Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
General Chemistry
- Acronym Database
Acronyms and Abbrevations of Chemical Compound Names
- ACS
American Chemical Society Home Page
- ACS Directory of Graduate Education
The most comprehensive source for information about chemical research and researchers at universities in the U.S. and Canada.
- Chemdex.org
Chemistry-related information in universities, government, companies, societies,
databases, and links to many chemistry and software sites.
- The
Chemical Reference Sources Database [CRSD]
This web interface is designed to allow for easy queries on chemistry reference
materials.
- Chemie.de
German site for chemical information. Provides links to company information,
employment opportunities etc. The useful Toolbox inludes a German/English
Science Dictionary, Acronyms, Unit-Conversion, Molecular Mass Calculator
and more.
- Chemistry
Science Dictionary -- German/English - English/German
- Chemjobs.net
"Chemjobs.net aims to be the leading web site for job vacancies in
chemistry and related areas." It includes information about jobs in
industry and academia around the world, including entry level, research,
post-doctoral, and managerial positions.
- DOE Office
of Basic Energy Sciences. Division of Chemical Sciences
- IUPAC Home Page
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry is a voluntary, nongovernmental,
nonprofit organization of chemists from forty countries. This site is intended
primarily to provide IUPAC nomenclature recommendations. Includes access
to two free on-line naming services, ACD/IUPAC Name and AutoNom.
- OHS Health and Safety Manuals from the CDC
Contains full text manuals on general guidelines for implementing a high quality safety program, specific to the CDC but represent, a code of standard safe work practices at other laboratories. Includes a manual on Chemical Safety.
- Periodic
Table (Shockwave)
This periodic table which appears courtesy of W. H. Freeman Inc., includes
element information such as mass, radius, density etc., plus orbital data
and plots of some of the elemental properties. You will need the Shockwave
plug-in in order to view this periodic table.
- Selected Internet
Resources for Chemistry (SIRCh)
SIRCh will help you find and learn how to use chemistry information resources
on the Internet and elsewhere.
- The Vermont SIRI MSDS collection
Searchable by manufacturer and/or by product name.
- WebElements
A periodic table on the web. Includes atomic number, atomic weight, CAS
number, and more.
- What
every CHEMIST should know about PATENTS
Analytical Chemistry
- Merck
KGaA Chromatography Homepage
Not just a sales vehicle--contains real information.
- NMRShiftDB
“NMRShiftDB is a web database for organic structures and their nuclear
magnetic resonance (nmr) spectra. It allows for spectrum prediction (currently
only for carbon) as well as for searching spectra, structures and other
properties.”
- SDBS
SDBS (Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds) is an
integrated spectral database system of 30,000 organic compounds, which includes
6 different types of spectra (MS, 13C NMR, 1H NMR, ESR, IR, Raman). At present
data from 1H NMR, 13C NMR, Mass and IR databases are available on WWW. Most
of the spectra are measured at the National Institute of Materials and Chemical
Research, Japan. The master files of the MS, 1H NMR-pattern, IR and Raman
spectra are constructed by direct transfer of the digital data from the
spectrometers. All the databases contain the spectral patterns. The system
may be searched by compound name, molecular formula, no. of atoms, molecular
weight, CAS Registry no., or SDBS no.
See also Properties / Reactions / Data below, for
molecular spectra and other data.
Biochemistry
Chemical Engineering
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
(AICHE)
The homepage of AIChE is a nonprofit organization that provides leadership
in the chemical engineering profession.
- Chemical Engineering
Searchable archives of over 10 years of Chemical Engineering, includes
some current issue articles, news and events.
- Chemical
& Engineering News Online
Searchable archive of C&E News articles, salary survey.
- Chemical Engineering
Faculty Directory
Search by name, institution or geographical location.
- Chemical Week
Includes chemical industry news, five years of full-text Chemical Week articles, and lists of chemical suppliers and prices.
- Current Industrial
Reports
Production statistics for the chemical and manufacturing industries.
- Petroleum Engineering
- Advanced Fuels Property Database
- American Petroleum Institute
- Fossil Energy:
DOE's Methane Hydrate R&D Program
This Web site provides information about goals and projects.
