[ale] Any Chemical types here?

[Tom Freeman]

I have put this off longer that sanity suggests is safe: Anybody on this 
list use one of the open source chemical structure editors on a regular 
basis? Which one suits you best, given your needs?

Back story:

I start teaching a freshman level Organic/Biochem class to a crowd of 
community college students in another week and change. I need a structure
editor with which to create chemical structures for import to 
OpenOffice which is my currently chosen document creation solution (buzz 
word central - sorry). For at least the first session, I will need to 
create 50-60 molecular structures a week, on the budget of an adjunct 
teacher at a state school (ie. no budget at all). Worse (in a way) it is a 
small school, and I'm the only chemical type on staff at all. All my 
chemical/education contacts are Windows types, and thus not terribly 
useful in this case.

Currently, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on the laptop, and Fedora 13 on the 
desktop without development systems on either. I know how to get the 
developement systems working under Fedora, but I've been less successful 
with Ubuntu.

Any clues running around the list?

Thanks for the assistance in advance people. Even if I cann't get to 
Atlanta functions, this is an awesome resource here!