From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Wed Nov 23 08:31:00 2005
From: "Jonathan Brecher jsb|-|cambridgesoft.com" <owner-chemistry~~server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL: Converting CAS names to structures
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Sent to CCL by: Jonathan Brecher [jsb:+:cambridgesoft.com]
>Does anybody know of any 3rd party tools preferably freeware that 
>could convert CAS names to structures?  A lot of tools do this with 
>IUPAC names, but I havent been able to find one that converts CAS 
>names.

Actually, I don't know of any program that can convert chemical names 
to structures that *can't* handle CAS names.  Both ChemDraw 
(http://www.cambridgesoft.com) and ACD/Name (http://www.acdlabs.com) 
definitely can.  Of course, either application might fail on any 
given name, but that would be the exception not the rule.

Jonathan Brecher
CambridgeSoft Corporation
jsb-#-cambridgesoft.com