mol2chemfig, a tool for rendering chemical structures from molfile or SMILES format to LATEX code by Eric K Brefo-Mensah and Michael Palmer.
Abstract:
Displaying chemical structures in LATEX documents currently requires either hand-coding of the structures using one of several LATEX packages, or the inclusion of finished graphics files produced with an external drawing program. There is currently no software tool available to render the large number of structures available in molfile or SMILES format to LATEX source code. We here present mol2chemfig, a Python program that provides this capability. Its output is written in the syntax defined by the chemfig TEX package, which allows for the flexible and concise description of chemical structures and reaction mechanisms. The program is freely available both through a web interface and for local installation on the user?s computer. The code and accompanying documentation can be found at http://chimpsky.uwaterloo.ca/mol2chemfig.
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