Question

What are good programs for drawing chemical structures?

Answer 1

There are a couple of good freeware programs out there, along with student or freeware versions of commercial software.

Here's a list of freeware programs that you can use for drawing chemical structures:

http://www.sciencegeek.net/Chemistry/chemware/chemware.shtml

Commercial software that have student downlodable versions include

http://www.chemdoodle.com/

http://www.acdlabs.com/resources/freeware/chemsketch/

http://www.cambridgesoft.com/Ensemble_for_Chemistry/ChemDraw/

Oh, and some lists on other molecular design software:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_design_software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule_editor