Databases with sufficient facts allow you
to choose the most appropriate literature reference. Instead of printing
50 and more papers that collect dust, these databases help you to select
the one or two papers that are really relevant to your question. All the
database have links to the online journals, and provided you have a
license you can jump directly to the original paper.
Once you have made the decision what to
do you need a compound. The easiest would be, if you could grab it from
your desk, or from your neighbors lab, or from somewhere in the house,
or get it delivered from the stockroom! The MDL Sourcing application can
help you to find compounds easily. Obviously, the need to registered
easily into the system. On way is you swipe the bottle over a bar coded
reader and the system knows the new location of the bottle. Your scale
is also connected to a computer and the difference in weight will be
recorded if you take a sample.
What you can't get, you have to buy.
Symyx
Available Chemicals
Directory (ACD) is the
choice for buying fine chemicals. ACD contains Aldrich, Fluka, and 700
more suppliers. You will also find the building blocks from AKos GmbH in
ACD.
What you can't buy you have to make.
Symyx (MDL) has a huge collection of reactions. However reaction
databases can differ quite substantially if you start searching.
ChemInform is the best choice for
searching for group transformations. The underlying technology allows
you to make very sophisticated queries, for instance you can define an
aromatic bond.
All your work represents a lot of
knowledge and money. Nobody wants to loose this knowledge any more. But,
you don't have the time to carefully register all your work. We take
care of it that everything what you write and draw can be automatically
stored properly. There are several tools. One is the MDL Notebook.