CAS

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, is the world’s authority for chemical information. CAS is the only organization in the world whose objective is to find, collect and organize all publicly disclosed substance information, creating the world’s most valuable collection of content that is vital to innovation worldwide.Scientific researchers, patent professionals and business leaders around the world rely on a suite of research solutions from CAS that enables discovery and facilitates workflows to fuel tomorrow’s innovation.

CAS solutions are:

• SciFinder, a research discovery application tool.It provides unlimited access to the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences. SciFinder is an easy end-user search tool to explore references, structures and reactions covering all chemistry. You can explore references from 10,000+ scientific journals from 185 countries and patents from 63 authorities, chemical substances i.e. by name, structure and molecular formulae. Researchers using SciFinder have access to the most timely and comprehensive chemical databases, including CAS REGISTRY^SM, the “gold standard” for substance information.
• PatentPak, a robust workflow solution designed to radically reduce time spent acquiring and searching through multiple patents to find vital chemistry. PatentPak allows researchers to instantly access full-text patents from major patent offices globally, rapidly find specific locations of chemical information within the patents and find equivalent patents in familiar languages with patent family connections. PatentPak is available in SciFinder.

• MethodsNow, a one-of-a-kind solution to search and compare the largest collection of scientific methods . MethodsNow features step-by-step instructions for analytical and synthetic methods in areas like pharmacology, HPLC, food analysis, natural product isolation analysis and water analysis. It saves your time due to easy access to method details from millions of disclosed procedures. The synthetical part of MethodsNow are available in SciFinder, while analytical one has separate interface.

• ChemZent, a new solution available in SciFinder, provides academic, commercial and government organizations with access to the first and only English-searchable version of Chemisches Zentralblatt, the oldest journal of chemistry abstracts, covering the literature from 1830-1969.