ChemDraw: the essential software for drawing chemical structures

The University has subscribed a three-year subscription to Revvity Signals ChemDraw and Signals Notebook, available to all institutional users.

Signals ChemDraw is a software for drawing and representing chemical structures, used in chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, and materials science.
Main features:

• Molecular structure drawing: ChemDraw allows you to create accurate representations of molecules, organic and inorganic compounds, polymers, biological structures, and much more. The intuitive interface enables quick drawing of even complex structures.
• Chemical reactions: You can illustrate reaction mechanisms, synthetic schemes, and metabolic pathways with professional precision, using arrows, reaction conditions, and custom annotations.
• Chemical property calculations: The software integrates tools to calculate molecular weight, molecular formula, estimated boiling point, and other physicochemical properties of drawn molecules.
• Chemical nomenclature: ChemDraw automatically generates IUPAC names and converts names into structures, facilitating scientific communication and literature research.
• Database integration: Ability to search for structures in chemical databases such as Reaxys, PubChem, and others, directly from the program interface.
• Publication preparation: Created structures are publication-quality and can be exported in various formats (PNG, SVG, PDF, etc.) for inclusion in scientific articles, theses, presentations, and posters.
• Templates and libraries: Access to a wide range of predefined templates (amino acids, nucleotides, sugars, aromatic rings) that speed up drawing work.

Signals Notebook is a cloud-based Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) platform designed to modernize scientific research documentation, replacing traditional paper notebooks with a powerful, secure, and collaborative digital tool.
Main features:

• Electronic experiment documentation: Allows recording of experimental protocols, observations, results, and conclusions in digital format, with automatic timestamps that guarantee data traceability and integrity.
• ChemDraw integration: Chemical structures created in ChemDraw can be easily incorporated into the notebook, creating rich and professional documentation of chemical research.
• Multimedia data management: You can attach files of any type (images, graphs, NMR spectra, chromatograms, videos, datasets), centralizing all experimental documentation in a single environment.
• Search and organization: Powerful search tools allow you to quickly retrieve past experiments, chemical structures, experimental conditions, or specific results within the entire laboratory archive.
• Collaboration and sharing: The notebook facilitates collaboration among research group members, allowing protocol sharing, commenting on others' experiments, and working simultaneously on common projects, even remotely.
• Customizable templates: You can create standardized templates for recurring procedures, ensuring documentation uniformity and saving time in experiment preparation.
• Regulatory compliance: Signals Notebook is designed to meet compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and regulated research (FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GLP, GMP), with electronic signature functionality and complete audit trail.
• Security and backup: Being cloud-based, data is automatically saved, protected by redundant backups, and accessible from any device with internet connection, eliminating the risk of information loss.
• Intellectual property: The certified dating of experiments and modification traceability provide solid documentation for intellectual property protection and potential patents.

To use the Revvity Signals ChemDraw and Notebook subscription software, visit the Revvity Signals portal at https://unipadova.signalsresearch2.revvitycloud.eu/
Log in via SSO with your institutional email @unipd.it or @studenti.unipd.it, see also the User guide.