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50 Millionth Unique Chemical Substance Recorded in CAS REGISTRY

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Novel analgesic marks major milestone in scientific discovery

Columbus, Ohio (September 8, 2009) – Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, announced that on September 7 it recorded the 50 millionth substance in CAS REGISTRY, the world’s most comprehensive and high-quality compendium of publicly disclosed chemical information. The recently registered substance is a novel arylmethylidene heterocycle with analgesic properties. Reaching the 50 million mark so quickly is an indicator of the accelerating pace of scientific knowledge. CAS registered the 40 millionth substance just nine months ago—in contrast, it took 33 years for CAS to register the 10 millionth compound in 1990.

Information professionals and scientists around the world have taken note of this important milestone. “The rapid growth of CAS REGISTRY is a mirror of the breadth and depth of creativity in research labs throughout the world,” said Grace Baysinger, head librarian at the Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library at Stanford University. “CAS REGISTRY is an indispensable resource for users in research, education, and industry.”  

“Achieving a milestone of 50 million small molecules registered, which I congratulate CAS for, has given us two major insights; one is that a novel substance is either isolated or synthesized every 2.6 seconds on the average during the past 12 months, day and night, seven days a week in the world, showing an almost unbelievable rate of progress in science,” said Dr. Hideaki Chihara, Ph.D. chemist and former president of Japan Association for International Chemical Information. “The other is that CAS is maintaining its reputation as the world’s largest compilation of substance information that every scientist in the world relies on either directly or indirectly.”

REGISTRY is the only integrated collection of chemical information from a full range of patent and journal literature, plus Web and other commercial sources that is curated and quality-controlled by a global team of scientists. REGISTRY not only provides chemical names, the unique CAS Registry Number, and vital literature references, but also ancillary information such as experimental and predicted property data (boiling and melting points, etc.), commercial availability, preparation details, spectra, and regulatory information from international sources. 

The 50 millionth substance (CAS Registry Number^® 1181081-51-5) was uncovered by CAS scientists from the Examples section of a nearly 200-page patent issued by the World Intellectual Property Organization on August 13, 2009.  According to the patent, “Few therapeutics are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory agencies for the treatment of neuropathic pain.”  To address this concern, a series of novel arylmethylidene heterocycles were synthesized, which included the most recent substance registered by CAS.

“The 50 million substances in CAS REGISTRY have the potential to enable new discoveries in every field of scientific study, from cancer research to the development of new consumer goods, the creation of more effective drugs, or the discovery of faster and smaller computer processors,”  said Dr. Matthew Toussant, senior vice president of editorial operations at CAS. “Scientific discoveries build upon past discoveries, and it is the quality and comprehensiveness of CAS REGISTRY that enables chemistry innovation.”

CAS REGISTRY is available to scientists through CAS’ award-winning product, SciFinder^®, and its STN^® family of products. With these advanced search and analysis technologies, CAS helps scientists find reliable information that is vital to their research process.

Katharine Widdows : 09 Sep 2009 10:14 |  Tags: Chemistry Sciencenews Scifinder |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Big News From The Chemical Abstracts Service

50 million substances and growing ... quickly

CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is on track to register the 50 millionth unique chemical substance in the CAS REGISTRY on Tuesday, September 8. CAS REGISTRY is the most comprehensive collection of disclosed chemical substance information in the world. It contains unique organic and inorganic substances, such as alloys, coordination compounds, minerals, mixtures, polymers and salts, and more than 61 million sequences.

The registration of the 50 millionth substance in REGISTRY marks a significant milestone not only for CAS, but for the scientific community as a whole. CAS registered its 40 millionth substance just nine months ago—in contrast, it took 33 years for CAS to register the 10 millionth compound in 1990. The predominant source of new chemical substance information being entered into the REGISTRY is global patent literature.

The scientific knowledge amassed and chronicled in REGISTRY by CAS scientists is accessed by tens of thousands of users and enables continued discovery by chemists and researchers around the globe. Top Fortune 500 corporations, all major patent offices and more than 1,500 universities—including Warwick—use CAS’ products to access the CAS REGISTRY for the comprehensive, current, reliable data they need to enable scientific discovery.

The identity of the 50 millionth substance will be announced Tuesday morning. Check back here later or follow @CASNews on Twitter to be the first to know what it is!

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Katharine Widdows : 08 Sep 2009 10:16 |  Tags: Chemistry Science Scifinder |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

ACS Publications Reader Survey

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The Publications Division at American Chemical Society is conducting a reader survey to understand your preferences when navigating and digesting today’s scientific literature.  As a subscriber and/or registered user of ACS Journals, we would very much appreciate you completing an online survey to share your experience, comments, and suggestions.  This survey is open for 2 weeks time, and is located at the following URL:

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The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete.  Please note that the answers you provide are anonymous; your identity will not be associated with your answers.

The ACS Publications website and ACS Journals are user-driven environments, guided by input from end-users, authors, editors, and customers.  Your feedback is much appreciated and will help to shape future enhancements to the society’s peer-reviewed research titles.

Thank you,
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CAS on twitter!

CAS, Chemical Abstract Service, is now tweeting on twitter.com. 

Click here to sign up and follow the CASChatter.   

Katharine Widdows : 20 Mar 2009 16:38 |  Tags: Chemistry Socialnetworking Twitter |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

SciFinder Scholar updated

This news just in from SciFinder Scholar:

“SciFinder Solutions has been updated! Learn more about the largest collection of proton NMR Spectra that is now available in SciFinder. Also view CAS’ latest podcast in the SciFinder series, Finding Information on Green Fashion: Not Your Mother’s Little Black Dress.

Visit http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/sfsolutions/ to read the latest news.”

Katharine Widdows : 09 Feb 2009 13:47 |  Tags: Chemistry E-Resources-News Scifinder |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem