SAN DIEGO, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus Synthesis LLC and eMolecules, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a collaboration to establish an online catalog of chemical structures with eCommerce functionality. This will allow Focus Synthesis to offer its customers the ability to search their catalog by chemical structure and place orders for lists of chemicals online. eMolecules will use their novel internet search technology based on the "Advanced Search" function of http://www.emolecules.com/ and a newly developed eCommerce component.

"We are pleased to enter into this partnership with eMolecules, which will augment our ability interact with our customers using chemical structures, the preferred language of chemists," said President and chief executive officer Darryl Rideout of Focus Synthesis LLC. "We plan to jointly develop additional cheminformatics tools and make them available to our customers. This will enhance their ability to rationally select the right building blocks for their research projects, and it will help us grow our business."

"We are excited about this collaboration with Focus Synthesis, an innovative supplier of rationally selected chemicals," said President and chief executive officer Klaus Gubernator of eMolecules. "Focus Synthesis has been an early adopter of our public search engine http://www.emolecules.com/ by including their catalog in the global database as well as advertising on this popular web site."

Focus Synthesis is a new research chemical supplier that uses rational, chemoinformatics-based principles in the design of chemical building blocks that are ideally suited for DOS (diversity-oriented synthesis). Focus Synthesis products include members of unique and underrepresented substructure classes, building blocks designed for thorough property space coverage, and precursors for highly focused combinatorial libraries. The mission of Focus Synthesis is to provide tool sets for discovering the drugs of the future by optimizing diversity and enabling comprehensive single-site and isosteric changes in biologically active small molecules that result in optimal SAR knowledge.

eMolecules, Inc. has created the world's leading free open-access chemistry search engine. The company's mission is to discover, curate and index all of the public chemical information in the world, and make it available to all scientists. eMolecules distinguishes itself by extremely fast searches, an appealing presentation of results, and high-quality chemical drawings. Founded in 2005 and located in San Diego County, with offices in London, it has rapidly become the world's most popular public chemistry search engine. eMolecules offers custom web search engines for databases and catalogs of chemical structures, including complete eCommerce solutions for chemical suppliers that host offerings of any size.

CONTACT: Darryl Rideout, CEO of Focus Synthesis LLC,
+1-858-688-3838, focus_synthesis@focussynthesis.com; or Klaus Gubernator, CEO
of eMolecules, Inc., +1-858-764-1941, or fax, +1-858-764-1917,
info@emolecules.com

Web site: http://www.focussynthesis.com/

Web site: http://www.emolecules.com/