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Reaxys is an innovative chemical database that optimizes small molecule discovery

Discover, innovate and develop with confidence. Reaxys combines a billion chemistry data points from chemical patents and literature with analytical and predictive tools. Go further, faster with Reaxys.

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Trusted content, technology and expertise to support chemistry research

Gain critical insights to inform decision making and transform workflows

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An unparalleled breadth of chemistry data, literature and flexible technology help you:

  • Mitigate IP risk with the largest collection of patents in a chemistry database

  • Stay abreast of developments in pharma and chemical research, and identify innovation opportunities

  • Break down information silos by integrating in-house and external data

  • Power custom chemistry applications, including AI models

Design new substances and optimize their properties

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Use the largest and most reliable collection of physicochemical, toxicology and bioactivity data to:

  • Design novel compounds with improved properties, from target affinity to conductivity or solubility

  • Anticipate safety risks and assess the toxicology and ADME profile of compounds

  • Optimize potency and selectivity of leads with SAR

Generate high-quality synthesis routes in minutes

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Discover a tool combining high-quality reaction data with AI technology to:

  • Access scientifically robust predicted and published routes in minutes

  • Analyze and edit reaction steps by reviewing underlying literature references and experimental conditions, all in one view

  • Select routes to take to the lab based on commercial availability of starting materials

Connected, configurable solutions to innovate in R&D

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Advance your R&D with Elsevier’s Reaxys and a portfolio of solutions for pharmaceutical and chemicals and materials R&D. Strengthen confidence in your business decisions, supported by:

  • Trusted quality information from peer-reviewed scientific literature to regulatory data

  • Innovative technology that powers data transformation and analytical and predictive tools

  • Domain and data science expertise to solve complex problems with data solutions for R&D

Information integrity is essential to your progress. Discover trusted data and tools that deliver critical insights. Let's shape progress together.

The trusted quality data and innovative technology that deliver chemistry insights

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113 million documents, 43 million patents

Comprehensive and up-to-date journal and patent coverage from 18,000 journals and 105 patent offices.
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283 million substances, 500 million physicochemical data points

Substances from articles, patents and commercial catalogs, including experimental data (NMR, Mass, IR spectra, crystal properties, solubility, etc.)
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46 million bioactivities

Normalized bioactivity data points with references (in-vivo and in-vitro toxicity, ADME). SAR analysis with heat map.
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Predictive retrosynthesis

Combination of AI technology and 73 million high-quality reactions, including references and experimental procedures.
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338 million commercial products

Up-to-date commercial availability of 110 million substances (with price, purity and package size) from 520 suppliers. Option to define preferred vendors.
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Comprehensive, trusted, machine-readable chemistry data

Curated chemical data via API and secure data download for search, discovery and predictive modeling applications.

"Reaxys provides our researchers with rich data and comprehensive perspectives for problem solving, and thus ensures that our synthetic work is based on better solutions."

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Rujian Ma

Vice President of Chemistry at WuXi AppTec

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