SciFinder(R) Enhancements Include Chemical Experimental Procedures to Expedite Scientific Research

COLUMBUS, Ohio, December 13, 2010 - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's leading provider of
chemical information, today announced new time-saving advancements and
usability improvements to SciFinder, its premier research and discovery tool.
The enhancements will accelerate researchers' workflow and are especially
valuable for synthetic chemists and other researchers who are engaged in lab
preparations and synthesis planning.

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In addition to presenting cleaner, more streamlined layouts, CAS chemists
incorporated new features that enable researchers to

    - View experimental procedures in context with a reaction.
      Access experimental procedures from six American Chemical Society
      journals and patents from USPTO, EPO, and WIPO patents -- all released
      between 2005 and 2009. Examine, sort, and analyze experimental
      procedures for applicability to synthetic research needs.

    - Search structures using SMILES and InChI strings. Enter
      SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) or InChI
      (International Chemical Identifier) text strings into SciFinder's
      drawing editor to conveniently generate structures.

    - Rank reactions by relevance. Bring the most relevant
      reactions to the top of your answer set, improving retrieval quality
      and speed.

"SciFinder has the most thorough, accurate, and largest combined
collection of patent and journal reaction procedures available in the world,"
said Christine McCue, vice president of marketing, CAS. "This is part of our
ongoing commitment to leadership in publicly disclosed chemical information."

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www.cas.org/products/scifindr/index.html

About SciFinder

SciFinder(R) is the first choice of scientists conducting research in
chemistry and related fields. It has been developed by CAS, an organization
with more than 100 years of experience in chemical indexing and curation. CAS
scientists and colleagues around the world curate, quality-control, and
optimize chemical information for intuitive retrieval. Globally, top Fortune
500 corporations, more than 1,700 universities, and major government agencies
depend on SciFinder for the comprehensive, current, reliable information they
need to enable scientific discovery. The award-winning application offers
access to the CAS REGISTRY(SM) database, known as the gold standard of
chemical substance collections. In addition, SciFinder retrieves more
references than any other scientific search service, including relevant
patent documents, journal article information, and reliable web sources.
Finally, SciFinder is secure; its confidential research results are
guaranteed and protected by CAS security systems.

About CAS

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical
Society, is the world's authority for chemical information. Our databases are
curated and quality-controlled by CAS scientists, and recognized by chemical
and pharmaceutical companies, universities, government organizations, and
patent offices around the world as authoritative. By combining these
databases with advanced search and analysis technologies (SciFinder(R),
STN(R), and Science IP(R) products and services), CAS delivers the most
current, complete, and cross-linked secure digital information environment
for scientific discovery. Learn more at www.cas.org.

Bob Sadowski, APR, +1-614-447-3661, cas-pr at CAS.org