{"id":4600,"date":"2012-12-03T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2012-12-03T20:25:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:25:38","slug":"some-cunning-chemdraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2012\/12\/some-cunning-chemdraw.html","title":{"rendered":"Some cunning ChemDraw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably wouldn&#8217;t expect the Chief Editor of a journal to spend much time using ChemDraw (or maybe you would?) \u2014 it&#8217;s just that I can&#8217;t imagine the editors of too many other chemistry journals (such as the Stangs and G\u00f6litzs of this world) redrawing the structures provided by 75+% of the authors. For my sins, I do. I like to think I&#8217;m a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to ChemDraw, although members of my team might use a different word (or two). One of the most challenging papers included <a href=\"https:\/\/stuartcantrill.com\/2012\/02\/22\/my-chemdraw-hell\/\" target=\"_blank\">structures such as this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I considered myself a bit of a ChemDraw expert, but then I saw the video that&#8217;s embedded below and had to re-evaluate my world view! It was put together by Pierre Morieux, a postdoc who e-mailed us to let us know about his handiwork. I encourage those of you who are ChemDraw connoisseurs to watch it. If you don&#8217;t learn something new, I will be surprised&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ChemDraw Magic - Draw Viagra under 20 sec (with subtitles)\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/03WNbvZLDkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/pipeline.corante.com\/archives\/2012\/11\/19\/chemdraw_magic.php\" target=\"_blank\">featured over at In the Pipeline<\/a>, with \u2014 I imagine \u2014 a much more extensive comment thread than we&#8217;ll probably get here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably wouldn\u2019t expect the Chief Editor of a journal to spend much time using ChemDraw (or maybe you would?) \u2014 it\u2019s just that I can\u2019t imagine the editors of too many other chemistry journals (such as the Stangs and G\u00f6litzs of this world) redrawing the structures provided by 75+% of the authors. For my sins, I do. I like to think I\u2019m a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to ChemDraw, although members of my team might use a different word (or two). One of the most challenging papers included structures such as this one.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2012\/12\/some-cunning-chemdraw.html#wpn-more-4600\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2012\/12\/some-cunning-chemdraw.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuart-cantrill","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}