ChemDraw sketch file (CDX, CDXML)
The cdx format of CambridgeSoft's ChemDraw is imported and exported by Marvin. The import of cdxml format is supported, but export isn't.
Import
Supported features
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Atom properties: Following properties are supported: charge, isotope, substituents, free sites, unsaturation, reaction stereo, enhanced stereochemistry, radical, ring bond count.
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Element: The 'Element' type node is read as a single atom. For the supported properties see the supported Atom properties list.
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Element List: Element Lists are read as Atom List (or not list). For the supported properties see the supported node properties list.
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Label: Labels are converted to an S-group and imported in its contracted state.
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Nickname: Nicknames are converted to an S-group and imported in its contracted state.
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Bond types: Single bonds, double bonds, query bonds, topology, reaction centers are imported. See details.
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Fragment
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Generic Label: Generic Labels are read as Generic query atoms.
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Attachment Points: Attachment Points are imported.
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Reaction arrows: All types of arrows are imported, but only one arrow per file.
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Bracketed groups: All groups are imported.
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Alternative Group: Alternative Groups are read as R-groups, up to two connections per R-group.
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Anonymous Alternative Group: An Anonymous Alternative Group is imported as R-group and is assigned the R-group number n+1 where n is the largest R-group number in the file.
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R-logic
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Link Node: Link Node is read as Link Node.
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Variable Attachment and Multi-Center Attachment: These are imported as Multicenter S-groups.
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Text Box: Marvin reads the position and the formatted text.
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Basic Graphic Objects: Ellipses, rectangles and some of the symbols are read. See details.
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Graphic Objects: Tables and TLC plate drawings are imported as graphics. See details.
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Formatted text in atom labels: supported since 6.2.0.
Codename: cdx, cdxml
Extension: .cdx, .cdxml
Not supported features:
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ElementListNickname
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ElectronFlow arrow
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Complex graphical objects (e.g. laboratory equipment drawings, biological drawings)
Notes
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Only ASCII characters are imported.
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R-logic import is supported, export not yet.
Export
Supported features
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Chemical structures
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Formatted text
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R-groups: R-logic is not supported.
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Rectangles, rounded rectangles and ellipses