JChemPaint

Chemistry is responsible for the analysis and understanding of bonds formed and taking place at a microscopic level. It helps in various research domains and takes a lot of time and practice to get right. In this regard, specialized applications like JChemPaint give you the possibility to easily create chemical structures with different elements.

The application comes in a light package, requiring no installation for proper functionality. This means your computer's registries remain intact, also giving you the possibility to take it with you on a removable disk drive. The only thing you need to make sure is whether the PC you run it on is equipped with Java Runtime Environment.

With the application up and running, accommodation is a walk in the park, especially if you know a thing or two about chemistry. Most of the space is your interactive preview area, where you easily create bonds and place elements from an upper toolbar, which is fitted with all you need.

A mouse click is enough to place the selected item. These are easily connected by paying attention to interactive zones that appear when hovering the cursor over created elements. This enables you to create structures of all shapes and types, with the corresponding compound shown in the status bar.

Needless to say that you can place any element found in Mendeleev's periodic table. It can even be brought up for manual selection, as well as custom input through keyboard characters. Multiple types of bonds are used to link elements, thus define a compound. What's more, several predefined elements are at your disposal to add propane, butane, pentane, hexane, heptane, octane, and benzene rings.

When you're done, you can take the time to tweak and clean up elements. Using corresponding options, the application automatically arranges elements in a neat order. Different reports can be generated, as well as export options that allow you to create BMP, JPG, PNG, TIFF, and SVG files.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that JChemPaint is a small, but practical application with which you can create chemical structures using comprehensive tools. The whole process only requires chemistry knowledge so you know what to place, because the application quickly gets you familiar with how it's done.