Literature Databases & Encyclopedias
Chemistry Literature
- SciFinder-n (Cornell subscription): comprehensive coverage of literature in chemistry and related fields, including articles, patents, characterized chemicals, chemical reactions, and commercial sources. (Register first, use your Cornell email)
- Reaxys (Cornell subscription): web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, reactions and property data, compiled from over 200 years of literature.
- PubMed (Free/Open): provides access to over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
Chemical Synthesis
- Organic Reactions (Cornell subscription): searchable collection of important synthetic reactions, critical discussion and and representative experimental conditions.
- OrgSyn (Free/Open): eetailed and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds.
- e-EROS, Encyclopedia of Organic Reagents (Cornell subscription): reagents used in organic chemistry, including oxidizing agents, transition metal organometallic reagents, enzymatic reagents, catalysts, protecting groups, peptide reagents and many more.
Chemical Engineering & Analysis
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (Cornell subscription): covers chemical technology in the areas of agricultural chemicals; chemical engineering; coatings and inks; drugs, cosmetics, and biomaterials; ecology and industrial hygiene; food and animal nutrition; industrial organic and inorganic chemicals; and plastics and elastomers.
- Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC International (Cornell subscription): international source of standard chemical and microbiological methods of analysis. (Requires login, contact Chemistry Librarian)
Chemical Property Data
Physical Properties
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
- Chemistry Webbook (Free/Open)
- NIST SRD (Free/Open)
- Knovel Engineering
- MatNavi (Free/Open)
- MatWeb (Free/Open)
- Thermodex (Index): index of hardcopy handbooks searchable by property and compound class with nearest library locator.
Biological Properties
- Merck Index
- PubChem (Free/Open) (API)
- BRENDA, the Comprehensive Enzyme Information System (Free/Open)
- EPA Chemistry Dashboard (Free/Open)
Crystal data
- CSD / Cambridge Structural Database (Software, contact Chemistry Librarian)
- ICSD Web / Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
- Protein Data Bank (Free/Open)
Spectral data
- Spectral Database for Organic Compounds (Free/Open)
- SpectraBase (Free/Open)
- KnowItAll Anyware (Software, contact Chemistry Librarian)
- MassBank (Free/Open)
- MassBank Europe (Free/Open)
- MassBank Japan (Free/Open)
- MassBank of North America (Free/Open)
Chemical structures (in addition to sources above)
- ChemSpider (Free/Open)
- CAS Common Chemistry (Free/Open)
- CACTUS (Free/Open): Chemoinformatics Tools and User Services
- Chemdraw (Software, contact Chemistry Librarian)