CAS SciFinder enhancements

We know being aware of upcoming enhancements to CAS SciFinder is important to you. To help ensure you are prepared to handle questions you may receive from your users when changes occur, we will provide a preview version of the latest release notes below.

Expect a new set of notes to be posted approximately one week prior to each release, which are scheduled every four weeks. Be aware that there may be an occasional change not included in this preview since they are being prepared before the release is final.

As always, final release notes will be added to the What’s New? section in the CAS SciFinder solution in conjunction with the actual release.

We know being aware of upcoming enhancements to CAS SciFinder is important to you. To help ensure you are prepared to handle questions you may receive from your users when changes occur, we will provide a preview version of the latest release notes below.

Expect a new set of notes to be posted approximately one week prior to each release, which are scheduled every four weeks. Be aware that there may be an occasional change not included in this preview since they are being prepared before the release is final.

As always, final release notes will be added to the What’s New? section in the CAS SciFinder solution in conjunction with the actual release.

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Preview of CAS SciFinder Release June 3, 2024 (Build 24-06)

Features:

Projects Workflow Expansion

Projects in CAS SciFinder are being enhanced with the new ability to download the project. This enhancement will aid users in collaborating and further sharing information, in managing a list of references to create citations, and utilizing findings to create a report.

From a project, a new download option is presented for both references and substances.

Downloads page access screenshot
On the references tab, the download menu includes the following export formats: RIS, XLSX, PDF, TXT, and RTF. 

 

Previously downloaded materials screenshot
On the substances tab, the download menu includes the following export formats: XLSX, PDF, RTF, and SDF. 

 

Screenshot of a new accordion presented with indexed reactions sorted by yield

In addition, UI updates were made to make it easier for users to add references and substances to projects.

On the reference result page, a new icon is presented on each result to quickly add a specific reference to projects.

SciFinder screen capture of references

Download Enhancement: Include New Experimental Properties

Substance detail downloads have been updated to include expanded experimental properties.

Search enhancement: Improved handling of reference abstract and bibliographic queries

Reference searching has been improved to recognize queries containing reference abstract or reference bibliographic text, improve the performance of these queries, and to return less noisy results.