Cambridge Structure Databank

Below we briefly outline details of some of the more important chemical databases available. All these databases are commercial and require registration and payment of an annual fee to use, although in the UK the Cambridge Structural Database and REACCS are available free to the academic community as part of the Chemical Databank Service (CDS) based at Daresbury, Warrington. In general access to such databases will vary from institute to institute and as there are a wide range of different chemistry databases potentially accessible you should ask at your library for a list of those available to you. It is not possible to describe the operation of all the databases here, but you should be able to get help from your librarians or your supervisor and learn how these very powerful tools can help you. 

In this work, details of the receptor, particularly if it forms part of an enzyme, may be obtainable from the Cambridge or the Bropkhaven crystal-structure databanks (see Section 17.4). 

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