Presentation about finding chemical properties and tautomers, radicals, isotopes, and Markush structures in Reaxys. An Rgroup query and organometallic query are also included.
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Finding Substances and their Properties in Reaxys
1. TIPS AND TRICKS FOR
FINDING SUBSTANCES AND
THEIR PROPERTIES
Webinar presented
October 21, 2014
Christine Flemming
Elsevier Product Training Manager
Oct. 21, 2014
c.flemming@elsevier.com
2. AGENDA
How to find:
• Tautomers
• Radicals
• Isotopes
• Markush
How to find property data for these and
other types of structures
3. 3
Boiling Point of cyclopropanols (and ethers)
Create an Excel sheet of cyclopropanols (and ethers) along with their boiling
points. Limit to substances that also contain a 6-membered ring.
The query interpretation is
shown on the Results page
Limit to substances with 6-
membered rings
Analysis View
tool
5. 5
Optical Rotatory Power of trimethylsilanes
Filter for boiling point
Eliminate nitriles
Begin a report on selected property data
6. 6
Mouse over data and click red
triangle to select and add to
your report.
Click “Send” to
send a zipped
html file to
colleagues
Create the Report
Click the “Report” button to
view your selections.
Click the “Annotation” link in
the upper right side to add
text to your report
11. Two substances are
retrieved when Include
Tautomers is not
checked
11
Specified stereochemistry
is the only difference
12. 12
Reaxys tautomers:
• Substances that can be isolated and
characterized
• The structures are abstracted and displayed in
Reaxys just as they are displayed in the
literature
• Tautomers are placed in separate records
(they are not merged into one record)
• Only covers the movement of real atoms, thus
excluding charges and valences
• Uses classic conjugated double bonds
These are not tautomers
Tautomers
Tautomers
13. Repeat the search
with the Include
Tautomers box
checked
26 substances are retrieved.
13
Examples:
19. 19
Riboflavin radicals
Retrieves 23 substances
Subtract one list from the
other from the History page
Results in 1 substance
It may be necessary to search for radicals 2
different ways in some cases (see slide 17)
23. MARKUSH STRUCTURES
23
Text from the patent is put
into a tabular format
This is the Markush
structure
24. 24
From the Citations
tab, you can view
the Markush
structure(s) from a
patent by clicking
the Substances
hyperlink. The
Markush structures
will appear at the
end of the list.*
*Not all patents will
contain Markush strctures.
25. 25
Click the More Options
link. Then check the
box for Include
Related Markush
Please Note: Most
options are selected
26. 26
27 structures retrieved
when Include Related
Markush is checked
(26 of them are Markush
structures)
One substance is retrieved
when Include Related
Markush is not checked
27. 27
Repeat the previous search using
the options shown below (this will
result in a larger list)
Please Note: Most
options are NOT
selected
29. ORGANOMETALLIC
29
Find niacin-metal
complexes
Create the atom list in MarvinSketch:
1. Click the More button
2. Click the Atom List button
3. Select atoms
4. Click Close. Click in the white
space.
31. R-GROUP SEARCH
31
Find analogs of niacin
This can be bonded
to H or to a
heterocyclic group
An alkyl or halo can
be attached at any
of these sites
32. 32
1. Add a bond to the
OH. Then click the “r”
button and select CHH
for “heterocyclic or
hydrogen”
2. Use the Lasso
tool and select these
3 atoms.
3. With the 3 atoms
selected, right-click
and select Edit
Structure>Add>Posi-tion
Variation bond
5. Draw the
components of the
Rgroup (ALK and X).
4. Click the atom on
the end, type “R1”.
6. Select the ALK and
X. While they are
selected, type r1.
While still selected,
click the ALK and the X
to add the attachment
points.
33. THANK YOU
ANY QUESTIONS?
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Notas do Editor
Hello and welcome to this Reaxys webinar on finding substances and their properties.
As the title implies, we will only be concerned with substances and there will be no mention of reactions.
Please send me your questions through the questions box on your control panel.
