Three Additional Volumes Covering a Wide Spectrum of Organic Reactions Available in Upgraded Science of Synthesis

Stuttgart - Thieme Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of Science of Synthesis Version 3.9, a comprehensive online resource that provides highly evaluated chemical information from leading experts in the field. This critical treatment of synthetic chemistry is one of the most authoritative, in-depth information resources available on synthetic methodology and contains comprehensive coverage of the entire field of organic chemistry from all published and readily available sources from the early 1800s until the present.

This upgraded version means that 45 out of the 48 printed volumes are now available online. Over 14,000 new reactions and an additional 1,545 experimental procedures have been added to this release. There are currently a total of 252,000 reactions and more than 32,000 experimental procedures available.

Peroxides have been covered in Volume 38 (Berkessel/Shinkai) in Category 5 (Compounds with One Saturated Carbon—Heteroatom Bond). Additions to Category 6 (Compounds with All-Carbon Functions) consist of: Monocyclic Arenes, Quasiarenes, and Annulenes, Aromatic Ring Assemblies, Polycyclic Aromatic, Hydrocarbons, and Conjugated Polyenes, covered in Volume 45 (Siegel/Tobe/Shinkai); and 1,3-Dienes, covered in Volume 46 (Trost/Rowal/Kozmin).

“We are very pleased to be adding three additional volumes in this release covering a wide spectrum of organic reactions. For example, peroxides play an important role both in chemistry research and in industrial production processes; aromatic compounds are central to the development of dyestuffs, pharmaceuticals, and plastics; and 1,3-dienes are considered to be an important class of compounds in organometallic chemistry and organic synthesis,” says Dr. M. Fiona Shortt de Hernandez, Managing Editor of Science of Synthesis.

Developed in cooperation with InfoChem, Science of Synthesis possesses a user-friendly search function that allows substructure, exact structure, reaction, combined keyword, and full-text searches. Within the application, a structure search is quick and easy since users have the ability to choose between multiple structure drawing tools (ISIS Draw, Java Applet, and ChemDraw). Its compatibility with SFX assists librarians in navigating literature requests of Science of Synthesis users to resources and services relevant to their search queries. Science of Synthesis Version 3.9  is fully compatible with both Windows and Macintosh and supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari browsers.

About the Editorial Board

Science of Synthesis has been developed under the guidance of an international Editorial Board. The extensive knowledge and experience of the Editorial Board enable Thieme Chemistry to develop a system that ensures both the print and electronic versions of Science of Synthesis will continue to remain at the heart of the fully integrated laboratory of the present and future. The Editorial Board responsible for the concept and content of Science of Synthesis consists of: Professor Ryoji Noyori, Nobel laureate, Nagoya University; Professor Barry M. Trost, Stanford University; Professor Daniel Bellus, Speedel Pharma Inc., Basel; Professor Eric N. Jacobsen, Harvard University; Professor Steve V. Ley, University of Cambridge; Professor Manfred Regitz, Universitaet Kaiserslautern; Professor Paul J. Reider, Princeton University; Professor Ernst Schaumann, Institut für Organische Chemie der TU, Clausthal; Dr. Ichiro Shinkai, Tokyo; and Professor E. Jim Thomas, Victoria University of Manchester.

About InfoChem

InfoChem GmbH (www.infochem.de), based in Munich, Germany, is a market leader in structure and reaction handling and retrieval. Founded in 1989, InfoChem focuses on the production and marketing of new chemical information products, including structural and reaction databases, and the development of software tools required for these applications. The main software tools provided are the InfoChem Fast Search Engine (ICFSE), the InfoChem Chemistry Cartridge for Oracle (ICCARTRIDGE), and the widely used InfoChem reaction classification algorithm CLASSIFY. Springer (Heidelberg) has held a majority interest in InfoChem since 1991.

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