Chem Sketch : Easy guide!

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

Alhamdullilah, praise to be upon HIM, to give me the oppurtunity to live and breath within. Today I am fortunate to learn about Chemsketch. Before this I might be wonder how to draw or sketch the complicated structure of the atoms, molecules and also the mixtures but now I know how to make it into drawing. Basically, with the help of our instructor Dr. Noraslinda Muhammad Bunnori and also the manual provided we managed to complete our tasks which is to draw the energy of reaction diagram, to draw the orbitals, and to draw lipids michille structure. Not only that, by using this software, it allow you to draw almost any chemical structure including organics, polymers and Markush structures. It have been used to produce professional looking structures and diagrams for report and publications.

Software that we used, Chemsketch

Benefits of using this software, 

* Visualize chemical structures in 2D or 3D to gain more insight into spatial configurations and relationships to molecular properties.

From our learning this is our outcomes, 

First page

Task 1, drawing energy of reaction diagram

9.2 Drawing the Energy of Reaction Diagram

 1)Switch to Draw mode and click Polyline
2.Drag horizontally to the right from the starting point of the curve to stretch the control line

3. Release the mouse button.

4. Move the mouse up to draw the first segment of the curve.

5. Drag horizontally to the right to stretch the control lines. By changing the length of the control lines you can modify the curve segment.

6. Release the mouse button.

7. Move the mouse down to draw the next segment.

8. Repeat the above steps to draw the next two segments.

9. Right-click to finish drawing the curve.

Modifying the curve.

1. If you are not satisfy with your curve, click select/move button, then click at your curve.
2. Edit notes button will show all nodes that you can modify.
3. If you click at the third note, you will see the note selected and the control lines appear.
4. Just move the control lines until you get the curve that you want.
Drawing X and Y axes.
1. It is most important to make sure the polyline button is active. Then, click the draw arrow. Then from the arrow type drop-down-list, find icon , then choose two way arrow
2. Click at the end point of Y axis.
3. Drag mouse vertically downward.
4. Click at the point of intersection.
5. Move the mouse horizontally until end point of X axis.
6. Right click to finish the drawing.
7. You can add the inscription of Y and X axis by click at the text button.
8. Choose rotate 90˚ button if necessary.

Task 2, drawing orbitals

Drawing a p-orbital
We are going to draw the following orbital
Make sure you are in the mode and click Polygon .
1. Drag horizontally to the right from the starting point of the orbital to stretch the control line.
2. Release the mouse button.
3. Move the mouse down to draw the body of the orbital

5.Right-click twice to finish drawing the orbital and to quickly switch to the Select/Move/Resize tool. Position the cursor over the selected orbital; and, while holding down CTRL, drag it down to make a copy of the drawn orbital.
ACD/ChemSketch Tutorial 83
Creating Graphical Objects
6. Click Flip Top to Bottom to flip the lower segment of the orbital. Align the segments by moving them.
7. Point to the gray color button in the Color Palette (at the bottom of the workspace) and click with the left mouse button to change the fill color of the orbital segment.

8.Select both segments of the orbital and click Group . Now you can manipulate the segments as a single object, e.g., rotate using the Select/Move/Rotate tool

Drawing a d-orbital
In this section we will draw the orbital
Make sure you are in the Draw mode and select the Polygon tool .
Tip From the Options menu, choose Snap on Grid before drawing to ease the drawing of the symmetrical orbital.
1. Drag horizontally to the right from the starting point of the orbital to stretch the control line.
2. Release the mouse button.
3. Move the mouse down to draw the body of the orbital.
4. Drag horizontally to the right to stretch the control lines. Note that to make the two segments of the orbital identical, make the lengths of the control lines equal.
5. Release the mouse button.
6. Right-click to finish drawing the orbital and switch to the Select/Move/Resize tool

7. Select the orbital and, holding down CTRL, drag to make a copy of it.
ACD/ChemSketch Tutorial 84
Creating Graphical Objects
8. Click Rotate 90° to rotate the copy of the orbital.
9. Move the copy by dragging it.
10. Point to the gray color button in the Color Palette and click with the left mouse button to change the color of the orbital:

11. Select both orbitals and click Group . Now you can manipulate the orbitals as a single object, e.g., rotate using the Select/Move/Rotate tool

Drawing a pi-type orbital
We will draw this orbital
1. Select the Ellipse tool and drag in the workspace to draw an ellipse.
2. From the Objects menu, choose Convert to Polyline.
3. Click Edit Nodes .
4. Drag the lowest node up.

5. Right-click to switch to the Select/Move/Resize tool , then select the orbital by clicking on its contour, and then, holding down CTRL, drag to make a copy of it.
6. Click Flip Top to Bottom to flip the lower orbital.
7. Point to the gray color button in the Color Palette and click on the left mouse button to change the color of the orbital.

8. Select both orbitals and click Group . Now you can manipulate them as a single object.

Drawing the lipids

Task 3, drawing lipids and micelles structures

Make sure you are switched to the mode.
1. Click Ellipse . Drag in the workspace while holding down SHIFT to draw a circle.
2. Click on the black color of the Color Palette to fill the circle.
3. Click Polyline . Click repeatedly in the workspace near the circle to draw the carbonic tail and right-click to finish drawing.

 4. Click Edit Nodes and smooth the zigzag line in the following way:
a. Select all the nodes of the drawn polyline by dragging the selection rectangle around it. Note that selected nodes become black.
b. Click Convert to Curve and then Smooth .
c. Right-click to switch to the Select/Move/Resize tool .

 

 5. Position the mouse pointer over the curve and drag it holding down CTRL to leave the copy of the curve behind.
6. Arrange the tails as shown by dragging them

 

 

7.Try drawing the micelle picture using the copying feature (CTRL+drag), Group, Rotate 90°, and Select/Move/Rotate as well as the aligning and flipping tools


We hoped that you all will learn something from this post, until then take a good care okay!

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