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Biotage^® PathFinder
Access thousands of microwave reactions through a single database 

Biotage PathFinder is the world’s largest online database of established methods for microwave synthesis. The new web-based format offers chemists worldwide access to more than 3800 diverse microwave methods. Using a simple keyword and/or substructure search, it is fast and easy to find microwave conditions for your reactions, along with experimental details. Monthly updates are contributed from scientific partners and recent literature. Reactions are checked for accuracy and ambiguous processes are verified with authors directly, a level of cross-checking unique to the Biotage PathFinder.

Biotage PathFinder Data Coverage: 2000 – present Focus: Microwave synthesis with explicit experimental details Source: Approximately 70% Biotage internal unpublished results; 15% contributions from scientific partners; 15% published data Size: more than 3,800 reactions Subscription will provide you with:  Low cost annual access to a growing database of microwave reactions Suitable conditions and starting points for a variety of microwave assisted reactions Access to unpublished microwave transformations Full documentation on substrates, solvents, reagents and catalysts with quantities, experimental procedure including workup details and analytical data Monthly updates of contents with new diverse microwave reactions

Biotage PathFinder Cookbook
The cookbook will provide you a FREE taste of the microwave reactions in the Biotage PathFinder. Select from the list of reaction examples for a sampling.

Examples of Reactions

• Suzuki Coupling
• Heck Coupling
• Wittig Olefin synthesis
• Amidation
• Reductive Amination
• Reduction
• Oxidation
• Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution
• Multicomponent reactions
• Arbuzov Reaction
• Knoevenagel Condensation... and more...

Additional Features

Ask-a-Chemist
This feature allows chemists to get quick answers to their questions directly from a Biotage chemist experienced in microwave synthesis.

Vapor-Pressure Calculator
This feature allows rapid calculation of the vapor pressure for some common solvents at different temperatures.

Prediction Chart and Time Converter
A tool to help chemists estimate the temperature required to run a microwave reaction in a shorter period of time based on conventional temperature and time.