- Introduction
to Gas Hydrates
This page explains hydrates to those interested in phase equilibria in
systems containing water and natural gas. A list of references to related
sites is included.
- Office of Pipeline Safety
US Department of Transport's Office of Pipeline Safety regulatory program
to assure safe transportation of petroleum, natural gas and other hazardous
material by pipeline.
- SPE Technical Paper Index
Includes more than 25,000 technical papers on petroleum engineering and
related topics submitted to the Society of Petroleum Engineers from 1951
through 1994. Searchable by author, title, year, publication, or SPE paper
number. Brief bibliographic details are provided (author, title, SPE paper
number); full text papers can be ordered.
- United States Environmental
Protection Agency. Sector Facility Indexing Project
SFIP produces profiles for five US industry sectors (petroleum refining,
iron & steel production, primary nonferrous metal refining & smelting,
pulp manufacturing, and automobile assembly). The information relates
to compliance and inspection history, chemical releases and spills, demographics
of the surrounding population and production.
Inorganic Chemistry / Crystallography
- American Crystallographic Association
Provides information about the ACA and other crystallographic societies
plus links to funding sources, jobs, and more.
- American Mineralogist
Crystal Structure Database
“This site is an interface to a crystal structure database that includes
every structure published in the American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist,
and the European Journal of Mineralogy. We are now importing data from Physics
and Chemistry of Minerals. The database is maintained under the care of
the Mineralogical Society of America and the Mineralogical Association of
Canada, and financed by the National Science Foundation.”
- Database of Zeolite Structures
Includes the Atlas of Zeolite Framework Types, powder diffraction patterns
and zeolite structure references.
- Indiana University Molecular Structure
Center -- Crystallography
Allows rapid access to data generated in the IUMSC. To take full advantage
of this server, you must be using a viewer that can read JavaTM applets.
- IUCr Crystallography
World Wide
Crystallography World Wide (CWW) provides extensive coverage of current
internet-based information on crystallography. This page supplies information
on the International Union of Crystallography, its Commissions and Regional
Associates, and its journals and other publications.
- Mineralogy Database
Mineralogy Database contains more than 4000 minerals. Includes Crystallography,
X-ray powder diffraction, and chemical composition.
Organic Chemistry
- Beilstein Abstracts
Beilstein Abstracts is now available on the web. You must register at ChemWeb.com
to get access to the database. "Users are able to access titles, abstracts
and citations from the top journals in organic and related chemistry, published
from 1980 to the present. There are currently approximately 600,000 articles
in the Beilstein Abstracts Database."
- Glossary of Organic Class
Names
Class names of organic compounds and reactive intermediates based on structure.
- Organic Compounds
Database
This database has a search engine that allows you to find organic compounds
based on physical properties such as melting and boiling points, molecular
weight, index of refraction, formula, and spectral data.
- Organic Chemistry Resources
Worldwide
An intuitive Internet resource guide for synthetic organic chemists.
- PubChem
"PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and
information on their biological activities...
PubChem is organized as three linked databases within the Entrez/PubMed information
retrieval system. These are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and
PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides PubChem Structure Search You
can search for compounds, structures, bioassays using either text or
structure searching..."
Photochemistry
- European Photochemistry Association
(EPA)
The Association encompasses aspects of numerous areas related to the interdisciplinary
character of photochemistry such as photophysics, photography, photobiochemistry,
spectroscopy and radiation chemistry.
- Inter-American Photochemical
Society
The Inter-American Photochemical Society has over 500 members in academia,
industry, and government throughout North and South America.
- Photobiology Online
A cooperative presentation of the European and American Societies for Photobiology.
- Photochemistry Database
On line collection of current literature in photochemistry and related fields
for 1996 and 1997.
- Photosynthetic
Reaction Centres of Purple Bacteria
Includes prosthetic group features, scheme of electron transfer in photosynthetic
membranes, photosynthetic reaction centres (PRC) in motif databases, PRC
in alignment databases, PRC in 3-D databases, references.
