Breaking ACS Monopoly: Downloading Chemical Structures from PubChem for Free

Gavin Shear and Karim Kassam, Transferring Structures from PubChem to ACD/ChemSketch, Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD), n.d. Detailed instructions for working chemists who need to find or download structures from PubChem, plus this more general observation:

The ability to easily and accurately transfer structures from the PubChem database, as well as other sources into ACD/ChemSketch provides increased access to chemical information. The chances of costly errors due to inaccurate structure translations are greatly reduced. As well, the fact that chemical information can easily be managed, exploited, and distributed via ChemSketch and other ACD/Labs software is conducive to improved productivity. Once structures are in the ACD/ChemSketch interface, they can be utilized readily by the multiple prediction and databasing tools offered by ACD/Labs as well as with other applications such as other cheminformatic systems and common reporting applications like Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF.

Source: Peter Suber. Downloading structures from PubChem. OANews (26 September 2005) [FullText]