Chemical Substance or Reaction Searches . The third way to search SciFind Scholar is for substance information. Students will readily learn to draw structures. The drawing software is crisp, very easy to use, and works extremely well. It takes very little time to learn.
Templates are available for many common substances, as are shortcuts for common functional groups.
If there is uncertainty about how to draw, Help messages are available and it is easy to find relevant sections. Twenty-one substances have that structure, with different stereoisomers and isotopes. The search is completed remarkably fast. Searchers can scan the graphic structures quickly with 9 or so structures on a screen. When a likely candidate is identified, a click on the microscope brings up the full Registry File record.