name overview
Get systematic chemical names for structures and generate structures from names
ACD/Name generates chemical names according to IUPAC rules, converts chemical names to structures, and easily handles difficult naming areas.
- Generate names for Bio; biochemical; and some inorganic, organometallic and polymeric structures
- Convert systematic or trivial names to structures
Benefits
IUPAC nomenclature at your fingertips
Easy to use
- Name your molecule with a click of the button
full coverage
- Generate names and structures for a wide range of molecules
chemically conscious
- Automatically identifies tautomers and stereocenters
Accurate and up-to-date implementation of IUPAC rules
- The name is updated regularly to support new recommendations.
Deeper understanding of naming rules
- Highlight each fragment of its structure to view the applicable IUPAC rule
assign stereo descriptors and numbering to atoms; Show a "hierarchical graph" for each stereocenter.
Dynamically display the naming rules used to name your structure.
Name steroids and other natural parent compounds according to IUPAC recommendations.
Generate the preferred IUPAC name for your structure with the push of a button.
Peptide sequence names can be represented with one or three letter codes for amino acids.
Generate names for branched ring arrays.
assign stereo descriptors and numbering to atoms; Show a "hierarchical graph" for each stereocenter.
How it works
Name molecules easily and accurately
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- 1Draw or import a structure
- 2Generate the IUPAC name
- 3Check the generated name and references to the IUPAC rule from which the structure was derived
Customer Reviews
"We use ACD/Name daily to verify the nomenclature of submitted manuscripts."
Richard J. Smith,
Editor-in-Chief, Helvetica Chimica Acta
“ACD/Name was temporarily unavailable for <1 month while we migrated to new PCs; more than 50% of patent attorneys noticed and complained during this period.”
David Ennis
AstraZeneca
"Compared to other naming software...the quality of names generated by ACD/Name is second to none."
Gernot Eller
Molecules, 11, 915-928, 2006
product characteristics
name features
- chemical structure for naming
- Chemical name for the structure
- Naming supported in 21 languages
Draw, copy/paste or import molecular structures in multiple formats (including ChemDraw, MOL files and SMILES)
See the complete list of supported data formats- Generate accurate systematic names according to IUPAC recommendations
- Create index names according to CAS naming rules*
- Generate names for organic, biochemical, inorganic, and organometallic structures, including:
- Various functional groups including acids, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, ethers, peroxides, salts and more
- Mono and polycyclic systems
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous chains
- Structures of natural products (steroids, alkaloids, terpenes and carotenes)
- Carbohydrates (in Haworth and other representations)
- Amino acids, peptides and derivatives
- Radicals and charged structures
- some polymers
- Assign stereo descriptors (R/S,E/Z,M/P,R/S,seqCis/seqTrans, a bandcis/trans)
- number of atoms
- Display a "hierarchical diagram" for each stereo center
- Dynamically display the naming rules used to name your framework
- Import multiple SD file structures and automatically generate their names
- Export structures and names as SD files
*Index naming algorithms were developed exclusively by ACD/Labs and CAS makes no representations or warranties as to their effectiveness or accuracy. If you need names of chemical substances to report to regulatory authorities, they must be verified manually or obtained directly from CAS.
- Generate accurate chemical name structures including:
- Systematic, semi-systematic and trivial names of organic compounds
- Structures of Natural Products and Derivatives
- amino acids and peptides; including three-letter codes for peptides
- Complex molecules such as carbohydrates and polysaccharides
- Functional groups including acids and derivatives, aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, ethers and more
- False names that do not strictly follow the rules of organic naming
- Generate a structure of many names and identifiers, including:
- InChI and SMILES notations
- CAS registration and EU numbers
- Trade and registered names (DCI, USAN, BAN, JAN)
- Denote the stereo configuration of chiral centers and double bonds
- Generate structure derivations with trivial and semitrivial dictionary names
- Ambiguous names generate a warning or several possible structures to check
- Generate systematic names in English, French and German
- IUPAC nomenclature is supported in 18 additional languages - Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish**
- Differences in spelling, grammar, and citation order for substituents are accounted for in these language variants
- Set your naming and language preferences
** Name development in specific languages is ongoing and in some cases the generated name may differ from local language recommendations. We recommend consulting the naming recommendations for your language to ensure accuracy.
Name (Chemical Version)
Quick and easy generation of IUPAC names
For scientists who don't need the extended ACD/Name functionality, we offerACD/Name (chemical version).
This software generates IUPAC names from structures and structures from names; without the advanced features, language options, and rule derivations required by naming experts.
Check out a feature comparison of our different compound naming software
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- Subscription license (including maintenance, billed annually until expiration) –$ 418,00
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- Requirements
- Software License vs. Subscription License
- maintenance
operating system requirements
- Windows 8.1 (x64)
- Windows 10 (x64)
Hardware Requirements
- Microsoft Windows compatible PC with at least 2 core CPU
- 4 GB or more RAM
- At least 40 GB of storage space
software license
- Provided in perpetuity, with term technical support and software updates.
subscription license
- Subscribe to the software annually, outside this period the license is invalid. Automatically extended until further notice.
