For those who haven’t encountered it yet, chemicalize.org is a tool for adding chemical information to your web browsing – and it’s free! Provided by the chemistry software company, ChemAxon, under a Creative Commons license, chemicalize can convert chemical names to structures – either on a query basis or converting an entire web page. In addition, ChemAxon have now added a page of calculated properties that can be accessed by clicking the generated 2D structure.
The tool will convert trivial chemical names such as saquinavir, as well as IUPAC names such as 7-chloro-1-methyl-5-phenyl-3H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one. Structure generation is based on ChemAxon’s name-to-structure software, although conversion of trivial names presumably relies on a database. I don’t know how comprehensive the database is, but it can certainly generate some interesting results when converting a web page – I hadn’t realised that trigger was a trivial name for something!
When a web page is converted, recognised structures are underlined in the text. Hovering over the underlined text produces a tooltip with the 2D structure of the molecule and this can be clicked to visit the calculated properties page. The properties page provides a variety of useful information including, logP, rotatable bond count, pKa etc. The layout of the properties page can also be adjusted by the user, with some standard layouts provided for medicinal or synthetic chemist.
You can see the chemicalized version of this post here and visit chemicalize.org for further information.