Select “Locate” Select “Locate”

Click on “Locate Substances”

Enter the CAS registry number for succinic acid

There are almost 30,000 papers that match our search criteria. To reduce the search result, we can limit the search to the much smaller database of reactions.

To see reaction information only, click on the little green icon at the end of the row.

In this case, let’s limit the search result to reactions in which succinic acid is the product.

I’m particularly curious about biotransformations, so I’ll further refine the search to reactions of that type.

The search result has been reduced to only 53 reactions. Let’s look at all the abstracts that describe those reactions.

There are 44 papers on this topic.

We can limit the search even further by clicking on the “Analyze/Refine” button. We then click on “Research Topic.”

We can now ask that the search be refined by the research topic “glycerol.”

There are only 11 papers that match our final search query. The eighth one looks especially interesting. Next, we’d check the library catalog and list of e-journals. If we don’t have it, then the article can be ordered through interlibrary loan.