vibe-sketch for Chemical Structure Drawing and Calculation Preparation

About the paper

vibe-sketch connects chemical structure drawing, publication graphics and calculation preparation in one editable document. The paper follows one example, butadiene and ethene forming cyclohexene, from the sketch through twelve vibe-qc calculations to the orbitals in vibe-view. vibe-sketch is open source (MPL-2.0) and available for macOS and Linux.

@misc{vibe-sketch-2026,
  title = {{vibe-sketch for Chemical Structure Drawing and Calculation Preparation}},
  author = {Peintinger, Michael F.},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.26434/chemrxiv.15011089/v1},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15011089/v1},
  howpublished = {ChemRxiv},
  note = {Preprint, version 1}
}