What are Ketcher user interface menu icons?

Ketcher user interface menu icons are organized into 4 toolbars:

1. Action toolbar - Displayed horizontally at the top of the window, the main toolbar contains the following buttons to perform different actions:

• Clear canvas - Removes everything in the editor.
• Open - Imports structure from local structure files or copy-paste content.
• Save as - Exports structure from the editor in multiple formats.
• Copy - Copies the selected sub-structure to other applications.
• Paste - Pastes structures copies from other applications.
• Cut - Cuts the selected sub-structure off.
• Undo - Undo the last change on the structure.
• Redo - Redo the last undo change.
• Aromatize - Converts the structure to Aromatic presentation.
• Dearomatize - Converts the structure to Kekule presentation.
• Layout - Adjusts the layout of the structure.
• Clean up - Adjusts bond lengths and angles of the structure.
• Calculate CIP - Determines R/S and E/Z configurations.
• Check - Checks the structure for errors.
• Calculated values - Displays chemical properties.
• 3D viewer - Opens the structure in a 3D viewer.
• Settings - Displays and updates settings.
• Help - Displays the user guide in a Web browser.
• About - Displays version information.
• Fullscreen mode - Changes the Ketcher editor to full screen mode.
• Zoom - Displays the current zoom percentage and changing options.

2. Drawing toolbar - Displayed vertically at the left of the window, the drawing toolbar contains the following buttons to edit the structure:

• Hand tool - Allows you to move the structure.
• Selection tool - Allows you to select sub-structure in rectangle, lasso or fragment selection mode.
• Erase tool - Allows you to erase parts of the structure.
• Bond tool - Allows you to add different types of bonds including any bonds.
• Chain tool - Allows you to draw chains of carbons.
• Stereochemistry tool - Allows you to assign and display enhanced stereochemistry properties of the structure.
• Charge plus - Allows you to increase the charge of an atom by 1.
• Charge minus - Allows you to decrease the charge of an atom by 1.
• Rotate tool - Allows you to rotate or flip the selected sub-structure.
• S-Group tool - Allows you to mark S-Groups.
• Reaction plus - Allows you to add the plus mark for a reaction structure.
• Arrow tool - Allows you to add different types of arrows for a reaction structure.
• Reaction mapping - Allows you to map same atoms in reagents and products.
• R-Group label - Allows you to draw R-groups in Markush structure.
• Shape tool - Allows you to draw geometry shapes.
• Text tool - Allows you to dd text to the structure.

3. Atoms toolbar - Displayed vertically at the right of the window, the atoms toolbar contains the following buttons to add or change atoms in the structure:

• H - Hydrogen
• C - Carbon
• N - Nitrogen
• O - Oxygen
• S - Sulfur
• F - Fluorine
• CI - Chlorine
• Br - Bromine
• I - Iodine
• PT - Periodic Table
• A - Any atom
• ET - Extended table

4. Templates toolbar - Displayed horizontally at the bottom of the window, the Templates toolbar contains the following buttons to add predefined structures:

• Benzene
• Cyclopentadiene
• Cyclohexane
• Cyclopentane
• Cyclopropane
• Cyclobutane
• Cycloheptane
• Cyclooctane
• Custom templates

The following picture shows locations of those toolbars.

For more details, see "Ketcher Overview" at Ketcher github.com Website.

⇒ Show InChI String on Ketcher

⇐ Ketcher Editor User Interface

⇑ Ketcher Editor User Interface

⇑⇑ Ketcher - Chemical Structure Editor