• Organic synthetic methodology has developed and flourished during the end of the 20th century and has placed heavy demands on the broad range of scientists who utilize chemical reagents. There exists a vital need to know which reagent will perform a specific transformation.
• The goal of e-EROS is to serve as an online reference work where the retrievability of useful information concerning any specific reagent is made facile.
• Every article contains where possible: (a) exemplary transformations recognized for this reagent (with illustrations); (b) comparison of its specific properties with those of other agents capable of equivalent chemistry (with illustrations); stereo-, regio-, and enantio-control qualifications of the reagent in those examples where this information is pertinent (with illustrations); and (c) cautions necessarily associated with use of this reagent, where applicable.
• For the purpose of this work a reagent is defined as an agent or a combination of agents which, with some generality, effects the transformation of a substrate into a product.
• e-EROS allows retrieval of the structural information by substructure searches and links these search results with the text part of the work which is displayed on the screen.
• All chemical and structural queries allow complete structure, substructure, reaction substructure, reaction type, and reaction related field searching. e-EROS uses ISIS/Draw for the input of structural queries such as structures, substructures, and reactions.
• e-EROS is accessible via Wiley InterScience, the website for journals and databases published by John Wiley & Sons.