ACD/Labs maintenance provides product enhancements, bug fixes, software updates and access to our experienced technical support specialists for the duration of the plan.Read all the details here.
Deployment/Integration Options
Need to name hundreds or thousands of connections?
For researchers who need to generate names for compound libraries or process hundreds of structures for compound registration, we offerACD/NomesstapelEACD/name for structure stack.
- Generate names for thousands of structures in one session
- Choose from different languages to generate IUPAC names
- Process text files and databases in SD format
- Generate InChI identifiers
- Save the generated names in .sdf, .rtf or .txt files
- Available for Windows or Linux operating systems
ChemSketch is included with Name for all your structural drawing needs.
Start in the ChemSketch interface to draw or import a structure and quickly generate the IUPAC name for your drawn structure with a click of a button.
See what else you can do with ChemSketch
More reasons to use names
IUPAC Nomenclature Rules
The IUPAC Recommendations on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (IUPAC Blue Book)1provide naming principles for all classes of organic compounds and continue to evolve.
In 2013, a new version of the IUPAC Blue Book was published, containing a large number of changes and new recommendations to keep pace with the increasing complexity of chemical substances.
The most significant change was the concept of the “IUPAC Preferred Name” (PIN), which is now determined by a hierarchical order of criteria that allow the derivation of a single systematic name for registrations, patents, regulations, etc.
In addition, this publication included naming principles developed for more complex substances and new classes of compounds, such as fullerenes and cyclophanes.
Most of the updated IUPAC organic naming recommendations were implemented in ACD/Name v2015 and later. The full text of these recommendations is available in print.1and in HTML format2. We hope to make these recommendations available in our ACD/Name software in the future.
Previously published versions of the IUPAC Nomenclature Rules (from 1979 and 1993) are available electronically on our websiteHere.
our contribution
ACD/Labs is proud of our involvement in the development of new organic nomenclature recommendations, both through our long-standing association with relevant IUPAC bodies and our contribution to the results of our nomenclature work. We are continuing to update our naming software to support these new recommendations.
references
- Favre, Henri A. e Powell, Warren H.Organic chemistry nomenclature. IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Name 2013. Cambridge, Grã-Bretanha: The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013. ISBN 978-0-85404-182-4.
- Moos, G.P. (2021, June 18).Organic chemistry nomenclature. IUPAC recommendations and preferred names 2013.https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbcs/iupac/BlueBook/
What's new!
What's new in Nome v2022
- You can now generate chemical names in three more languages: Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian
- You can now export SD files with Unicode special characters
- Various improvements to IUPAC name generation, including starch substituents and atropisomer recognition
Read the full list of what's new
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Nomenclature Comparison of products
| Name | Name (Chemical Version) | chemical draft | |
| naming systems | IUPAC, CAS, IUBMB | IUPAC | IUPAC |
| languages | english, french, german | english, french, german | English |
| Name capability for structure | E | E | NO |
| Support for another language | Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish | NO | NO |
| Maximum number of atoms per molecule | 1024 (except H) | 1024 (except H) | 50 (including H) |
| metallic elements and cations | All elements except noble gases | All elements except noble gases | H, C, N, P, O, S, F, Cl, Br, I, Li, Na e K |
| Maximum number of rings per cyclic fragment | 20 | 20 | 3 |
| Import/Export *.sdf files | Up to 99 structures | NO | NO |
| Link to IUPAC rules and explanations on name derivation | E | NO | NO |
| Maximum number of characters per name | Unlimited | Unlimited | 100 characters |
Supported file formats
| provider or file format | Date format | Comments |
| Chemical Drawings | ||
| ACD/Laboratories | *.sk2 | |
| ChemAxon Marvin Sketch | *.mrv | entry only |
| Draw Dassault Systems BIOVIA | *.SK C | Früher ISIS Sketch, MDL Draw, Symyx Draw e Accelrys Draw |
| PerkinElmer ChemDraw | *.cdx, *cdxml, *.chm | |
| Adobe Acrobat | leave only | |
| Chemical structures and reactions | ||
| chemical markup language | *.cml | leave only |
| formed FESTIVALS | *.fasta and others | peptide sequences |
| InChI | text string | |
| InChiKey | text string | leave only |
| MOL files | *.mol | |
| Pistoia Alliance LEME | *.helm, *.xhelm | Peptide sequences, input for xhelm files only |
| reaction files | *.rxn | |
| SMILE | text string | |
| Photos | ||
| GIF image format | *.gif | |
| JPG image format | *.jpg | entry only |
| Brush | *.pcx | leave only |
| png image format | *.png | |
| TIFF-Bitmap | *.tif | leave only |
| Windows-Bitmap | *.bmp, *.dib | |
| Windows-Metadatei | *.wmf |
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