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Rings and structures

Short answer: Use the ring bar at the bottom to place rings from 3 to 8 atoms. Click a ring atom or bond to fuse a new ring. Clean up tidies the shape.

Last updated · By the MolDraw team at LabCanvas

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  1. Click a ring in the ring bar, such as benzene or cyclohexane.
  2. Click empty canvas to place it.
  3. Click an atom or bond of a ring to fuse or attach another ring.
  4. Click Clean up to even out bonds and angles.

Special rings#

  • The small arrow under cyclohexane gives chair and boat shapes.
  • The arrow under benzene gives a tilted arene for metal complexes.
  • Cyclopentadiene has a Cp option.

Select and move#

Drag a box with the select tool. Hold Shift and drag for a lasso. Use the handles to rotate or resize.

Note

For ChemDraw style ring shapes, turn on Indigo layout in Settings.

Questions and answers

How do I draw naphthalene?

Place a benzene ring. Then click one of its bonds with the benzene tool to fuse a second ring.

How do I draw a chair cyclohexane?

Open the small arrow under the cyclohexane button and pick Chair.