In this session we will take a look at some very easy ways to find property data and we’ll look at how to find different types of substances, like Tautomers, Radicals, Isotopes, and Markush structures …..
I’ll start with a property search. I want to quickly create an Excel sheet of cyclopropanols along with their boiling points……and I want to limit to substances that contain 6-membered rings.
So, I will open Reaxys……and use Ask Reaxys.
Notice how quickly I found what I wanted. If you are not familiar with Ask Reaxys…….it is a relatively new feature…it just came out in April of this year and is designed to be like a Google search. It is still in beta, but it gets better all the time so stay tuned to even more improvements.
With Ask Reaxys you can enter phrases like:
“Preparation of ritalin” for a list of reactions
“mechanism of the Mitsunobu reaction” for a list of citations
Please note: The Excel sheet shown here was edited a bit to remove a few columns.
Another example is the optical Rotatory power of trimethylsilanes.
I’d like to filter for boiling boint, eliminate nitriles, and then begin a report.
Tautomers
I’ll use dihydrofolic acid as our first example.
If you look up dihydrofolic acid in Wikipedia, this is the structure you will find. But this substance actually exists in a variety of tautomeric and stereochemical forms………….so, when I look for the structure from the name in Reaxys, I am presented with 7 different choices.
I’ll choose the same one that is shown in Wikipedia.
And when I run the search “As is” I retrieve these 2 substances. The only difference between these 2 is that the stereochemistry is specified in one and not the other.
Notice that “Include Tautomers” is not checked by default. I will repeat the search with the box checked….but first let’s see what Reaxys considers to be a tautomer.
Read the slide.
And here are some examples of tautomers along with an example of what is not a tautomer.
So when I repeat the search, I retrieve 26 substances (therefore, 24 of them are tautomers)…..and here are some examples with the relevant bonds highlighted.
Radicals are next. Here is the structure for N-acetyl-glutamic acid….and you would like to find an example where radicalization took place at this location on the molecule.
You can easily do this in MarvinSketch by right-clicking the atom and selecting Edit Atom>Radical>Monovalent.
And here is the result.
There is an important tip that I’d like to show you…..
Notice that the word radical can be spelled 2 different ways. If you are looking for the radicals of a certain substance or class of substances, a quick way to do it is to use the Chemical Name field to help isolate the radicals in the results. But you have to remember to capture both possible spellings of the word. See the next slide for an example of this.
We’ll use Riboflavin as an example. Here’s the query (make sure that the “No Radicals” box is not checked). Then add the chemical name portion, using Contains as the data operator. This results in 4 radicals. Notice the spelling of the chemical names.
Now, let’s compare this to what is probably the most common way to find these substances: using the Query Options on the Substance Query form. First…….delete the text portion of the query, and then run the search. This results in 24 substances….most show stereochemical variation.
Repeat the search with the “No Radicals” box checked. This results in 23 substances. If you had large lists of substances to deal with, you could easily find the radical(s) by subtracting one list from the other.
(Go back to slide 17 to show the difference and explain that it may be necessary to perform the search both ways in some cases)
I’ll use niacin for the next example. You can find isotopes in a similar manner that was shown with radicals: by using the query features box and subtracting one list from the other……
…or you can use the Structure Editor to put an isotope label on an atom.
The term “Markush structure” has a fairly narrow definition in Reaxys. Here you see the claims section of a patent that describes possible structures…….
That text is put into a tabular format in Reaxys. And this structure is referred to as the Markush structure.
When you view patent data from the Citations results tab in Reaxys, you can view a list of substances from the patent. If there are any Markush structures associated with the patent, they will typically appear at the end of the list.
When you search for substances from the substances page using a structure search, you will retrieve all Markush structures related to the results if you check the box for Include Related Markush.
27 structures are retrieved when Include Related Markush is checked. One substance is retrieved when it is unchecked.
Try the previous search using the options shown so that you retrieve a larger list.
If you want to view the Markush structures from a large list of structures: first, sort by mol.wt. and then jump to the last page. Most of the Markush structures in the list will be in the last few pages.