ChemWriter Keyboard Shortcuts for Faster Structure Drawing
ChemWriter is a chemical structure editor that can be embedded into web pages. One of our main goals was to make chemical structure entry as fast as it can be. Toward this end, a number of keyboard shortcuts were built in.
Keyboard shortcuts are accessed by hovering the mouse cursor over an existing atom and pressing a key, either with or without the shift key. All ChemWriter keyboard shortcuts are listed below:
- a: Benzene (aromatic) ring.
- b: Boron atom.
- c: Carbon atom.
- f: Fluorine atom.
- h: Hydrogen atom.
- i: Iodine atom.
- l: Chlorine atom.
- n: Nitrogen atom.
- o: Oxygen atom.
- p: Phosphorous atom.
- r: Bromine atom.
- s: Sulfur atom.
- t: Tin atom.
- z: Silicon atom.
- delete/backspace: Delete currrent atom or selection.