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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.

Structure Search Retrieval: Review & Comparison

Structure Search Strategy Overview: Review

Sample Search

Running the Search in the Full File

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