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How to Draw Chemistry Structures

Making chemistry drawings for science and education purposes involves many different elements that can be managed using ConceptDraw PRO. ConceptDraw Chemistry solution can be used as a tool for creating chemical schemes and diagrams of chemical lab set-ups and labware, formulas, reaction schemes, and molecular structures. With ConceptDraw PRO you can easily create and communicate chemistry drawings of any complexity.

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This solution extends ConceptDraw PRO software with samples, template and libraries of vector stencils for drawing the Chemistry Illustrations for science and education.

Conformations - Vector stencils library

Cyclohexane: boat conformation

Cyclohexane: chair conformation

Cyclopentane: envelope conformation

Cyclobutane: saddle conformation

Fischer projection formula

Pyranose cycle

Furanose cycle

Cyclobutane

Cyclopropane

Conformation

Newman projection formula

Cyclohexane: twist-boat

Cyclohexane: twist-chair

Cyclohexane: planar form

Cyclohexane: equatorial form

Cycloheptane: chair conformation

Cycloheptane: boat conformation

Cycloheptane: equatorial form

Cyclooctane: chair conformation

Cyclooctane: boat conformation

Cyclooctane: equatorial form

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Design elements - Conformations

The vector stencils library "Conformations" contains 32 symbols of ring conformations, Newman and Fisher projections for chemical and biochemical drawing the molecular models and structural formulas of organic molecules and biochemical metabolites. It is useful in stereochemistry for drawing spatial structures of conformers of organic molecules, and schemes of stereospecific chemical reactions in organic synthesis.
"In chemistry, conformational isomerism is a form of stereoisomerism in which the isomers can be interconverted exclusively by rotations about formally single bonds (refer to figure on single bond rotation). Such isomers are generally referred to as conformational isomers or conformers and, specifically, as rotamers. Rotations about single bonds are restricted by a rotational energy barrier which must be overcome to interconvert one conformer to another. Conformational isomerism arises when the rotation about a single bond is relatively unhindered. That is, the energy barrier must be small enough for the interconversion to occur.
Conformational isomers are thus distinct from the other classes of stereoisomers (i. e. configurational isomers) where interconversion necessarily involves breaking and reforming of chemical bonds. For example, L- & D and R- & S- configurations of organic molecules have different handedness and optical activities, and can only be interconverted by breaking one or more bonds connected to the chiral atom and reforming a similar bond in a different direction or spatial orientation.
The study of the energetics between different rotamers is referred to as conformational analysis. It is useful for understanding the stability of different isomers, for example, by taking into account the spatial orientation and through-space interactions of substituents. In addition, conformational analysis can be used to predict and explain product(s) selectivity, mechanisms, and rates of reactions." [Conformational isomerism. Wikipedia]
The chemical symbols example "Design elements - Conformations" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Chemistry solution from the Science and Education area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Molecular conformations and projections