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Identifies articles, patents, conferences, books and dissertations in chemistry and medicine. Search by substance name, structure, substructure, reaction, CAS registry number, molecular formula, organization, research topic and author. Searches Chemical Abstracts, Medline and ChemZent databases simultaneously. Includes PatentPak, MethodsNow and Retrosynthesis Plan. CAS Formulus, and CAS Analytical Methods have recently been added and can be found under the three dot menu on the upper left. A separate registration is required before the first use. See About SciFinder for more detail. To use off campus, use VPN..

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Reaxys (2017 version) This link opens in a new window
Identifies chemical compound properties, structures, and reactions with references to journal and patent literature of chemistry. The data originates from the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry, the Beilstein Handbuch der organischen Chemie and a Patent Chemistry database. To learn more, see About Reaxys.
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Scopus is the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, covering research topics across all scientific and technical disciplines, ranging from medicine and social sciences to arts and humanities.
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PubMed This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles in clinical and basic biomedical research as well as in psychology, many with links to full text.
PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Includes access to molecular and bioinformatic databases from the NCBI system (previous Entrez). Automatically expands (explodes) subject headings. Truncation turns off this automatic expansion of the hierarchical subject headings.
American Chemical Society Journals This link opens in a new window
Full text of American Chemical Society journals.
Dimensions This link opens in a new window
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Research Rabbit
AI Tool to find more papers from some good ones. See videos and this
review for more.
Compare Chemistry Databases
Review strengths and weaknesses of core chemistry database based on Sue's knowledge and experience.

Compound Synthesis Resources

SynArchive.com
Browse a growing database of organic syntheses with clear, precise and unambiguous sequence of reactions.
Organic Syntheses Online
Tried and true preparation methods.
Organic Reactions (1942 - Present)
Review articles on reaction methods.
Mayr's Database of Reactivity Parameters
Database of quantitative reactivity parameters for nucleophiles and electrophiles

Substance Searching using Reaxys
Learn how to find boiling points and NMR data for substance structures with this step by step tutorial.
Reaction Searching Using Reaxys
Step by step tutorial on how to search Reaxys for preparation methods.

ChemDraw introduces direct link to SciFinder (Video)
Shows how you can draw a structure and go directly to SciFinder with it.
SciFinder Need to Know Reaction Searching
Videos on using SciFinder to do reaction searching including using the Synthesis Planner.
Synthesis Reviews
For EndNote Library - Free databases of ~36,000 English language review articles (from journals and books) of interest to synthetic organic chemists. 1970 - 2015 Sponsored by Georg Thieme Verlag. More recent updates are available also.
Not Voodoo
Practical information about organic synthesis shared by experienced practitioners to give novices a head start.
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry
Many useful resources are linked from the web page of the Organic Chemistry Division.

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CHEM 435 - Organic Reactions

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