![]() As there were little option to resize the structures we either drew the structure sitting next to the typist or saw to it that all schemes were placed on a separate page. The bigger problem arose when the structures were to be incorporated in the thesis because their placement required appropriate space in a document being typed on electronic typewriter. Although placing the structures symmetrically was an issue I resolved it by placing two templates perpendicular to each other. Being good in arts and drawing I quickly learnt the art of drawing the chemical structures using the templates and Stredler pen. Sanjay Batraĭrawing the chemical structures before we started using ChemDraw was little cumbersome. I found a program (I don't remember the name) that remapped the keyboard so I could draw chemical structures, somewhat crudely, until I bought a Macintosh and Chemintosh in the early nineties. In the mid 80's, we had purchased an Atari home computer, that I used to write exams, but had to hand draw all of the chemical structures. Thanks Stewart and CambridgeSoft! Bruce Hathaway I can recall the use of Rotring pens and Letraset but I prefer using my Macs to produce vector graphics. I've used Chem(Bio)Draw since 1988 coauthoring two editions of a textbook on Organic Chemistry and a website ChemTube3D using the software. I was able to use CD to make complex chemical reaction kinetics schemes, and my first contribution to the literature was a scheme I made for a paper by Nelson DeLeon and Clay Marston ( J. There was a copy which could be used at a common terminal, a Mac Plus, in the NMR lab, with even (gasp) a *laser printer.* As a physical chemist, ChemDraw might not seem all that essential to me - but its arrow templates were a huge boon. I was one of the graduate students at Yale that benefited from Stu Schreiber's early buyin to ChemDraw. Dylan Bleierĭrawing large 3D organic molecules without ChemDraw is brutal and slow. ![]()
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