Getting the Most Out of SciFinder-n: Introduction

New to SciFinderⁿ?

If this is your first time accessing SciFinderⁿ, click here to create a free personal account. Once your account is activated, you must log into SciFinderⁿ through the link on the UH Mānoa Library's A-Z databases page to ensure that you are an authorized UH Mānoa user. Please bookmark the page for easy access.

Accessing the database through the UHM link allows users to find full text references through the UHM library.

Support for Scifinder was discontinued at the end of 2022. Existing Scifinder users can access SciFindern with the same username and password. You can learn about some of the new functionalities in this webinar from CAS.

What’s new in SciFindern?

• Added tools
  • PatentPak - An interactive patent chemistry viewer. See this video for more information.
  • Retrosynthesis Planning - Computer aided synthetic design feature that can generate a full retrosynthetic analysis of all known synthetic routes for any known molecule. See this training page for more details.
  • MethodsNow  - access step-by-step procedures and protocols form patents and journals. See this training page for more information.
  • Citation Map - visualize cited and citing references
• More datasets, including more 1H NMR and UV/vis spectra
• Search Capabilities
  • Combine keyword and structure searching
  • Search with boolean operators
  • Search concurrently in multiple browser tabs

Why use SciFinderⁿ?

With SciFinderⁿ you have access to the most trusted authoritative chemical substance resource, CAS Registry. Combining a global network of scientists  who extract, annotate, and verify key scientific insights with the most science-aware relevance engine creates a powerful tool to decrease search time and increase relevant results.

Find opportunities for innovation with industry-leading patent searching and discover novel connections in one of the largest collections of scientific journal records with value-added indexing and powerful filters.

Minimize time planning reactions and maximize time experimenting with full retrosynthetic analysis powered by CAS reactions.

Who should use SciFinderⁿ?

SciFindern is a critical information resource for chemists as well as non-chemists who research in chemistry-adjacent fields including biology, medicine, engineering, environmental science, and more.

What is SciFinderⁿ?

SciFinderⁿ (or SciFinder-n), a database of chemical and bibliographic information, is an important research tool produced by the Chemical Abstract System (CAS). According to cas.org, CAS SciFinderⁿ is the latest scientific information solution from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder^®, CAS SciFinderⁿ includes relevance-ranked results, citation mapping, sequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.

This LibGuide was created by Morgan Lammert, library intern and former chemist.