Release date: March 2008

Thieme is pleased to announce that Science of Synthesis Version 3.5 is now available. Science of Synthesis, a comprehensive critical treatment of synthetic organic chemistry, is one of the most authoritative, in-depth information resources available on synthetic methodology.

The electronic information resource now contains 34 volumes, out of what will eventually be a total of 48 volumes. This upgraded version has a total of 195,000 reactions, with over 18,000 new reactions, and holds significant synthetic methods for a wide range of classes of compounds.

New content consists of: 

• Volume 29
• Volume 31a and 31b
  

The information resource consists of six categories, of which the first three categories are now complete.

• Category 1:  Organometallics - Complete
• Category 2:  Hetarenes and Related Ring Systems - Complete
• Category 3:  Compounds with Four and Three Carbon—Heteroatom Bonds - Complete
• Category 4:  Compounds with Two Carbon—Heteroatom Bonds
• Category 5:  Compounds with One Saturated Carbon—Heteroatom Bond
• Category 6:  Compounds with All-Carbon Functions