BKChem
Bkchem is a drawing program for creating chemical formulas. The program is available under the GPL license and was originally developed by Beda Kosata in the Python programming language. The program is, according to the developer an after-work project until today available in development and is currently in version 0.13.0.
Platforms
Bkchem is an open source program and be available as source code. There compiled program packages for Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux. For many Linux distributions tailored program packages in the repositories are available.
Importance
Program features
In addition to drawing chemical formulas with reaction arrows, radicals, lone pairs and charges bkchem also dominates template. The export of the structures to SVG (with optional Cairo support), OpenOffice, PDF, EPS, MDL Molfile, PNG, SMILES and InChI is supported. When importing you can Molfile SMILES and InChI and select ( the latter two without stereochemistry). As languages are German, English, French, Czech and Polish.
Start-up Image
When starting the program appears as the start screen the THC molecule, one of the psychoactive ingredients in cannabis.