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Incorporating Digital and Creative Technologies within Chemistry (continued)
Quick and neat hydrocarbons
It is drawing all those pesky hydrogens, especially on the long molecules, which can be very tedious.
ChemSketch allows you to quickly add your methyl groups to a growing chain, as in Figure 2, use a tool to
automatically add each hydrogen from the tool drop down menu, (Figure 3) and then tidy the whole thing up
and pasting it into a document; format shown in Figure 4.
with this button before copying
Figure 2 Drag the C across the workspace and add it to successive carbons to create a chain
Figure 3 The change in structure after you use the “Add Explicit Hydrogens” from the tool bar
Figure 4 Use the 'tidy tool' to even up the structure, then paste it into your document
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