With the same look-and-feel as ISIS/Draw, Accelrys Draw delivers speed and efficiency to your chemical drawing experience.

Why upgrade from what you're already using?

• Improved creation and presentation of chemical structures, biologics and chemical aspects of biologics
• Additional features such as multiple undo, name-to-structure, structure-to-name conversion, molecule templates, ChemDraw file support, InChI and Canonical SMILES support
• An all-purpose drawing tool that enables fast and easy structure and reaction drawing
• Easy-to-use Rgroup functionality
• Multiple free add-ins to support desk top searching, file viewing, reaction stoichiometry calculations, calculate as you draw physicochemical properties, Markush structure enumeration, ACD lab integration and much more...

Accelrys Draw can easily swap out existing ISIS/Draw or ChemDraw applications.

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Click here for more details about Rgroups, an example, and a detailed procedure how to draw a Markush query.

To draw a Markush query:

1. Draw the root structure. Use the other drawing tools.

2. Add Rgroup atom to the root structure.

   1. Click the "Create Markush structure or query"v tool.
   2. Click the atom that you want to replace.
   3. Select an Rgroup from the palette.

3. Draw the Rgroup members with the chemical drawing tools. Step 4 will always add an additional bond. Remove the CN bond of teh default NO2 query.

4. Add Rgroup members.

   1. Click the "Create Markush structure or query" tool.
   2. Click the fragment that you want to add.
   3. Drag and drop the fragment onto the Rgroup definition (Rn=). Try toselect the whole group. Wait until you have a blue boy around the group.

5. (Optional) Move attachment points.

   1. Click the Markush Query tool.
   2. Click the asterisk of the attachment point.
   3. Drag and drop the asterisk onto the atom that you want.
6. (Optional) Change the occurence. If an Rgroup atom appears at more than one instance (or place) in the root structure, you see "R1 = n (where n is defined as the number of occurences), R2 >0, etc." appear automatically next to the Rgroup definition (Rn =). For each such Rgroup, you need to specify the frequency (occurrence), the number of times that a member of this Rgroup must appear in retrieved structures. To change the frequency:
   1. Select the Rgroup Query Tool.
   2. Click the occurence definition (R1 = n), located next to the Rgroup definition (Rn =).
   3. Select a number from the dialog box that is displayed.
   4. Click OK to accept your selection. The frequency definition is updated with your selection.