Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, registered its 75 millionth small molecule. CAS REGISTRY, traditionally known for providing access to substances reported in the literature back to the early 1800s, now contains this substance identified in a chemical catalogue. In addition to covering substances from journals and patents, CAS REGISTRY includes substances from chemical catalogues, worldwide governmental regulatory agencies and valuable web resources.
CAS claims to be the only organisation in the world whose objective is to find, collect and organise all publicly disclosed chemical substance information. To support the needs of discovery chemists and intellectual property professionals worldwide, CAS has collected, and added to the CAS REGISTRY, fine chemicals from commercial suppliers since 1995.
A recent update from Aurora Fine Chemicals to CHEMCATS, the commercially available chemical database comprising millions of substances from more than 880 suppliers, is the source of the 75 millionth unique small molecule in the CAS REGISTRY. This molecule, available for purchase from Aurora, may be useful to chemical, biochemical and biomedical researchers alike. Although this compound is new to the CAS REGISTRY, substances similar to it, previously indexed by CAS, have been studied for their medicinal effects.
Seeking to improve workflow and to help speed the pace of scientific research, CAS provides scientists with convenient and rapid access to starting materials for chemical synthesis, pharmaceutical development, diagnosis and large scale manufacturing. With the inclusion of chemical suppliers from around the world, SciFinder, the choice for chemistry research, gives chemists direct access to commercially available fine chemicals.
