CrossFire Newsletter
Newsletter #3 | October 2008

Welcome
to the third edition of the CrossFire newsletter. Alongside the regular CrossFire features - handy tips and tricks, did you knows and more - this month's edition focuses on CrossFire Gmelin - the essential first stop for organometallic and inorganic researchers.

Learn more about how Gmelin could help you in your research efforts and read about the database's unique features. Elsevier's partner in the development of Gmelin is the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V (GDCh) - the German Chemical Society. It holds ownership of the data and actively participates in the database's development.

Complimentary to CrossFire Beilstein, Gmelin provides data for all those who need information on catalysis, catalyst property data and material science. It isn't all about Gmelin though, read more about the Patent Chemistry Database, upcoming events and more news about the CrossFire support webinars run by the dedicated customer care team.

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What's New?

CrossFire Gmelin available on www.chem.de

Elsevier and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB Hannover) are pleased to annouce the integration of CrossFire Gmelin into www.chem.de - the information and knowledge platform. Chem.de is a joint project of the Chemistry Information Centre (FIZ) Berlin, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and TIB Hannover. Chem.de supports a detailed supply of chemical information and provides a valuable base for discussion, cooperation and education.

Chem.de's search engine now offers a free search by keywords, chemical names or formulas in the CrossFire Gmelin database... >>more

Catalysts in CrossFire Gmelin
Gmelin is an accurate information source on catalysts and catalyst property data. The success of olefin metathesis has spurred the intense investigation of new catalysts for this transformation and Gmelin is a highly useful tool to get a reliable overview of synthesis, reactions and physical properties of this catalyst class. Learn how to search for Ruthenium (Grubbs') catalysts in Gmelin...>>more
More free webinars available for CrossFire users
Following the success of the first run of free CrossFire webinars, new dates have been added running through until Christmas, ensuring that CrossFire users have the time and support they need to maximise their CrossFire usage - whether for just one of the databases or the entire suite. These free webinars take no longer than one hour and participants come away with a greater insight into CrossFire... >>more
Major customer movements
What you think
CrossFire is a valuable tool for research chemists and feedback from the webinars has shown just how useful CrossFire can be. With the right training, users are able to work more effectively and efficiently. >>more
 
Tips and Tricks
Do you know how to use variable atoms in a structure search in CrossFire Gmelin? Learn how this simple task is carried out in just three easy steps...>>more
Did you know that PCD offers the single spectra peaks of substances?
PCD is not a patent database in the common sense - it is a factual and reaction database, indexing experimental substance and reaction data from patents from 1976. Learn here how to access the single spectra peaks. >>more
 
Where to find us
Mark the dates for 19th - 22nd October - CrossFire will be present at the ICIC in Nice. Not only will product experts be on hand to answer and assist with any database queries, but also attendees will have an exclusive glimpse of Reaxys. >>more
And finally, more on Reaxys...
Reaxys, the brand new workflow tool for chemists is now available as an evaluation product. Web-based and intuitive, Reaxys supports the optimization of synthetic processes. >>more

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