John
Wiley &
Sons, Inc. announced the launch of SpecInfo on
Wiley
InterScience, its dynamic
online
publishing platform. With over 434,000 curated
spectra, SpecInfo is among the world's largest collections.
This launch marks the first time Wiley has made the
collection available on the Internet through Wiley
InterScience.
SpecInfo provides an integrated
spectroscopy solution for
viewing, predicting, and searching spectra. SpecInfo
collections cover three specialized fields: Infrared (IR),
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), and Mass
spectroscopy
(MS). All the data included in SpecInfo are curated -
databases are
quality controlled at the point of data
preparation and are sourced from reputable
laboratories and
peer-reviewed literature.
The IR databases consist of two groups: the Polymer group
and the Organic Compounds and
surfactants group, which also
include Near IR spectra. IR spectroscopy is used in
synthesis control,
trace analysis,
process control, quality
control and other applications. Since the interpretation of
IR spectra is difficult, database searches are essential in
IR spectroscopy.
The NMR databases contains three collections: the
Proton NMR
collection, which incorporates natural compounds and
physiologically active compounds; the
carbon NMR collection,
which covers the whole range of
chemistry/order_t/'>organic chemistry and
focuses on
natural products including those used in medical
research; and the XNMR collection, which is useful in the
manufacture of such consumer goods as
detergents and
engineered materials, including silicone
chemistry.
The MS databases fall into three categories: General Organic
Chemistry,
environmental chemistry, and
food and Nutrition.
The MS database search is ideally suited for identifying a
chemical compound - and due to its high sensitivity - is
especially effective in identifying compounds in trace
amounts.
SpecInfo offers impressive search functionality, allowing
users to search by structure, substructure, complete
spectra, individual spectral features, chemical names, and
molecular properties. Each entry includes: chemical name,
molecular formula,
molecular weight, literature reference,
solvent (NMR), standard (NMR), and measurement conditions.