Chemical 101

Welcome to PatSnap Chemical

Innovation in chemistry is required in all sectors of industry — life sciences, material science and many other branches. These innovations are the foundation of our modern society and lead the way for businesses to develop.

PatSnap Chemical is a platform built using direct feedback and ideas from both leading academics and multinational companies in the chemical industry. The result is a solution that lets researchers seamlessly jump from chemical structure searches to related patents and back again in a single workflow.

PatSnap Chemical contains over 53 million patents, 270 million chemical structures and 26 million pieces of literature, plus regulatory and clinical‑trial information. This breadth of data allows you to capture all the important information about a chemical of interest and the patents associated with it.

The key functions of the PatSnap Chemical platform are summarised below:

• Search – locate the chemical of interest by searching on compound name, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula or InChIKey. You can also draw a structure if you don’t have an identifier.

• Results – refine the data behind your search using filters, sort options and tabs for structures, patents and literature.

• Chemical Information – obtain detailed information about a chemical, including synonyms, molecular formula, IUPAC name, SMILES, cross‑references and more.

• Analysis – put patents related to a structure into a statistical context. (The analysis user interface has not changed, so the existing screenshot can be reused.)

• Chemscape – gain a strategic perspective of your chemical of interest by visualising the patent landscape. (This view is unchanged.)

• Patents – obtain a detailed view of innovation associated with your chemical. This list shows the publication number, title, number of substances and hit‑structure information.

• Extract – extract all chemicals from one or multiple patents. You can select patents and export chemical structures, save them to your workspace or open them in analytics.

Below are updated screenshots of the platform reflecting the latest interface. Each image corresponds to one of the key functions listed above.

1 – Search page

Start your search by typing a compound name, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula or InChIKey into the search box. A Draw Structure button allows you to sketch a chemical structure, and the Playbook below offers quick access to common workflows such as finding similar structures or running a bulk search.

2 – Results page

After running a search, the platform displays tabs for Structures, Patents and Literature. The left‑hand panel lets you refine the results by structure type, publication year, drug approvals and more. Use the toolbar above the results to export data, save to LabBench, or open the Analysis and Chemscape tools.

3 – Chemical Information page

Clicking a structure opens a detailed overview. The Identifiers tab lists the compound name, synonyms, molecular formula, IUPAC name, InChI and SMILES strings, and first‑publication information. Additional tabs provide cross‑references, structure properties, patent links, literature references, clinical‑trial data, methods & reactions, human approvals, sources and functions.

4 – Patents page

The Patents tab lists patent families associated with the selected structure. For each patent you can see the publication number, title, number of substances, hit‑structure number, an image of the hit structure and where in the patent the structure is mentioned. Sort the list by publication date or other criteria, and use the view controls to switch between table and card views.

5 – Extract and bulk actions

You can select one or more patents using the check‑boxes in the patents table. The actions menu that appears lets you Export, Extract Chemical Structures, Save to workspace or View in Analytics. This is particularly useful for extracting multiple structures at once from several patents.

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