Mol files and chemical structures

Tetrahedron survey on MOL Files

Do you find it easy to search for chemical compounds online? In Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters it is now possible to enrich online articles by providing details of chemical structures in MOL files. Elsevier uses these files to generate InChIKeys to improve compound and article searchability (see http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/using/searching-linking/reaxys/).

In order to improve our service, Elsevier is interested in your experience with producing chemical structures and MOL files and submitting them. We would be grateful for your help in completing this short survey.

Thank you for your time.

Diddel Francissen
Publisher, Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters

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* 1. Which Chemical Structure editor do you use?

Accelrys Draw

Bioclipse

ChemDoodle

ChemDraw

JChemPaint

JME Molecular Editor

PubChem

Marvin

Other (please specify)

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* 2. What is the version number of the Chemical Structure editor that you use?

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* 3. Do you use InChIKeys to search for chemical structures?

Yes

If "No", why not? How do you search for chemical structures?

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* 4. Did you know you could submit MOL files to Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters?

Yes

Comment

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* 5. Have you submitted MOL files to Tetrahedron or Tetrahedron Letters?

Yes (please go to question 6)

No (please go to question 7)

Comment

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* 6. What was your experience of submitting MOL files?
(more than one reply possible)

Creation of the MOL files was difficult

Creation of the MOL files was easy

Submission of the MOL files was easy

I was unsure when and how to upload my MOL files

Submission of MOL files was difficult

The MOL files slowed down the total submission process

How could we improve the submission process?

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* 7. If you answered "No" to question 5, why did you not submit MOL files?

I did not know of this service

I had no suitable files

My files are in a different format

I tried but failed to submit the files

I do not use MOL files

Other (please specify)

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* 8. If you did not know before that you could submit MOL files, will you submit MOL files with your next paper?

Yes

If not, why not?

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* 9. Do you have any suggestions about how we could improve the submission and presentation of chemical structures for our online articles?

Allow submission of more file formats

3D visualisations

Downloadable figures

Other (please specify)

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* 1. Which Chemical Structure editor do you use?

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* 2. What is the version number of the Chemical Structure editor that you use?

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* 3. Do you use InChIKeys to search for chemical structures?

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* 4. Did you know you could submit MOL files to Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters?

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* 5. Have you submitted MOL files to Tetrahedron or Tetrahedron Letters?

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* 6. What was your experience of submitting MOL files?(more than one reply possible)

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* 7. If you answered "No" to question 5, why did you not submit MOL files?

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* 8. If you did not know before that you could submit MOL files, will you submit MOL files with your next paper?

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* 9. Do you have any suggestions about how we could improve the submission and presentation of chemical structures for our online articles?

* 6. What was your experience of submitting MOL files?
(more than one reply possible)