{"id":864,"date":"2012-09-13T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=864"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:28:57","slug":"uncommon-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/uncommon-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/09\/sciFinder.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1138\" title=\"sciFinder\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/09\/sciFinder.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a>I talked about\u00a0<a title=\"Not the scary kind of spider\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/2012\/08\/01\/not-the-scary-kind-of-spider\/\">ChemSpider<\/a>\u00a0in a previous post but if you are serious about finding information on substances there is a chemistry database\u00a0like no other: <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.library.mcgill.ca\/login?url=https:\/\/scifinder.cas.org\/\">SciFinder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just last year Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, announced that the database was moving from the software version to the web. Since then there have been a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cas.org\/products\/scifinder\/whats-new-in-scifinder\">changes to SciFinder<\/a>, along with a\u00a0newly redesigned\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cas.org\/\">CAS website<\/a>. For example, there are great interactive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cas.org\/training\/scifinder\">SciFinder training<\/a>\u00a0videos for all aspects of substance and reaction searches that point out new features.<\/p>\n<p>What sets Scifinder apart is not just the chemical literature, with articles, patents, dissertations, etc., going back over 100 years, it is how they bring together a wealth of information on reactions, structures, properties, and commercial sources, and link it all to substances with unique identifiers, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cas.org\/content\/chemical-substances\/faqs\">CAS Registry Numbers<\/a>. That means that if you come across the name of a compound in an article that you do not recognize you can use the Explore Substances search in SciFinder and find out just what it is.<\/p>\n<p>McGill students, faculty, and staff can now benefit from unlimited access to SciFinder\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.library.mcgill.ca\/login?url=https:\/\/scifinder.cas.org\/registration\/index.html?corpKey=19016C8E-86F3-50AB-2E03-2E708A239EC4\">registration is required<\/a>)\u00a0so let me know it works for you.<\/p>\n<p>CAS does have a free search engine for substances of general interest if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonchemistry.org\/\">Common Chemistry<\/a> is more your thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked about\u00a0ChemSpider\u00a0in a previous post but if you are serious about finding information on substances there is a chemistry database\u00a0like no other: SciFinder. Just last year Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, announced that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/uncommon-chemistry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}