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Annotated experimental procedures and source text extracted from 30+ journals and patents, searchable by structure, substructure, or similarity.
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15M+ characterization details pulled directly from source literature and presented in a clean and easy-to-read format.
A custom chemistry database from 30+ journals and patents
6M+
Compounds
13M+
Reaction passages indexed
15M+
Characterization details
Extracted directly from 30+ top peer-reviewed journals and patent offices including:
- Nat. Chem.
- Organic Letters
- J. Org. Chem.
- Angew. Chem.
- Adv. Synth. Catal.
- Green Chem.
- Chem. Sci.
- USPTO Patents
Coverage is selective but spans a significant portion of each source's reaction literature.
Open source cheminformatics libraries
Cholla Chem
Name-to-SMILES conversion with error correction and consensus strategies.
rdchiral_plus
Fork of rdchiral with improved speed and accuracy.
Free, MIT-licensed Python libraries: Cholla Chem for name-to-SMILES conversion, Agave Chem for atom-to-atom reaction mapping, rdchiral_plus for production-grade reaction extraction, and more.
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