Gedeon Richter Chooses ACD/ChemSketch as Their Chemical Drawing Package
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce that Chemical Works of Gedeon Richter Ltd., the largest pharmaceutical company in Hungary and a key player in the Eastern European pharmaceutical market, has licensed ACD/Labs’ comprehensive chemical drawing software, ACD/ChemSketch, for their headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, and manufacturing unit in Dorog, Hungary.
Gedeon Richter performed a thorough feature-to-feature comparison of several chemical drawing packages, and based on the results, selected ACD/ChemSketch 8.0 to replace their existing enterprise-wide chemical drawing software license.
Mr. Vince Szucs, IT Director for Gedeon Richter, states, “We are satisfied with ACD/ChemSketch as it perfectly fits our enterprise environment, it is manageable, and provides an excellent chemical drawing suite for our users.” Gedeon Richter has been using ACD/Labs software, including their 1H and 13C NMR Predictors, for close to ten years.
Through the agreement coordinated by CheMicro Research & Development Co., Ltd., the official ACD/Labs Distributor for Hungary, Gedeon Richter is also being provided with a one-year subscription to ACD/Name and ACD/LogD Suite, which will enable researchers to generate accurate systematic names and select physicochemical properties for the structures drawn in ACD/ChemSketch.
Dr. Antal Lopata, Managing Director for CheMicro, comments, “We are pleased that we could help Gedeon Richter choose the appropriate chemical drawing software, and that we could complete the drawing package with the IUPAC naming and logD prediction tools.”
ACD/Name generates accurate systematic names according to IUPAC recommendations and CAS Index rules for almost any organic structure and selected classes of biochemical, organometallic, and inorganic structures. ACD/LogD Suite provides a full array of tools for the prediction of physicochemical properties of compounds, among those, logD as a pH-dependent measure of hydrophobicity; pKa; and logP. Information about these products can be found at www.acdlabs.com/name and www.acdlabs.com/logdsuite, respectively.
Further information regarding the advanced capabilities of the commercial ACD/ChemSketch software is available at www.acdlabs.com/chemsketch. A freeware version of ACD/ChemSketch is available for personal, home, and educational use.
About Advanced Chemistry Development
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is a chemistry software company offering solutions that truly integrate chemical structures with analytical chemistry information to produce ChemAnalytics®. ACD/Labs creates innovative software packages that aid chemical research scientists worldwide with spectroscopic validation of structures, elucidation of unknown substances, chromatographic separation, medicinal chemistry, preformulation of novel drug agents, systematic nomenclature generation, and chemical patenting and publication. Combined, ACD/Labs’ solutions create an analytical informatics system that provides dramatic feed-forward effects on the chemical and pharmaceutical research process. Founded in 1993, and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, ACD/Labs employs a team of over 100 dedicated individuals whose continual efforts carry ACD/Labs’ innovative technologies into pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and materials companies throughout the world. Information about Advanced Chemistry Development and its products can be found at www.acdlabs.com .
About CheMicro Research & Development Co., Ltd.
CheMicro Research and Development Co. Ltd. is a Hungarian distributor of scientific chemistry software produced by leading software companies including Advanced Chemistry Development, CambridgeSoft®, Hypercube, Thomson™ Scientific, Tripos®, and Wavefunction. The company is also involved in software development and consultancy, as well as in reselling Silicon Graphics servers and workstations. CheMicro was founded in 1989. Its clients include Hungarian chemical and pharmaceutical companies, academic research institutions, and universities. For additional information about CheMicro and the sale of ACD/Labs products in Hungary, please contact lopata@chemicro.hu .
About Gedeon Richter
Founded in 1901, Gedeon Richter Ltd., headquartered in Budapest/Hungary, is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies of Central Eastern Europe, a regional multinational company with about 2.3 billion USD market capitalization. Gedeon Richter Ltd. plays the role of a regional multinational company in the Central Eastern Europe and in the CIS, and has a growing presence through its commercial offices in key EU countries, the USA, and Japan. Its annual sales in 2004 amounted to 599 million USD. Richter’s products are exported to nearly one hundred countries (EU, USA, Japan, Russia, etc). The Company has a worldwide presence through its agents and subsidiaries in 30 countries, and 5 production sites are found outside Hungary. The product portfolio of the company includes more than 100 products, and covers almost all important therapeutic areas. Based on its traditional skills in steroid chemistry, the company is a significant player in the gynecological field worldwide. A significant part of the company’s turnover results from original drug research and development activity, which is presently focused on the diseases of the central nervous system. Information about Gedeon Richter and its products can be found at http://www.richter.hu .
