Fall 2003
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Updated: 6 October 2003
1. Beilstein CrossFireplusReactions Subject Search using Beilstein Commander.
Use the Fact editor in Beilstein CrossFireplusReactions. Do the equivalent of an Expand search on STN if you do not know the field labels to use in the following searches. (That is, use the "list values" icon while your cursor is in the field values box.)
Find the compound(s) with chemical name Mycarose.
[1] Print the third substance record in your answer set, write your name on it, and hand in. (You should have the open form of the sugar.)
[2] Write down a strategy for a search on the Beilstein database to determine how many of the records for compounds in the database have the structure keyword "stereo compound" (check the IDE portion in "list values" to find the appropriate code) and chemical name Mycarose.
[3] Run your strategy and list the number of compounds found.
2. Use the MEDLINE database on PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/) to find a 1985 article published by W.R. Roush and S.M. Hagadorn on the synthesis of mycarose.
[4] Obtain a printout that includes the abstract of the article and hand it in with your name on it.
3. Use the ChemIDplus database at http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/ to find Mycarose.
[5] What is the Molecular Formula of Mycarose?
[6] What is the Registry Number for mycarose?
Use the Registry Number for Mycarose as a search key in the Medline database to retrieve articles dealing with Mycarose.
[7] Print out the list of articles retrieved to be handed in. (You should have fewer than 10.)
[8] What is the purpose of the ChemIDplus database?
[9] How does it compare in size to the number of compounds found in the Chemical Abstracts Registry File? (List the approximate numbers of compounds in each.)4. Connect to SciFinder Scholar and search the Registry Number for Mycarose.
[10] Obtain a printout of the record for the substance to be handed in.Notice the additional information on the substance that is given in the Chemical Abstracts database as compared to the NLM ChemIDplus database.
[11] List one piece of information found in SciFinder Scholar that is not in the Mycarose record on ChemIDplus.
Use the Registry Number for Mycarose that you found in ChemIDplus to search the SciFinder Scholar database for articles on the preparation of mycarose.
[12] Obtain a printout for any one of them that includes the abstract and indexing. Notice the P that is appended to the Registry Number and the Role that is assigned to the indexing of the RN.
[13] What role(s) was (were) used in your article to index Mycarose?
[14] Is the Roush and Hagadorn article among those you found?
[15] If not, explain why you did not find it with a Registry Number search.
5. Formula Searching.
Use SciFinder Scholar to find the compound K4Fe(CN)6.
[16] How many substances did you find?
[17] What is the CAS Registry Number for the compound that has the most references associated with it?
[18] Look at the detailed record for the compound with the most references and obtain a printout in the full format. Note the many names that are used for the compound.
Retrieve the answers for the preparation of the substance that has the most
references associated with it.
[19] How many answers did you find?
Use SciFinder Scholar to search the molecular formula for Mycarose. [Note that on SciFinder Scholar, you do not always have to put the formula in the Hill System order, but in most formula indexes, you do.]
[20] How many substances did you find?
Look at the many substances found using the molecular formula for Mycarose in the 1992-96 printed CA Collective Formula Index.
[21] In what book and page of the 13th Collective Index Molecular Formula Index to CA is the entry for Mycarose found?
6. Substance Name Search in the Printed CA Collective Indexes.
Please DO NOT mark in the CA volumes, but do re-shelve them when done!
[22] In the 1982-86 Chemical Substance Index to the printed Chemical Abstracts, what name is used to index Mycarose? Include the full name and the Registry Number.
Use the printed Chemical Substance Index to find a reference to the stereospecific synthesis of mycarose that was published in 1982 in the journal Tetrahedron Letters.
[23] Write down the reference in the format required by the second edition of The ACS Style Guide.
7. Substance Search in the SCI database.
Use the Science Citation Index to see if anyone has cited Roush and Hagadorn's 1985 article on mycarose synthesis.
[24] How many times was the article cited?
[25] Print the reference to the most recent paper that cited it in the shortest format available to you and hand it in. [Hint: Mark your answer, submit it, and use the Marked List to choose the format in which to print.]