Our university has a site license for CambridgeSoft's ChemOffice stuff, so it's what our chemists use almost exclusively. Part of the ChemOffice suite is ChemDraw for Excel, and they use this to submit compounds and associated data for registration, where an SD file is exported from Excel and then pushed into the registration system. The downer here is that ChemDraw for Excel always exports its SD files in V2000 format, which quietly and insidiously throws away any enhanced stereochemistry that the compounds might have.

So, I'm in the market for a PP reader that might be able to read these files directly to avoid the SD file intermediate. Does anyone have any experience with this? Are the compounds in these documents represented as cdx content wrapped in whatever OLE container Excel throws in?


thanks!
Chris