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Patents
100
Use this kind of search to get only compounds having having certain atoms and a specifc number of each type of atom
What is a molecular formula search?
100
You can draw single, double, and triple these.
what are bonds?
100
Largest database for artcles and conference reports in all areas of engineering
What is Engineering Village?
100
Ullmann's, Kirk-Othmer, McKetta's are examples of this type of publication which has easy to understand articles
What are Chemical Encyclopedia?
100
This person or entity has property rights to the patent.
What is the assignee?
200
Use this search to get only compound that are just like your query, including sterioisomers and zwitterions.
What is an exact search?
200
Use this tool to delete mistakes or atoms or bonds you don't want when you are drawing a structure.
What is the eraser?
200
This US Government site has spectra and physical properties
What is NIST?
200
Use this to get the full name of a chemical journal when you have the abbreviation
What is CASSI?
200
Address of main American patent database
What is www.uspto.gov or http://patft.uspto.gov/?
300
Use this kind of search to get compounds that have what you drew embedded in their structures
What is a substructure search?
300
This tool lets you draw atoms or bonds
What is the pencil tool?
300
Handbook of Chemical Engineering with same name as a Engineering Building at UML
What is Perry's Handbook of Chemical Engineering?
300
Click on this in SFS to get this kind of info from EPA, DOT, FDA, TSCA, etc.
What is Regulatory Information?
300
This is the name of one database covering foreign patents.
What is Espacenet, EPO, SIPO, WIPO, CIP, PatentLens etc.
400
Use this type of search to get compounds that are structurally like what you drew
What is a similiarilty search?
400
You can add positive or negative these by clicking on the red or green.
What are charges?
400
Database that has full text books and lets you make customized charts and graphs, and search by a combination of properties?
What is Knovel?
400
This is the largest database for Medicine
What is Medline, Pub. Med. Index Medicus?
400
This is how long a United States patent remains in effect.
What is twenty years?
500
Use this kind of search to get patents that contain substances with structures like your query
What is a Markush search?
500
Cowboy or cowgirl, use this tool to move a structure to a new location in the drawing area ,
What is the lasso tool?
500
These sheets provide workers or emergency personnel with info on how do deal with particular substances.
What are MSDS or Material Safely Data Sheets?
500
Get this card so you can visit some major libraries in the area and bring home some of their books
What is a Boston Library Consortium card?
500
One criterion or requirement for patentability
What is utility (usefulness), novelty, or nonobviousness (ingenuity)?
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