| Introduction |
This section gives an overview of strategies to find synthetic pathways. |
| Preview |
With SciFinder, you can locate synthetic pathways matching:
- A full reaction sequence
- Chemical structures of reacting entities or products
- Terms describing functional groups in the reaction participants
- Keywords describing the reaction
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| Decision table |
SciFinder offers a number of pathways to locate reaction information.
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| When you want |
For these reactions |
And you know |
Use this SciFinder strategy |
| Precise matches |
Organic |
Structures on both sides of the reaction arrow
Reactant structure(s) only |
Full reaction |
| Organic, inorganic, biochemical |
Product structure |
Full reaction
Preparation searching |
| General matches |
Organic |
Names of functional groups of reaction participants on either/both sides of the reaction arrow |
Functional group searching |
| Very general matches |
Organic, inorganic, biochemical |
Name of the reaction mechanism |
Reaction mechanism searching | |
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