Audience
Research chemists interested in a platform to access detailed chemical information, including compounds, reactions, and properties, from a vast collection of scientific literature
About Reaxys
Reaxys is a web-based tool developed by Elsevier for retrieving information about chemical compounds and data from published literature, including journals and patents. The platform provides access to chemical compounds, reactions, properties, related bibliographic data, substance data with synthesis planning information, and experimental procedures from selected journals and patents. Launched in 2009 as the successor to the CrossFire databases, Reaxys was designed to offer research chemists access to current and historical information in organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry through an intuitive interface. The platform covers over 200 years of chemistry, abstracted from thousands of journal titles, books, and patents. Its content includes data from selected journals and chemistry patents, focusing on entries that have a chemical structure, are supported by experimental facts, and have credible citations.