Reaxys is a web-based tool for the
retrieval of chemistry information and data from published literature, including journals and patents. The information includes chemical compounds, chemical reactions, chemical properties, related bibliographic data, substance data with synthesis planning information, as well as experimental procedures from selected journals and patents. It is licensed by
Elsevier
Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', th ...
.
Reaxys was launched in 2009 as the successor to the CrossFire databases. It was developed to provide research chemists with access to current and historical, relevant, organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry information, from reliable sources via an easy-to-use interface.
Scope and access
One of the primary goals of Reaxys is to provide research chemists with access to experimentally measured data – reactions, physical, chemical or pharmacological – in one universal and factual platform. Content covers organic, medicinal, synthetic, agro, fine, catalyst, inorganic and process chemistry and provides information on structures, reactions, and citations. Additional features include a synthesis planner and access to commercial availability information. There have been regular releases and enhancements to Reaxys since it was first launched, including similarity searching.
Reaxys provides links to
Scopus
Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-l ...
for all matching articles and interoperability with
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a website which provides access to a large bibliographic database of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier. It hosts over 18 million pieces of content from more than 4,000 academic journals and 30,0 ...
. Access to the database is subject to an annual license agreement.
Core data
The content covers more than 200 years of chemistry and has been abstracted from several thousands of journal titles, books and patents.
Today the data is drawn from selected journals (400 titles) and chemistry patents, and the excerption process for each reaction or substance data included needs to meet three conditions:
# It has a chemical structure
# It is supported by an experimental fact (property, preparation, reaction)
# It has a credible citation
Journals covered include ''Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis'', ''Journal of American Chemical Society'', ''Journal of Organometallic Chemistry'', ''Synlett'' and ''Tetrahedron''.
Patents in Reaxys come from the International Patent Classes:
* C07 Organic Chemistry
* A61K and secondary IPC C07
edicinal, Dental, Cosmetic Preparations
* A01N
* C09B Dyes
See also
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Beilstein database
The Beilstein database is the largest database in the field of organic chemistry, in which compounds are uniquely identified by their Beilstein Registry Number. The database covers the scientific literature from 1771 to the present and contains ex ...
References
External links
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Chemical databases
Bibliographic databases and indexes