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Home   •   Support and Training  •  SciFinder  •  Strategies  •  Searching for Synthetic Pathways Overview
Searching for Synthetic Pathways Overview
Introduction This section gives an overview of strategies to find synthetic pathways.
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With SciFinder, you can locate synthetic pathways matching:

  • A full reaction sequence
  • Chemical structures of reacting entities or products
  • Terms describing functional groups in the reaction participants
  • Keywords describing the reaction
Decision table

SciFinder offers a number of pathways to locate reaction information.

When you want

For these reactions

And you know

Use this SciFinder strategy

Precise matches Organic
  • Structures on both sides of the reaction arrow
  • Reactant structure(s) only
Full reaction
Organic, inorganic, biochemical Product structure
  • Full reaction
  • Preparation searching
General matches Organic Names of functional groups of
reaction participants on either/both
sides of the reaction arrow
Functional group searching
Very general matches Organic, inorganic, biochemical Name of the reaction mechanism Reaction mechanism searching
Updated: 10/5/2009 10:04:17 AM
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