The Royal Soci­ety of Chem­istry (RSC), UK, has announced the release of Chem­Spi­der Syn­thet­ic­Pages­beta, a com­mu­nity resource of reac­tion syn­the­sis pro­ce­dures. The launch of a beta site is the result of a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Chem­Spi­der, a free online struc­ture cen­tric com­mu­nity for chemists, and the orig­i­nal Syn­thet­ic­Pages. Syn­thet­ic­Pages is a freely avail­able inter­ac­tive data­base of syn­thetic chem­istry for the dis­sem­i­na­tion of prac­ti­cal and reli­able organic, organometal­lic and inor­ganic chem­i­cal syn­the­sis, reac­tions and pro­ce­dures deposited by syn­thetic chemists.

Under the part­ner­ship, Chem­Spi­der will host con­tent from Syn­thet­ic­Pages. A search of Chem­Spi­der Syn­thet­ic­Pages­beta allows iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and detail­ing of the exper­i­men­tal pro­ce­dures for the syn­the­sis of spe­cific chem­i­cal com­pounds. The data­base has been seeded with SyntheticPages.org data and will be expanded by inclu­sion of data from jour­nal arti­cles pub­lished by RSC.

Researchers will also be able to deposit their own syn­thetic pro­ce­dures to the site. Using online seman­tic markup tech­nolo­gies and inte­grat­ing to the Chem­Spi­der data­base will allow inter­ac­tive dis­play of chem­i­cal struc­tures, spec­tral data and a mul­ti­tude of related data. Sci­en­tists can com­ment upon a grow­ing resource of inter­ac­tive syn­thetic processes, while lever­ag­ing the resources con­tained within the Chem­Spi­der databases.

Chem­Spi­der Syn­thet­ic­Pages­beta is released in beta form for feed­back from the com­mu­nity at www.chemspider.com/syntheticpages.

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