SynGen A program for automatic synthesis generation which focuses on the shortest, most economical routes. Uses a generalized model of organic reactions and functionality to simplify the problem space. Macintosh beta version available for download. http://syngen2.chem.brandeis.edu/syngen.html

SYNCHEM Program for the non-interactive (i.e. without user intervention) discovery of synthetic routes. Information and examples about its inner workings. http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~synchem/

LHASA Group at Harvard University LHASA (Logic and Heuristics Applied to Synthetic Analysis) is among the first programs for retrosynthetic analysis. Also on this page, the DEREK system for toxicology prediction. Available for Silicon Graphics/Irix, and Linux. http://lhasa.harvard.edu/

CAChe Group Provides software to view and predict 3D molecular structure and properties and to analyze the relationship between structure and properties or structure and reactivity. CAChe is a tool for medicinal, polymer, process and synthetic chemists. http://www.cachesoftware.com/

Automatic Organic Chemical Reactions A program based on a mathematical representation of organic synthesis that generates all products of a synthesis on an input of organic compounds. http://www.aocr.ch/index.html

TORVS Research Team Software for reaction prediction, synthesis design, classification of organic reactions, chemical information, calculation of 3D coordinates, and calculation of physicochemical parameters. http://www2.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/software/index.html

Expereact : Electronic Laboratory Notebook Laboratory management program that includes functions for stock keeping, a laboratory notebook, and search tools for products or reactions records. User guide, screen shots, and demo available. http://www.expereact.com

CAMEO Program for the prediction of the mechanism and products of an organic reaction given the starting materials and conditions. Available for Mac, UNIX (SGI/IRIX, IBM/AIX), VAX/VMS, and an applet demo version. Also on this site, software for molecular mechanics, Monte Carlo simulations, structure drawing and visualization. http://zarbi.chem.yale.edu/products/cameo/

Building the Shortest Synthesis Route This article, published in CHEMTECH in 1998, is a nice introduction to the field of Computer-Assisted Organic Synthesis. http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/chemtech/98/sep/buil.html

Afferent Tools for tracking the information associated with combinatorial libraries and parallel medicinal chemistry syntheses. http://www.mdli.com/products/afferent.html

Systematichem Computational organic chemistry software for retrosynthesis and synthesis development. http://www.syschem.com

Organic Synthesis Exploration Tool Free software for computer-assisted organic synthesis, intended mainly for use in education. Applet-based. Source code available. http://ivan.tubert.org/caos/

ChemNomParse Project An open source project to create an IUPAC nomenclature parser. http://chemnomparse.sourceforge.net/

CMBI: LHASA Detailed description about the inner workings of LHASA from the Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics. http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/cheminf/olp/

Yamamoto Group Lewis and Brønsted acid catalysts of super reactivity and selectivity for various organic transformations (Designer Acid Catalysis) http://yamamotogroup.uchicago.edu/