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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.
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
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
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
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.
"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."
RM
Rujian Ma
Vice President of Chemistry at WuXi AppTec
Chemical searches in Reaxys are different due to:
Options for searching structures, reactions, keywords and property values
The unique ability to combine structure and text searches
A transparent query process with an easy-to-follow path to results
You can integrate in-house and external data in a proprietary version of Reaxys. Critical in-house knowledge becomes searchable and actionable. This seamless integration sets Reaxys apart from other chemistry research solutions.
Reaxys includes:
Organic, inorganic and organometallic substances
Chemical reactions
Published experimental facts, including substance property, spectral and reaction data
Chemical patents
Yes, Reaxys has the largest collection of new pharma and chemical patents from 105 patent offices. Titles, abstracts and claims are translated to English. Fastest access to substances in newly published patents — only five days after publication