CAS SciFinder®

Redefining scientific research

CAS SciFinder accelerates scientific discovery by combining trusted scientific content with advanced AI, enabling researchers to uncover insights faster and innovate with confidence.​

These exciting new capabilities revolutionize the search experience, integrate IP to complement the modern research workflow, and spur new possibilities for innovation using retrosynthesis.

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Want to learn why these upgrades will make your R&D team smarter, faster, and more strategic? Read this independent analysis from a leader in technology about why CAS SciFinder is the frontrunner of scientific information innovation.

IP Connections

Integrated patent insights

IP Connections makes prior art discovery easier than ever in CAS SciFinder with its integrated, AI-driven, proprietary search engine. New visualizations provide unprecedented support for assessing the research landscape, along with additional critical patent content like patent status, speeding up innovation in the existing research workflow.

Watch the webinar introducing IP Connections

SearchSense

Intuitive, AI-interpreted natural language search

Use natural language to ask complex scientific questions with SearchSense in CAS SciFinder. This first-of-its-kind scientific Q&A system provides users accurate, fact-based answers with increasingly personalized results based on AI learnings.

Watch the SearchSense webinar

Improved, best-in-class reaction discovery

AI-interpreted reaction queries now identify reaction protocols and bring critical information to the forefront, making the world's largest reaction database more accessible.

Retrosynthesis

Real-time retrosynthesis planning

In a world’s first for retrosynthesis planning tools, users will experience interactive, real-time predictive retrosynthesis for seamless exploration of synthetic pathways, accelerating innovation to previously unattainable levels.​

Watch the webinar highlighting the new retrosynthesis experience in CAS SciFinder

SearchSense Summarization

Accurate summarization powered by scientist-trained AI

SearchSense in CAS SciFinder delivers tailored summaries of reference result sets that are traceable to the original literature. These summaries are based on AI models trained by domain experts to be scientifically accurate, helping users get relevant information faster than ever.

See a more detailed walkthrough of search summarization in CAS SciFinder

Other resources

Retrosynthesis and Search Summarization Webinar (October)

See how science-smart AI is bringing search result summarization to CAS SciFinder and experience the next evolution of the solution’s retrosynthesis tool.

SearchSense Webinar (September)

Get more information about natural language search in CAS SciFinder, including the introduction of instant, fact-based answers and the use of AI to interpret complex queries to return more relevant results.

IP Connections Webinar (August)

See a walkthrough of new IP-related information, capabilities, and visualizations in CAS SciFinder that are designed to speed innovation in your existing research workflow.