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SciFinder-n: What’s new?
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Andrew McKay is the Regional Market Manager for Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) looking after all SciFinder subscribers across Australia and New Zealand. He has a Degree in Applied Science from the University of Tasmania and worked as a R&D Chemist before joining CAS in 2015. His role at CAS is to ensure the success of all CAS Customers, be they students, faculty or researchers by helping them accelerate their research and find that insight or difficult-to-find information that helps propel their work forward.
SciFinder-n supports
Synthesis Reactions – Millions of fully described step-by-step reactions with full details (including those translated into English from other languages) are available to review, enabling scientists to discover all available published methods for making nanomaterials and polymers.
Predictive Retrosynthesis – Discover how to make a compound or molecule that does not yet exist; using the very latest in AI and Computer Aided Synthesis Design, SciFinder-n can show you all theoretically possible pathways to synthesising your compound of interest.
Patents – Now with patent applications along with granted patents, SciFinder-n has indexed patents from more than 63 patent offices across 100 years, allowing you to not only look for prior art and check the novelty of your invention, but our indexed patents allow you to go instantly where the relevant chemistry is mentioned in the patent (even if the patent is not in English). Save time by searching all of the world’s patents in one place, with indexation specifically for chemistry.
Easier Compound Family Searching – Want to know all of the alloys containing a certain mixture of elements and be able to review all of them simultaneously? SciFinder-n allows you to search across common substances and families easily, ensuring you can find exactly what you’re looking for but also closely related alloys, polymers and substances.
Formulations Indexing – Want to know where a particular compound, material or substance has been used in a formulation (e.g. cosmetics, pharmaceutical, agrochemical etc.)? With SciFinder-n you can now search for where these materials are being used in actual formulations.
More than 9 Billion Physical, Chemical and Biological Properties – SciFinder-n is the world’s largest database for the physical, chemical and biological properties of compounds that have been experimentally reported. Included with this is the spectra (MS, UV-Vis, NMR, FTIR etc) of these compounds along with the regulatory restrictions on these compounds.
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About the event
SciFinder-n is a database and application that provides integrated access to comprehensive and authoritative sources of substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences.
This training will provide you with the knowledge and skills to use this tool to support your research, and focus on new features to SciFinder-n. Andrew McKay from the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) will facilitate the training, in collaboration with the library’s Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment Liaison Librarians.
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