- Photochemistry
at the RCDC
“The scope of the mission of the Radiation Chemistry Data Center (RCDC)
was expanded in 1978 to include the collection of papers containing quantitative
data on photophysical and photochemical processes. … Data compilations
currently derive from three main areas: Excited (Organic) Triplet States,
Metal Complex Excited State Quenching, and Singlet Molecular Oxygen.”
See also Physical Chemistry below.
Physical Chemistry
- ACS Division of Nuclear Chemistry
and Technology
- Electrochemical Science and
Technology Information Resource (ESTIR)
This site was developed mainly from the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
file of the sci.chem.electrochem newsgroup.
- NDRL Radiation Chemistry Data Center
An information resource dedicated to the collection, evaluation, and dissemination
of data characterizing the reactions of transient intermediates produced
by radiation chemical and photochemical methods.
- Radiation Chemistry Data Center
The Radiation Chemistry Data Center of the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory
is an information resource dedicated to the collection, evaluation, and
dissemination of data characterizing the reactions of transient intermediates
produced by radiation chemical and photochemical methods.
- Table of
Radioactive Isotopes
Includes atomic data (X-rays and Auger electrons, very preliminary!), periodic
chart interface to the nuclides, summary drawings for A=1-277 (PDF), nuclear
charts (PDF) and the ability to search by energy, mass number, half-life,
etc.
Properties / Reactions / Data
- CAS Number Search
Allows you to search by CAS number and find extensive information about
chemicals including molecular weights, synonyms, structure, and spectras,
either mass or infrared.
- ChemExper Chemical Directory
Can be searched by registry number, molecular formula, chemical name or
synonyms. Also searchable by properties like melting point, density, refractive
index, etc. Has an easy-to-use structure/substructure search feature. Provides
physical and chemical characteristics and structures. Some MSDS and supplier
information is also included.
- ChemFinder Searching
A search engine that allows you to search for chemicals by name, formula,
molecular weight, melting point, boiling point, CAS registry number, or
structure. It gives references to EPA codes, DOT number, and RTECS number,
as well as links to additional property and regulatory information.
- ChemIDplus
“ChemIDplus is a database of 367,975 chemical records, including over
203,000 with structures. Locator links allow immediate searching of other
databases for information about a given chemical. … A new ChemIDplus
Lite version is available for Name and RN searching without the need
for plugins or applets. “
- Landolt-Börnstein
Includes the complete Tables of Contents of all Landolt-Bornstein volumes
published. Free access to the fulltext of 129 subvolumes out of a total
147 subvolumes published up to 1990 is available for the year 2000 as part
of Springer-Verlag's Millennium Campaign. To access the fulltext, complete
the Link Access Registration Form to get a special test access code used
for fulltext access authorization. Fulltext files are in PDF.
- Materials
Properties Locator Database
Database created by the Science and Engineering Library of the State University
of NY at Buffalo; matches properties data (mechanical, physical, electrical,
thermal, etc.) with reference books.
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
A great site that allows you to search for chemicals by name, molecular
weight, full or partial molecular formulas, CAS registry number, ionization
energy, or proton affinity. Lots of information available about chemicals,
including regulatory information and pointers to other sources of information.
- NIST Data Gateway
A listing of over 70 free searchable property databases available from NIST. Includes spectral, solubility, ceramic, and x-ray data.
- Physical Reference
Data
From the NIST Physics Laboratory. Several online databases in the areas
of physical constants, atomic and molecular spectroscopic data, and x-ray
and gamma-ray data are listed on this page.
- Sigma-Aldrich
Product search
There is a lot of information available at this site, such as Synonyms,
Molecular Formula, Molecular Weight, CAS Number, Density, EC Number, Melting
Point, Boiling Point, Refractive Index, Flash Point, and NMR, IR and Raman
spectra. Searchable by name, molecular formula etc. Access to MSDS information
requires registration, but it’s free.
- SOLV-DB (Solvents Database)
The purpose of SOLV-DB is to help you find a wide variety of data on solvents
quickly and easily.
- ThermoDex
This database contains records for over 100 printed handbooks and compilations
of thermodynamic and thermophysical data for chemical compounds. It enables
you to enter both a type of compound and a property, and will return a list
of books that may contain this data. Caution: All of these items may not
be available at ANL, and if they are, the call numbers may be different.
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