NYU recently purchased an Annual Site License for ChemDraw Ultra, which now is available for download from the CambridgeSoft website.  This software enables the user to draw chemical and biological structures, and for Windows users, perform 3-D visualization of molecules and a limited set of force field calculations for structure optimization. As such, this program is useful for research and education. Students will find this particularly helpful for visualizing structures and for drawing structures for assignments and projects. Instructors will no longer need to purchase and maintain their own copy. The program also provides a conduit to databases. 

Anyone with an NYU email address can to download this fully functional chemistry or biology software and have access to online databases via the prepaid New York University site license.

All are encouraged to use ChemDraw for research as well as for classroom instruction.  Note that this license will be available only if we use it, so please take advantage of this resource.  To download ChemDraw Ultra, and access any related database subscriptions, go to:

 http://scistore.cambridgesoft.com/sitelicense.cfm?sid=991

We would like to thank Margaret Smith, Physical Sciences Librarian, for her efforts in obtaining the NYU site license for ChemDraw and for making the funding possible to purchase this software.