American Chemical Society
Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques
— June 1997 —
Chemical Substance Searching Awareness:
Using Graphic Structures
Why do structure searching?
- Locate substances not findable using nomenclature terms.
- Locate substances when nomenclature terms cannot readily be identified.
- Locate substance whose MF is common to many substances.
- Search explicitly for specific substances.
- Locate all substances that contain a specified substructure.