CHEM 335: Quantum Mechanics & Spectroscopy (Avila-Bront): SciFinder-n

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• All: The broadest search.  Finds substances, reactions, references, and suppliers.
• Substances: Search by substance name, CAS registry number, patent number, etc.
• Reactions: Search by substance name, CAS registry number, patent number, or chemical structure that identifies a substance that participates in the reaction.
• References: use this option to search for articles.
• Suppliers: Search for suppliers by substance name, CAS registry number, or chemical structure.
• Sequences: Search by protein/nucleotide string
• Retrosynthesis:  Performs a retrosynthetic analysis on a drawn or imported target structure.

• Document Type: select "Journal" to only see journal articles
• Substance Role: displays the references that describe the searched substance(s) in that role
• Language: displays references in the selected languages
• Publication Year: limits the results to a specific year, or range of years
• Author: limits by authors name - discover scholars who publish a lot about the topic
• Organization: limits by an organization
• Publication Name:  displays the results from within a specific publication, such as a specific journal
• Concept: these are terms related to your keyword search.  You can limit your results to specific "concepts" to narrow the focus of your search.
• CAS Solutions: displays results using CAS' Analytical Methods.
• Formulation Purpose: appears where there is formulation content in the currently displayed result set.
• Database: limit by CAplus or MEDLINE
• CA Section: data in Chemical Abstracts is categorized into 80 different categories.  This option allows you to limit results by one ore more of those categories.
• Search Within Results: narrow your original search by adding in more keywords

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