CAS chemistry data comes to Microsoft 365 Copilot

CAS, the scientific information division of the American Chemical Society, has made its data available inside Microsoft 365 Copilot. The connector, announced Oct. 20, gives Copilot customers access to the CAS Content Collection and CAS Newton, the company’s agentic AI assistant, from apps including Word, Teams and PowerPoint, CAS says. It extends CAS Connections, an integration framework CAS launched in June that also supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard Anthropic introduced in November 2024.

CAS pitches the connector at work that happens outside the lab, in documents, chats and slide decks. In the release, CAS describes a chemist drafting the experimental section of a report in Word who can confirm a compound’s CAS Registry Number and structure, check reaction conditions and reagent availability against CAS records, and cite the source while writing. An intellectual property analyst in Teams can check whether a substance appears in the patent…