Process chemistry

• Process chemistry databases are characterized by large amounts of data about relatively few reactions. They are often of high economic importance.

• Such databases are rarely integrated with more conventional chemical databases (perhaps because much of the information is proprietary?)

• Conventional chemical information indexing methods seem suitable for such databases. This would allow integration into the "chemical database universe."

• The reverse process is also of interest. Those of us using conventional chemical information tools could learn something from the methods used in process chemistry information management. In particular, support for multifactorial optimization of synthetic yield has direct applicability to areas such as combinatorial library design.

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