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CambridgeSoft Delivers
Fully Searchable Site With ChemOffice WebServer
Chicago, IL - August 27, 2001 - Organic Syntheses,
a compendium of detailed experimental methods in a standard
format for the synthesis of organic compounds, is now available
on the World Wide Web at http://www.orgsyn.org/. The Organic Syntheses
(OS) editorial board provided financing for Data Trace Publishing
Company (http://www.datatrace.com/)
to digitize the printed volumes and for CambridgeSoft to create
a web site which is fully searchable by structure, substructure,
free text, and various OS indexes.
In some 77 annual volumes and 9 collective volumes
published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., OS has compiled
independently checked selected procedures and new reactions
which, if carefully followed, permit the advanced research
student or professional chemist skilled in the field to prepare
compounds of research utility.
The first step for prospective users of the
OS web site is to follow a link to the "System Requirements
and Plugin Download" page. This page explains which versions
of the Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers are
supported on Macintosh and Windows operating systems. It also
provides information about how to obtain the ChemDraw plugin
needed to submit and view chemical structures.
At the search page, the user can enter a structural
query, a text-only query, or one which specifies both structure
and text. Text fields include molecular formula, chemical
name, CAS Registry Number, words in the title, the author's
name, and which collective and annual volumes to search. The
first text box permits enormously flexible and powerful full
text searching, including derivative forms of words and proximity
searches (one word near another, ranked by proximity of the
words). Each text field has a help button that activates on-line
help explaining how to use the field and how best to formulate
queries.
At the top of the search page, a Browse Reactions
button leads to the OS Reaction Guide edited by Dennis Liotta
and Mark Volmer. The reactions are listed by type, with each
type linking to subheadings and eventually to specific reactions.
The reactions in the OS web site reproduce the
full monographs in the printed OS volumes, including text,
structures, and illustrations. Highlighted compounds are linked
to other pages in the database where they appear. The power
of structural searching and hyperlinked text becomes apparent
as one navigates thousands of printed pages, spanning years
of published work, with a few clicks of the mouse.
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