MDL CrossFire provides online access to the most comprehensive source for organic chemistry. Structure, reaction, property, and reference information is available from the eighteenth century to today. Seven million compounds, 10 million reactions, and 20 million chemical, physical and biological properties are included in MDL CrossFire's databases, as well as over 600,000 abstracts of organic chemistry literature.
MDL CrossFire allows for three interrelated methods of searching: structure, reaction, and literature citations. Structure and substructure searching includes chemical, physical, and biological properties, preparative methods, and chemical behavior. Reaction searching looks at specific reaction attributes, such as reaction centers, bond fates, and atom-atom mapping. Finally, literature citations, including authors, titles, and citations can be searched directly.
Structure, substructure, reaction, property, and keyword searches can be combined for more complicated searching. Hyperlinks within records act as pointers connecting related information. For instance, structures retrieved in a search contain links leading directly to citations and reactions containing the selected compound.
MDL CrossFire is available in the Information Commons of the Chemistry-Biology library. Client software for CrossFire can also be downloaded to the desktop of your workstation or your lab's workstation. To download the software you must be a current student, faculty or staff member of the University of Cincinnati.If you have questions or would like to download the CrossFire software to your workstation, email John Tebo in the Chemistry-Biology Library (Rieveschel 503), or call at (513) 556-1494.
