Chemical Abstracts on CD-ROM Tutorial
Browsable Fields in Chemical Abstracts

Chemical Abstracts on CD-ROM provides a lot of browsable fields.
WORD (default) includes title and index field keywords
LANGUAGE language of original article (All abstracts are in English)
AUTHOR last name first
UPDATE month and year entered into the database
YEAR year of publication
CAS RN Chemical Abstracts Registry Number
ORGANIZATION university, company, institute, etc.
PATENT NUMBER PCT patent application number
COMPOUND chemical compound name using CAS nomenclature
GENERAL SUBJECT subject headings from the CA General Subject Index
DOCUMENT TYPE journal, conference, report, book, dissertation, patent, review
FORMULA molecular formula using Hill System, i.e. C25H10Br4O5, ClSn
JOURNAL abbreviated journal title
CA SECTION the 80 subject sections of Chemical Abstracts
CAN Chemical Abstracts Accession Number volume and abstract number i.e. 123:100121
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