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Home   •   Support  •  SciFinder  •  Strategies  •  Searching for Reaction Mechanisms
Searching for Reaction Mechanisms
Introduction

This section describes how to locate general reaction information based on reaction mechanism using Explore by Research Topic.

When to use

Use reaction mechanism searching when you want to locate reactions for any type of chemical compound, without regard to specific reactants or products.

Example

Locate Diels-Alder and retro-Diels-Alder reactions involving cyclopentene.

How to Follow these steps to locate relevant reaction information.
Step

Do this

1 From the New Task dialog box, click Explore .
2 From the Explore dialog box, click Research Topic .
3

From the Explore by Research Topic dialog box appears. In the entry box, type keywords of interest. Click OK.

Tip: Include synonyms in parentheses after the associated keyword.

4

The Topic Candidates dialog box appears. Select the reference set of interest. Click Get References.

5

The reference viewer appears.

When you want to see

Click

Reference detail, including:

  • Abstract
  • Indexing
  • Patent family information
  • Citation

 

Electronic full text
  • Trends in the answer set (Analyze)
  • A smaller set of more precisely defined references (Refine)

Related information such as:

  • References cited in a paper
  • Papers citing another
  • Substances indexed in a paper (SciFinder subscription users only)
  • Reactions indexed in a paper (SciFinder subscription users only)
Links to reaction detail SciFinder subscription users may link directly to reactions cited in the papers.
Updated 7/3/2007 12:14:02 PM
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