Software Reviews

In order to keep our customers and collaborators aware of reviews of, and literature references to, our software, our scientific documentation and public presentations we list here several relevant contributions. Please contact us at info@acdlabs.com if you are mentioning us in your article, or for further information.

• Evaluation of ACD/Structure Design Suite
  Jeff Botts, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Physical Chemistry & Spectroscopy, Aptuit
   
• Evaluation of ACD/1D and 2D NMR Processors Running on a Mac
  Paul Sigala, Dept. of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Graduate Student (Ph.D Candidate)
   
• Using a Virtual Machine to Run ACD/Labs NMR Processors on a Mac
  Jed Fisher, Faculty Professional Specialist, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame
   
• ACD/HNMR and ACD/CNMR: A Software Review by Brian Pagenkopf, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127(9), 3232-3232.
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• ...from Jim Bernhardt, Henkel Loctite
  "My use of MS Manager has exceeded my original expectations. There have been numerous times over the last couple of months where I've encountered analytes in my GC/MS data that could not be positively identified from mass spectral libraries, although some information was gleaned about the class of compound and/or chemical structure. From the pieces of information I did have, I was able to propose complete structures, which I would then test with MS Manager. I found this to be a very easy way to evaluate candidate structures and, if necessary, make minor modifications to my original proposals."
   
• I-Lab: Online Spectral Tool - Pavel Simakov, Science, 2001, Vol. 291, No. 5511, Page 2179. To quote Mr. Simakov, "The I-Lab is ideal for researchers not interested in building spectral or molecular databases, but who need various analytical services on a periodic basis. Educators, particularly at NMR training facilities, will find the program useful as well."
   
• ACD/Labs' ChemSketch 4.0 received an excellent comparative review up against three other well-known chemistry drawing programs, by Tamas Gunda of L. Kossuth University in Hungary. To quote Dr Gunda, "...especially ChemSketch seem to be the most dynamically developed chemical drawing applications".
  
  
• Recently ChromManager was evaluated against the capabilities of HP Chemstation software in regards to standard desktop processing software. This report gives an overview of the capabilities
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• Die ACD Labs Programmsuite - Dr. Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt, Computer Chemistry Center, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg (Germany)
  - German language review of ChemSketch 3.5, NMR Manager and Predictors
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• ACD/NMR Processor - Scott Van Bramer, Department of Chemistry, Widener University, Chester
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• ACD/IUPAC Name Pro 3.6 - Sarah Ryan, Synthesis, 1999, No.5, 904
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• ACD/ChemFolder 3.6 Review - Ray Dessy, 1/24/99
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• ACD Labs/LogP dB 3.5 and ChemSketch 3.5 - Gary O. Spessard, J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., Vol. 38, No. 6, 1998
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• Chemistry Software Reaches the Web - A review of ACD/I-Lab by David Bradley, Scientific Computing World, July 1998
  
  
• Applications of ACD/NMR Software Suite Applications for the identification and databasing of chemical markers in biological fluids by Chris Silwood, Research Fellow, Inflammation Research Group, St. Barthlomew's and the Royal London Hospitals School of Medicine and Dentistry, London E1 2AD.
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• ACD/NMR Manager: Molecular Spectroscopy Lab uses NMR to Characterize Polymers - Elliot King, Scientific Computing and Automation, 1998, June, W-14.
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• ACD/CNMR and ACD/HNMR : A Software Review - Scott Van Bramer, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance, 1997, 9(4) 271-273
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• ¹³C NMR Chemical Shift Calculations for Some Substituted Pyridines: A Comparative Consideration - St. Thomas, I.Bruhl, D. Heilmann and E. Kleinpeter, J.Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1997, 37, 726-730. A comparison of the prediction capabilities of different NMR prediction packages (AROSIM, Chemwindows C-13 modules, SPECAL from SpecInfo, CSPEC2, gNMR, ACD/CNMR and HyperNMR). The conclusion was "The program ACD/CNMR, which has a knowledge base, gives the best results in our work. The greatest advantage of this program is the possibility to train this knowledge base by the user"
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• ACD/CNMR and ACD/HNMR : A Software Review - William Smith, The NMR Newsletter, 1997, No. 455, Page 25
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• ACD/ChemSketch and ACD/CNMR 2.0: Software Review ACD/Labs - Fred A. Turner, The Chemistry Bulletin, 1996, November, p.30.
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• ACD/CNMR 2.0, A New Software Package for the Prediction of Carbon Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Shifts - Helmut Honig, Chemistry - The Austrian Magazine for Economy and Science, 1996, p. 25.
   
• Drawing Structures and Calculating ¹³C NMR Spectra - Sadanand Pathre, Analytical Chemistry, 1996, 68, 740A-741A
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• ACD/CNMR Version 1.1 and C-13 NMR Module 1.2 for Chemwindows 3.1.3 or Later: Evaluation and Test for Prediction of NMR Spectra of Photosynthetic Metabolites - Roger L. Kohnert, Brian Arbogast and Larry S. Daley, Biotechnology Software and Internet Journal, June 1996, Page 17.