 14, 2003 -

The international appeal of Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.'s, (ACD/Labs) industry leading chemical structure drawing and visualization software cannot be denied. Initiated by Dr. James McLeary of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch, South Africa, ACD/Labs has donated a campus wide site license of ACD/ChemSketch. Dr. McLeary, being one of the 260,000 strong downloaders of the freeware version of ChemSketch, wanted the ability to share this pedagogical tool with the other faculty and students of this historic centre of higher learning.

ChemSketch is ACD/Labs' chemical structure drawing, molecular modeling, and visualization application. Written for the Microsoft® Windows (98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP) operating system, ChemSketch empowers you to draw any chemical structure from methane to Taxol and beyond. It is infused with helpful time saving features including 2D and 3D optimization, systematic IUPAC naming of structures with 50 atoms or less, and OLE linking to enable copying and pasting of chemical structures into other Microsoft applications. Additionally you can insert pre-drawn images, for example lab equipment, Lewis structures, and bond orbitals, into your drawings.

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

About Advanced Chemistry Development

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is a chemistry software company offering solutions that truly integrate chemical structures with analytical chemistry information to produce ChemAnalytics™. ACD/Labs creates innovative software packages that aid chemical research scientists worldwide with spectroscopic validation of structures, elucidation of unknown substances, chromatographic separation, medicinal chemistry, preformulation of novel drug agents, systematic nomenclature generation, and chemical patenting and publication. Combined, ACD/Labs' solutions create an analytical informatics system that provides dramatic feed-forward effects on the chemical and pharmaceutical research process. Founded in 1993, and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, ACD/Labs employs a team of over 100 dedicated individuals whose continual efforts carry ACD/Labs' innovative technologies into pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and materials companies throughout the world. Information about Advanced Chemistry Development and its products can be found at www.acdlabs.com.

About the University of Stellenbosch

University of Stellenbosch's (http://www.sun.ac.za/) mission is to create and sustain a commitment to the academic ideal of excellent scholarly and scientific practice, an environment within which knowledge can be discovered, shared, and applied to the benefit of the community.
In a spirit of academic freedom, and of the universal quest for truth and knowledge, the University of Stellenbosch as an academic institution sets itself the aim, through critical and rational thought:
- Of pursuing excellence and remaining at the forefront of its chosen focal areas;
- Of gaining national and international standing by means of its research outputs and its production of sought-after graduates;
- Of being relevant to the needs of the community, taking into consideration the needs of South Africa in particular and of Africa and the world in general; and being enterprising, innovative and self-renewing.