SciFinder is the premiere chemistry bibliographic and reference research tool. SciFinder can be searched by research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, chemical reaction, and/or author's name. In addition, SciFinder provides access to:
The SciFinder Substructure Module allows a researcher to draw a structure and search it as a substructure of a more complicated one. In this module one can draw variables and R-groups, stereo bonds, prohibit substitution and ring fusion at particular nodes and bonds, and refine by property data.
SciFinder also provides access to the MEDLINE database (1958+), journal tables of contents, and citation linking.
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From 1995, the American Chemical Society began translating certain foreign-language journals.