Information Quiz

Primary literature

• Reports research results by the researchers

• Journal articles, reports, meeting proceedings, theses, dissertations, posters, patents, etc.

Secondary literature

• Collections and reorganized forms of primary literature; summarizes research from many researchers

• Review articles, chapters, books, monographs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, reviews, databases, abstracting services (Chemical Abstracts)

Tertiary literature

Guides to using primary and secondary literature

Journals for primary literature

• Nature

• Science

• Environmental Science and Technology

• Journal of Chemical Education

Journals for broad coverage across all sciences

• Nature

• Science

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Premiere journal in chemistry

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Major organic chemistry journals

• Journal of Organic Chemistry

• Angewandte Chemie

• Organic Letters

• Synthesis

• Synlett

Major biochemistry journals

• Biochemistry

• Journal of Biological Chemistry

• Chemical Biology

• Biochemical Journal

• Nature Chemical Biology

Major medicinal chemistry/chemical toxicology journals

• Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

• Chemical Research in Toxicology

Major analytical chemistry journals

• Analytical Chemistry

• Journal of Chromatography

• Analyst

• Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Major physical chemistry journals

• Journal of Physical Chemistry

• Journal of Chemical Physics

• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Major inorganic/organometallic journals

• Inorganic Chemistry

• Organometallics

• Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

• Dalton Transactions

Major chemical education journal

Journal of Chemical Education

Major environmental chemistry journal

Environmental Science and Technology

Scifinder

PubMed

Google Scholar

Chemical abstracts service

www.acs.org

Dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.

SciFinder vs Web of Science

What is the simplified name for the German chemical literature abstracts databases available prior to Chemical Abstracts (1907) for organic compounds?

Beilstein

What is the simplified name for the German chemical literature abstracts databases available prior to Chemical Abstracts (1907) for inorganic compounds?

Gmelin

Databases other than SciFinder for properties, syntheses, spectra, etc.

Databases for spectra

Databases for syntheses

What kinds of chemically related inventions are patentable?

• Compounds and mixtures

• Processes

• Structural databases (X-ray structures)

• Biological sequences

• Machines and instruments

• Plants and organisms (edited)

What criteria must be satisfied for an invention to be patentable?

• Novelty

• Utility

• Inventive (not obvious)

What is the lifetime of a patent?

20 years

What is a patent?

Property rights granted to an inventor by a government for a limited time

What is the major source of searchable information about U.S patents?

What type of patent was the very first U.S. patent?

The first US patent was a chemical patent; “The making of pot ash and pearl ash by a new apparatus and process”

Can full-text patents be accessed via SciFinder?

What kind of content is found in the text of patents (what sections)?

• Claims section

• Experiment section

Which online sources can be used to find patents and patent information?

• Google patents (free)

• Patent coverage in chemical abstracts

• United States patent and trademark office (can not search by CAS number or structure)

You are planning to use diazomethane in lab to convert a carboxylic acid into a methyl ester. A search of the common supplier databases suggests no commercial supplier for diazomethane. Where would look for a preparation of diazomethane? Outline your search strategy.

The Grignard reaction is a well-known method to make new carbon-carbon bonds. Where would you look to find a review for this legendary reaction?

Using resources available to you online or through the UNCG library, how would you determine the best approach to prepare a known compound?

How would you determine if Sherri McFarland has submitted any patents on her photo-activated anticancer compounds?

Analogs of fentanyl could be potentially used as painkillers. How would you expediently determine what analogs of fentanyl have been prepared during the last five years? (provide a brief outline of your search strategy)

Who is the most significant publisher of chemistry books?

Wiley-VCH

Combined Chemical Dictionary

• Can search by name, CAS number, structure

Sigma Aldrich

Search by name and CAS number

SciFinder

• Can search by name, CAS number, partial structures, complete structures, and reaction