Synthetic and mechanistic organosulfur chemistry

每个发明家都需要一个知识背景数据库，他/她可以从中获取信息。这些信息与发明者的想法、想象力和技能相结合，创造出一种新的工艺或产品。如果信息数据库不能增长，发明者很快就会耗尽对发明难题至关重要的新的智力“原材料”。随着时间的推移，我们的社会将不再在经济、技术或文化上进步。在化学领域，发明通常包括新的药品、材料、食品以及家庭和农场的新产品。发明还可以包括以更经济和/或环境友好的方法生产现有产品的新工艺。例如，化学数据库包含有关基本化学反应和化学成键理论的信息。通常，向数据库提供信息的研究人员无法预测何时或如何将他们的信息用于新的化学发明。

Every inventor requires a background database of knowledge from which he/she draws information. That information is combined with the inventor's idea, imagination and skill to produce a new process or product. If the database of information was not able to grow, inventors would soon run out of new intellectual "raw materials" that are so essential to the inventive puzzle. In time, our society would no longer be economically, technologically or culturally progressive. In the chemical field, inventions often include new pharmaceuticals, materials, food products and new products for the home and farm. Inventions could also include new processes to produce established products by substantially more economical and/or environmentally friendly methods. The chemistry database contains, for example, information regarding fundamental chemical reactions and theories of bonding in chemistry. Often, a researcher contributing to the database is unable to predict when or how their information will be utilized in new chemical inventions.