Synthetic Chemistry

Do you find that the ability to quickly locate necessary details regarding the proper reagents, equipment, and procedures can directly impact the results and overall success of an experiment? And how about the reporting? How long does it take to format and lay out a project report or a publication?
In today's world, chemists are relying on software tools more than ever to help manage and organize their work. The time and resources that could be saved by making the data available in an easily searchable repository is significant. On a larger scale, the ability of an institution to create, preserve, and retrieve its chemical intellectual property represents one of the key competitive advantages.

Retrieve and Review Chemical and Analytical Data

In order to successfully reproduce a reaction that was referenced in literature or even previously completed within your own group, it is not uncommon to go through volumes of papers and laboratory notebooks. Would it be helpful to keep all details pertaining to the laboratory procedures, reaction schematics, images, descriptions, and analytical results together and search them by structure or its fragment?

ACD/Labs® software unites all components of chemical synthesis, from chemical structures, reaction schematics, and drawings and images, to diverse analytical results and written notes, all in one interconnected database. This database can be searched in a variety of ways, from structure to keyword, and provides a solid foundation for future experiments.
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Streamline Interpretation of Analytical Data

Are you doing your own processing of analytical data? Our specialized spectroscopy software will allow you to process your data on your own desktop, rather than the analytical instrument. Furthermore, it brings together and unifies results collected through various instruments and different techniques. Would it help if you could combine all of your raw spectral results into one software interface for unified processing, easily comparing your results against databases of publicly-known or your own spectral data to quickly identify the analytes? Enabling this function is the key strength of the ACD/Labs Spectroscopy package that can be customized to match specific techniques used in your lab. Furthermore, advanced tools for identification of rare and unknown substances are also available. Read more about:
Processing of analytical data on your own computer with ACD/Labs software
Bringing all of the analytical results together
Structure verification and dereplication
Advanced tools for structure elucidation

Facilitate Reporting

Since virtually every project concludes with a report or a publication, ACD/Labs software offers convenient tools for customizable presentation of your chemical data at the click of a button. Easy and quick reporting tools help chemists focus on their core research rather than formatting Microsoft® -Word or -PowerPoint pages.
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Ensure Correct Chemical Naming for Patents and Publications

Communication of chemical information is based on two pillars: visual representation via a chemical structure, and naming of the structure based on unified nomenclature rules. ACD/Labs software not only accepts chemicals structures in any one of the popular formats, but also offers the most accurate chemical naming capabilities according to both IUPAC and CAS rules. Read more on how the chemical industry and patent attorneys are using ACD/Name products in their work.

Get Help with Chromatographic Separations

ACD/Labs offers extensive structure-searchable databases of known separation results, providing a tremendous resource for scientists who develop unique chromatographic methods, or just want to compare their result with literature data. In addition to the public version available from our web site, we also offer a databasing package to help chemists find excellent starting points and optimize their separations to create robust methods. More on Chromatographic Method Development.