SciFinder enhancements - November 2024

This month’s CAS SciFinder® release features retrosynthesis planning and search intent detection improvements.

“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 this month’s release, click to visit the “What’s New?” section of 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?