Category Archives: Basic Sciences

SciFinder adds new features

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SciFinder’s latest update improves precision and evaluation of reaction answer sets and allows easier collaboration with other SciFinder users.

More Precise Reaction Answer Sets

  • A new default role (reactant) assigned to substances or fragments to the left of the reaction arrow improves the precision of reaction searches. (The former default role of reactant/reagent is still an option.)

Group Reaction Answers by Transformation

  • Evaluate synthesis options and preferred pathways quickly by grouping single-step reaction answers by transformation type
  • Classify answers in a way that is meaningful to synthetic chemists
  • Manage and evaluate large, comprehensive answer sets easily
  • Take advantage of hundreds of common transformation types

Property Search

  • Search substances by individual experimental or predicted property
  • Target substances with a particular property value or range of values in the CAS REGISTRYSM, which contains more than 66 million substances characterized by 3.6 billion experimental and predicted properties

Share SciPlanner™ Plans

  • Export a plan locally in the new SciPlanner exchange format (.pkx) and email or share the file with a colleague
  • Open shared plans using the new Import feature

For more information, go to SciFinder’s What’s New page.

Reaxys & SciFinder: New biochemistry resources in focus at Showcase

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The exciting new and enhanced biochemistry resources SciFinder and a new resource available on November 9th, Reaxys, will be featured at the upcoming Fall Library Showcase. Space is limited and registration is required for the workshops.
Working with the new SciFinder Webinar workshop is on Wednesday, November 18th from 9:30a.m. – 11 a.m in the Library Administration Conference Room on the Middle Floor of the South Campus (main) Library. Marie Sparks, SciFinder Trainer, will highlight the new capabilities of the Web-based SciFinder portal. Topics will include:

  • Creating email alerts by topic or journal
  • Demonstrating how to identify if a molecule (particular structure drawn) has biological activity or is part of the structure of a “natural product”
  • Locating spectral data on compounds, such as Carbon 13
  • Locating physical data, such as boiling and melting points

Using Reaxys is on Thursday, November 19th from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. in the South Campus (main) Library Classroom on the Main Floor. Dr. Lee Smith, Reaxys representative and trainer, will be introducing this new resource which combines the following three well-respected databases into a single access point:

  • CrossFire Beilstein
  • CrossFire Gmelin
  • Patent Chemistry Database

Come prepared with any questions, generic or specific, that you may have – there will be time to ask!