Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, recently introduced new enhancements to its research and discovery tool, SciFinder. These enhancements are expected to accelerate researchers' workflow and can be of importance to synthetic chemists and other researchers who are engaged in lab preparations and synthesis planning.
In addition to presenting cleaner, more streamlined layouts, CAS chemists incorporated new features that enable researchers to view experimental procedures in context with a reaction; access experimental procedures from six American Chemical Society journals and patents from USPTO, EPO, and WIPO - all released between 2005 and 2009; examine, sort, and analyse experimental procedures for applicability to synthetic research needs; search structures using SMILES and InChI strings; enter SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) or InChI (International Chemical Identifier) text strings into SciFinder's drawing editor to conveniently generate structures; rank reactions by relevance; and bring the most relevant reactions to the top of the answer set, improving retrieval quality and speed.
SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more.
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