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For synthetic work, CAS SciFinder is an essential tool. It increases the effectiveness of planning and conducting research.

— Faculty, Educational Institution

CAS Case Study

Giving small business executives confidence

Introduction

This case study of a small business pharmaceuticals company is based on an April 2024 survey of CAS customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“CAS SciFinder enables flexible, filterable searches that help me find unique results compared to other search methods.”

Challenges

This organization generates information and ideas about agents and approaches for chemotherapy and immunoprevention research.

The business challenges that the profiled company faces and is using CAS SciFinder to help solve:

Determining novelty and freedom to operate
Finding research precedent

Use Case

The key areas that the surveyed company uses CAS SciFinder to help include:

Assessing the IP landscape
Finding commercially available chemicals
Identifying substances and reactions
Performing literature reviews to generate a hypothesis
Sharing information with colleagues
Staying up to date on research in their field

The researcher agrees that CAS SciFinder provides the following benefits to their experience:

It gives me access to a comprehensive collection of scientific content
It is easy to use
It quickly provides precise search results
Its productivity features (e.g., search history, Alerts) save me time

Results

CAS SciFinder serves as the organization’s primary source for unequivocal agent identification. In one example it was used to identify a synonym and another CAS Number for a specific agent resulting in the discovery of many resources that answered basic questions, resulting in increased confidence before starting a project.

CAS Customer Research

SciFinder

To you, how important is it to be able to search by trade names and/or lab codes?

Extremely important	16%
Kind of important	33%
Neutral	29%
Slightly less important	12%
Not at all important	8%
Other	0%

CAS Customer Testimonial

The three best things about CAS Chemical Compliance Index:
- Ability to search by different variables
- See structures if available
- Search by regulations

— Compliance / Regulatory, Large Enterprise Agriculture Company

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 Case Study

Contributing to the synthesis of new polymers

Introduction

This case study of a small business chemicals company is based on an April 2024 survey of CAS customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Without CAS SciFinder, I would not be able to conduct proper, efficient, and professional chemistry research and synthesis. THe CAS SciFinder platform is critical for my work.”

Challenges

The aim of this organization is to synthesize new polysiloxane polymers to prepare new coatings for many applications.

The business challenges that the profiled company faces and is using CAS SciFinder to help solve:

Accelerating research due to competitive pressures
Determining novelty and freedom to operate
Finding research precedent
Uncovering synthesis options
Help to get information about regulatory status of chemicals

Use Case

The key areas that the surveyed company uses CAS SciFinder to help include:

Assessing the IP landscape
Devising synthetic plans
Finding commercially available chemicals
Identifying substances and reactions
Performing literature reviews to generate a hypothesis
Preparing for laboratory experiments

The researcher agrees that CAS SciFinder provides the following benefits to their experience:

It gives me access to a comprehensive collection of scientific content
It is easy to use
It quickly provides precise search results
It helps me to be more prepared for my time in the lab
It reduces the time I spend creating a plan or hypothesis
I am confident that I am not missing results relevant to my research
It helps improve the effectiveness of my research
It assists in creating better synthesis plans

Results

“Without CAS SciFinder, I would not have been able to design, prepare, and characterize a series of novel building blocks used in the synthesis of new polysiloxanes. Ultimately, the work described above was later patented.”

In general, the researcher (at least partially) associated the following outcomes with their use of CAS SciFinder:

Accelerated discovery
Improved productivity
Increased confidence
Reduced costs

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