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This Guide brings together important research resources for Chemistry. These include article databases & journals, major reference works, and other key sources.

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Featured Chemistry resource

Here is the free complete open-access version of the long-standing peer-reviewed journal, Organic Syntheses.

What's new with SciFinder?

December 2024

"Are you looking for reactions?" feature

Have you ever entered a term such as “suzuki coupling” with the intent of searching reactions, but you forgot to change your search type? This new feature is designed to anticipate a user’s intent to access a reaction based on the search query they entered. When this occurs, a new interaction is displayed, allowing you to quickly navigate directly to the identified reaction(s).

Retrosynthesis improvements

  • Synthetic Depth elimination – the synthetic depth limit elimination expands options for plans presented to users, allowing them to find synthetic routes for large molecules requiring sequences of predicted steps.
  • Plan options simplification – improvements to the plan options page include the removal of synthetic depth options and improved labeling. In addition, scoring profiles have been removed from the plan results page to improve usability.

 

For a full overview of each month’s release, click “What’s New?” to visit the What's New section of CAS SciFinder.

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