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Home   •   Our Expertise  •  CAS Databases  •  CAS Database Content at a Glance
CAS Database Content at a Glance

CAS maintains counts of its database records to reflect their scope of coverage and to ensure that researchers have confidence in their comprehensiveness.


CAplus
Patent and journal references from many scientific disciplines
CAS REGISTRY
Substance information
 
CASREACT
Chemical synthesis information
CHEMLIST
Regulated chemicals information
CHEMCATS
Commercially available substances  
Number of
references
  • >35 million records

How do we count


  • >64 million organic and inorganic substances
  • >63 million sequences (view latest numbers)

How do we count

  • >52.7 million reactions (>38.7 million single- and multi-step reactions and >14 million synthetic preparations)

How do we count

  • >293,000 inventoried or regulated chemicals

How do we count

  • >61 million commercially available products from
    • >1,222 chemical catalogs
    • 1,098 suppliers
    • >19 million unique CAS Registry Numbers

How do we count

Content

Chemistry and chemistry-related articles covering topics such as

  • Proteomics
  • Genomics
  • Biochemistry
  • Biochemical genetics
  • Organic
  • Macromolecular
  • Applied
  • Physical, inorganic, analytical

Information about the many different types of substances, including

  • Synonyms
  • Molecular formulas  
  • Ring analysis data
  • Structure diagrams
  • Experimental and predicted property data
  • Literature references

Reaction information consisting of

  • Structure diagrams for reactants and products
  • CAS Registry Numbers for all reactants, products, reagents, solvents, and catalysts
  • Detailed reaction conditions

Chemical substances that are regulated in key markets across the globe:

  • Chemical names
  • Synonyms
  • Regulatory lists
  • Chemical inventory status

Information about commercially available chemicals and their suppliers:

  • CAS Registry Number 
  • Supplier information
  • Quantities
  • Prices
Coverage
  • Early 1800s to present 
  • More than 10,000 scientific journals worldwide   (see CASSI search tool for all titles ever
    covered)

  • More than 1,500 key chemical journals
  • Patents from 62 patent authorities (see CAS Coverage of Patents)
  • Conference proceedings
  • Technical reports
  • Books
  • Dissertations
  • Reviews
  • Meeting abstracts
  • Electronic-only journals
  • Web preprints
  • Substances from journal articles, patents, chemical catalogs, and reputable web sources from the early 1800s to present  
  • GenBank sequences
  • Organic substances as well as
    - Alloys
    - Coordination  compounds
    - Minerals
    - Mixtures
    - Polymers
    - Salts
    - Sequences
    - Organo-
      metallics
    - Proteins
    - Inorganic substances
  • 1840 to present
  • Reactions from journals, patents, and dissertations, as well as from evaluated reference works
  • Originally from data in the 1985 TSCA inventory and supplements
  • U.S. Government Federal Register 1778-1987
  • Thirteen national inventories
  • State lists

(view lists)

  • >1,098 suppliers of commercial chemicals worldwide
  • >1,222 chemical catalogs
Update Frequency 4,500 references daily 12,000 new substances added daily 30,000-50,000 single- and multi-step reactions added weekly Updated weekly Weekly with new catalog information


See also

  • CAS Databases Home
Updated: 1/10/2012 12:40:12 PM
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