SciFinder enhancements – October 2025

AI-powered summarization and real-time retrosynthesis are now live in CAS SciFinder.The latest release also includes additional enhancements to the recently released IP Connections.

Below are a few highlights of these new capabilities, but for more detailed information, log in to CAS SciFinder today.  

AI-powered result summaries

The science-smart AI in SearchSense now provides summaries to give you a quick overview of your reference search results. This ensures you have high-level overviews and detailed information, all with included links to the relevant scientific literature for a more targeted review. 

These summaries, which are trained to focus on scientific accuracy and traceable citations, are generated for optimized queries with at least five reference results in the answer set. You will see these summaries on both the All and References results pages.

Near-instantaneous retrosynthesis

Using AI for more intelligent natural language query interpretation, query phrasing will now be considered more routinely (e.g., searching “historical medical practices” will now return results based on ‘historical’ and ‘medical’ and ‘practices’ as opposed to treating them as three independent concepts). This will provide much more relevant results without added complexity in query creation (such as Boolean search). 

More IP Connections enhancements

You will also experience new capabilities leveraging our recent IP Connections launch. This month, we have added the following:

• Sort indexed substances by claim location – Focus on the most important substances from the patent based on your prioritization.
• Download more reference results – When exporting references using the Basic Identifiers or Result Summary templates, your download can now contain the first 500 reference results.
• Perform download, add to Project, or save functions with Prior Art Discovery results – This will enable you to share results with colleagues, combine with other answer sets, or store the results for further analysis.
• Interact more easily with Prior Art Analysis search history entries – The addition of the patent number makes it easier to understand which reference was submitted for Prior Art Analysis.
• Clearly understand search status for Prior Art Discovery searches – You will now be able to easily find the status of any successful submission.

For a full overview, visit the “What’s New?” section in CAS SciFinder.

Reaxys

Users need to use a personal sign in rather than an institutional sign in to be able to export search results e.g. to Endnote. 

For more information about exporting in Reaxys, please see How do I export results?