InChI News

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August 25, 2022: InChI in the Wild: Celebrating Over 20 years of InChI Development in Memory of InChI Developer Igor Pletnev

This symposium honoring the many contributions of Igor Pletnev to the InChI project was held as part of the ACS Chicago 2022 meeting on Sunday August 21. Also covered were many research and development efforts to extend the InChI standard into additional areas of chemistry. The slide decks for these presentations are now available here.

trust, chemistry July 1, 2022: Research Assistant/Associate - Software Development Position Open

Professor Dr. Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University, has announced an open Reseach Assisstant position. The work will include further development of the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI), documentation of the programming developments and testing of extensions. The research group investigates topics in bioinorganic chemistry, sustainable polymerization catalysis, coordination chemistry and catalytic applications.

The positions have been filled.

general June 16, 2022: The InChI Trust Session at the Fall 2022 ACS Meeting in Chicago

The InChI Trust held an all day session at the August 2022 ACS Meeting in Chicago. The session covered the InChI standard as well as many extensions to the standard that are under development. The slide decks for these sessions are coming soon.

trust June 9, 2022: InChI Technical Sessions in Cambridge UK June 17-19

Technical sessions were held in person and virtually on June 17-19 for several of the extension projects for the InChI Standard. The topics covered included: organometallics, extended stereochemistry and tautomers. The slide decks are not available at this time. See presentations from the Fall 2022 ACS Meeting.

general, trust April 25, 2022: SciFinder Adds InChI Key to Substance Searching

SciFinder Search Substances Expanded to Include Searching With InChI Key

Chemical Abstracts Service announced that they have added an Advanced Search Field to search substances by InChI Key to SciFinder. InChI Key was added to a new Chemical Identifier subsection along with Chemical Name. Multiple entries must be delimited by a comma, space, or semicolon.

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