About Thieme Pharmaceutical Substances

Thieme Pharmaceutical Substances is designed to be a complete reference guide to every pharmaceutical compound of significance. It provides a compendium of some 2300 active pharmaceutical ingredients (API’s) of interest to the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Pharmaceutical Substances is an invaluable resource for anybody involved in the design, discovery, development, and evaluation of drugs.  Pharmaceutical Substances was developed by Axel Kleemann and Jorgen Engel, as a solution to the problems they encountered when creating their own bibliography for laboratory research. As a result these two great research chemists have brought together items of information that, in their experience, are used day-in-day-out by pharmaceutical chemists. Together with their co-authors, Bernhard Kutscher and Dietmar Reichert they have created an indispensable tool for researchers.

Pharmaceutical Substances is accessible through the Internet as a web-based system and is updated on a regular basis. The online version of Pharmaceutical Substance confers many advantages over its print incarnation, making use of the latest developments in information technology. Thieme Publishers’ aim in creating an electronic version of the product is to provide the user with a data source that can be accessed anywhere, at any time, using a standard browser interface. Not only is this product easy to access, it also provides the user with search facilities that allow them to rapidly screen the data for salient entries.