Drawing Orbitals, Symbols, Arrows, Arcs, and Other Shapes

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Overview

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ChemDraw provides the following tools and tool palettes that enable you to add chemical symbols and shapes to your documents (A tool palette is indicated by a in the lower right corner of the tool.):

• Orbital tools palette -to draw orbitals.
• Chemical Symbols tools palette -to draw charges, radicals, and other symbols.
• Arrow tools palette -to draw arrows.
• Drawing Elements tools palette -to draw boxes, circles, and lines.
• Brackets tools palette -to draw brackets, braces, parentheses, and daggers.
• Arc tools palette -to draw arcs.
• Pen tool -to draw freehand shapes.
• TLC tool -to reproduce TLC experiments.

You can use the tool palettes as extensions of the Main Tool Palette, or you can tear them off and place them anywhere on your screen.