Release notes for June 2022

The Reaxys Team continue to strive to make improvements to your experience within the product. This release focuses on improving some Predictive Retrosynthesis functionalities:  

Updates to Retrosynthesis Views

Analysis of user behavior in Reaxys Retrosynthesis shows that Tree View is dominantly used and preferred by users thus, to simplify the workflow we decided to remove Table View option from the interface and just kept the Tree View available for getting quick and easy overviews of synthesis plans.

Adding Predictive Retrosynthesis option to the Results preview page

One of the most challenging tasks for Chemists is the creation of new molecules. In order to get ideas on how to make a desired compounds users typically draw the desired structure as a query in Reaxys and try to find data for this or similar structures. If the compound is novel, Reaxys will return no results, since the molecule is not reported in literature. Users have the option to modify the query to find similar structures as starting point for their research. With this release, we have added a new option to the Chemist’s toolbox: if you have access to Reaxys’ Predictive Retrosynthesis, now you have the option to “Predict Synthesis” from the results preview page:

A click on this button will transfer the query structure into Retrosynthesis and start the retrosynthesis process automatically. This way users will get ideas on how to make their desired molecules without copy/pasting structures from one area of Reaxys into another.