On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:40:24 +0100, Philip Herlihy me@localhost wrote:

If you look at the bottom of the link you quote there is also an option
to export as Excel (you get a tab-separated text file). That could be
imported into Access much more readily than the SDF file, which (from
the Wikipedia link) appears to be a multi-line format, which takes real
work to convert into the sort of structure a relational database uses.

shudder

I was REALLY REALLY glad when Molecular Design offered the Excel export
option. I spent a bad couple of months back in 1992 or so trying to extract
data from sdfiles.

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John W. Vinson [MVP]