Reaction databases: The contents and focus

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Marudai Balasubramanian, marudai.balasubramanian@pfizer.com, Research Informatics, Pfizer, 2800 plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
In recent years, the electronic age has created an enormous increase in the production of fewer large and comprehensive reaction databaes. The introduction of client-server-based reaction databases access systems certainly attracted the greater number of end users. The contents, coverage period, abstracting guidelines, and sources of data are the few reasons why chemists need multiple reaction databses for complete information. Reaction searching is incomplete if conducted with only one reaction database. The present work will provide insight in to the searches conducted on synthetic transformation, and author search in specialized smaller and comprehensive reaction databases. The hit answers are compared and overall results indicate that indeed these reaction databases are complementary to each other.