Example Search Strategies in Chemical Abstracts

Preparation of a Chemical Compound

Example 1: inhibition, neuraminic acid and glycosides

Review Articles

Example 2: Reviews on the use of metallocene catalysts

Search Tips:

• Use truncation to find all variations on the keywords metallocene and catalyst.
• Use the keyword review* to limit your search to review articles

Search with Molecular Formula and Keyword

Example 3: glycosides and Formula C18H34O

Search Tips:

• If you aren't sure of the Chemical Abstracts name for your compound, search by molecular formula and additional keywords to focus your search results.
• Using truncation with molecular formulas will expand your search results.
• In this example, you will find all compounds with C18H34Ox where x is any number of Oxygens.