Making Claude a chemist

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Anthropic is expanding Claude’s use in chemistry workflows and is testing how well the model handles NMR spectroscopy. The post compares Claude against ChemDraw and MestReNova on forward prediction and inverse structure elucidation tasks. Claude 4.7 performs strongly, matching or exceeding the dedicated tools on several benchmarks and showing useful consistency across runs. The article also frames chemistry as a multimodal reasoning problem where AI can reduce manual translation and interpretation work for chemists. Anthropic says it will keep extending Claude’s usefulness for research and invites scientists to engage with its AI for Science program.

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