There are 3 query types organized under the tabs: Reactions, Substances and Properties, and Text, Authors, and More (textual information). "You can draw a structure or reaction using a structure editor, load a previously saved structure or reaction, or generate a structure by typing a name. You can add further search conditions by including bibliographic and properties data in your query. You can save your query in XML format by clicking the Save Query button.

• In the Reactions query tab, you can search for reactions using structures and/or text.
• In the Substances and Properties query tab, you can search using structures and/or text.
• In the Text, Authors, and More query tab you can input text queries, which will be searched among titles and abstracts as well as patent numbers. The text search form allows the input of AND, NOT, OR, NEAR and NEXT operators together with search terms.

• Synthesis planner to design the optimum synthesis route
• Multi-step reactions to identify precursor reactions underlying synthesis of target compounds
• Additional search capabilities such as the ability to generate structure query from names or phrases
• Search result filters by key properties, synthesis yield, or other ranking criteria
• Results visualization
• Similarity search
• Transformation analysis"

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