Introduction

Welcome to SciFinder Strategies! 

SciFinder Strategies provide instructional strategies to make your exploration with SciFinder even more productive.

Contents

SciFinder Strategies showcase strategies in:

• Small-molecule searching
• Synthetic chemistry
• Polymer chemistry

Small-molecule searching

SciFinder accesses the CAS REGISTRY^SM of organic and inorganic substances - a critical resource for identifying small molecules of interest. Consult the Substructure Searching Overview to get a high-level view of SciFinder's substructure precision tools:

• Controlling Substitution
• Controlling Ring Formation
• Decision Chart

Synthetic chemistry

SciFinder provides a number of routes to synthetic information contained in the CASREACT and CAplus^SM databases. Consult the Synthetic Pathways Searching Overview to choose the best pathway to the synthetic information you need:

• Full reaction searching for novel organic structural transformations
• Searching for preparations
• Functional group searching
• Searching for reaction mechanisms

Polymer chemistry

The largest and most current collection of documents about polymers is accessible through SciFinder! Consult the Polymer Search Overview to identify the access route best suited to your information needs:

• Polymer formula searching
  • Polymer formula formatting
• Polymer structure searching
• Polymer class searching

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