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PCC Chemax

Introduction

This case study of PCC Chemax is based on a July 2021 survey of SciFinderⁿ customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Regulatory and chemical inventory status helps me to select appropriate chemistries for projects. Enhanced Markush searching helps me to locate substances more easily.”

“It helps me to quickly rule out substances based on inventory status. It also helps me to see possible synthetic routes.”

Challenges

The types of research challenges CAS SciFinder helps them solve:

Conducting literature reviews for hypothesis generation
Finding commercially available chemicals

Use Case

Features and functionalities of CAS SciFinder that the surveyed company finds particularly useful:

Enhanced Markush searching with location of a desired structure pinpointed within a patent document
Ability to exclude select criteria in search results

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with CAS SciFinder:

They estimate it would take twice the amount of time as using CAS SciFinder to conduct literature reviews.

CAS Customer Research

SciFinder

Would you consider being able to search by trade names and/or lab codes a benefit to your workflow?

Yes	65%
No	31%
Other	4%

CAS Customer Testimonial

I prefer the easy-to-use interface in CAS SciFinder, especially for inputting chemical structures. I like the feature of importing SMILES strings.

— Patent Attorney / Agent, Small Business Media & Entertainment Company

CAS Customer Testimonial

Nearly every time I use CAS SciFinder, I see something that sparks new ideas.

— Faculty, Educational Institution

CAS Customer Research

Top Reasons Clients Use CAS for IP Searches

Quality search results I can trust	64%
Deep subject matter expertise	52%
Extensive knowledge in designing search strategies that are efficient and effective	44%
Ability to work directly with searchers which improves communications and speeds projects	40%
Fast response to my project requests	40%

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PCC Chemax

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