Chemistry Links

• UNH Chemistry Department General Information
• Online Outlines, CHEM 400 Library Talks
• Help and Documentation for Chemistry Resources (WebCSD, ChemDraw, SciFinder, Reaxys, etc.)
• Current Awareness for Chemists

• Analytical Abstracts -- produced by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Offers comprehensive coverage of analytical chemistry information (1978-present). You can search by analytes, matrices and by concept (techniques, physico-chemical parameters, instruments, etc.). Accessible via Analytical WebBase, this offers indexing of 230 journals, with full coverage of 50 journals, as well as selected books and other information. Abstracts and citations only.



• Cambridge Structural Database, Web version. Also known as WebCSD, this is the world repository of small molecule crystal structures, with over 500,000. It records bibliographic, chemical, and crystallographic information for organic molecules and metal-organic compounds whose 3D structures have been determined by X-ray or neutron diffraction. Produced by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, it is associated with additional software for database access, structure visualization and data analysis, and knowledge bases derived from the structure database. A client version is also available.



• ChemDraw -- chemical structure drawing software, from CambridgeSoft. UNH has a site license for ChemDraw Standard. This includes Struct=Name, ChemDraw/Excel and ChemNMR. Stereochemically correct structures can be created from chemical names, IUPAC names can be created for structures, and NMR spectra can be estimated from a ChemDraw structure with direct atom-to-spectral correlation. To download: users must enter their @unh.edu email address into the initial screen for authentication; then click 'Continue' to start the download process and follow instructions. In case of download issues, contact the UNH Chemistry Library. Access: Download available to UNH faculty, staff, and students; walk-in users may use software on Chemistry Library computers. Documentation includes the User Help within ChemDraw, plus plug-ins, manuals and more online at CambridgeSoft DesktopSupport--Documentation; users must sign in to view.


Crossfire: Crossfire Beilstein and Gmelin were discontinued by the database producer. Please see Reaxys, below. If you are in need of the original Beilstein or Gmelin handbooks, the volumes are available upon request; please check with Bob Constantine at the Chemistry Library or Emily Poworoznek.
Autonom 4.0 is still available on CD at the Chemistry Library. Questions? Please ask Bob Constantine at the Chemistry Library or Emily Poworoznek.


• Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds (DIOC)
  Produced by Chapman & Hall/CRC, DIOC includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of the elements plus 101,000 representative organometallic, inorganic, and coordination compounds; with names and synonyms literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. A plug-in for structure queries is available from the DIOC site. DIOC is made available by UNH Library subscription. You can use it anywhere on the UNH campus, or off-campus with a UNH ID number.



• JCE Web Software
  Produced by the Journal of Chemical Education (ACS), this wonderful resource for chemistry students includes demonstrations, interactive exercises, images and explanations. JCE Web Software is made available by UNH Chemistry Department subscription. You can use it anywhere on the UNH campus, or off-campus via Blackboard (go to the Library tab and access through the Database List or Catalog by title.



• Reaxys -- Reaxys, from Elsevier, is a Web-based resource that incorporates data from Beilstein and Gmelin, including property, reaction and bibliographic data, as well as additional current data for organic and inorganic chemistry. It has special functionality to assist with synthetic chemistry. It does not replace SciFinder Scholar for chemical literature searching, but acts as a complement that allows you to search and retrieve data in different ways.



• SciFinder Web -- this powerful, online version of the premier literature resource for chemistry, Chemical Abstracts, is available for UNH faculty, staff, and students (use for non-commercial purposes only). SciFinder Web requires registration: UNH SciFinder Registration. See also UNH Library SciFinder info. SciFinder is produced by the Chemical Abstracts Division (CAS) of the American Chemical Society. For CAS tutorials and documentation, see Online Help.
  
  
• Web of Science offers literature searching across disciplines by author, topic, and uniquely, by cited reference. This allows you to find journal articles that cited a known article. Searches can be limited to Science Citation Index. At "Web of Knowledge" page, select Web of Science, then choose "Full Search." After you perform a search, a list of the titles of the articles are returned. Click an article title to view the full record, which includes the title, author, bibliographic information, abstract, and more. From a full record, you can view lists of the article's references, articles that cite the article, or articles that are related to the article. There are links to library holdings, not usually to full text. Science coverage is from 1977-present; many cited references are earlier.



• WebCSD -- see Cambridge Structural Database, above. The sources above are selected as especially relevant for Chemistry.
  For a full list of the UNH Library's online databases, click here.

• ACSWeb from the American Chemical Society
• BRENDA -- comprehensive enzyme database from Technische Universität Braunschweig (free to noncommercial users)
• C & E News (limited access)
• ChemDB from the University of California at Irvine
• Chemfinder
• Chemical Information Sources -a thorough list of annotated links to major chemical info sources, originally created by Gary Wiggins at Indiana University
• U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board:  An federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents. Web site includes current and completed investigation reports, investigation digests, safety publications, recommendations, etc.
• Chemistry 2000 (Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory)
• ChemSpider (Royal Society of Chemistry) -- a repository of searchable compound data, including structures and predicted properties. Includes nearly 25M compounds from almost 400 data sources. Chemists are invited to contribute their structures, spectra, and syntheses, and to participate in data curation.
• Chmoogle,search with SMILES
• Citing sources (in Chemistry): The best citation style resource for Chemistry is in print:
  The ACS Style Guide, 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2006. Copies of the 3rd and 2nd editions are available at the Chemistry Library. For more information, click here.
  Related material:
  A Quick Guide to Citing Using the ACS Style Guide, 3rd ed
by Nan Butkovich at Penn State.
How do you cite URL's in a bibliography?
• Directory of Graduate Research from the ACS
• Envirofacts Warehouse (U.S. EPA)
• MSDS for UNH (CEMS)
• MSDS on the Internet
• NIST Chemistry WebBook
• IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
• PubMed
• SDBS: Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds-- Produced by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), this includes data for six types of spectra: EI mass spectrometry (over 20,000 compounds), hydrogen NMR, 13C NMR, FT-IR (over 49,000 spectra), and some ESR and Raman spectra. Access is freely available; users are asked to download no more than 50 spectra per day. If data is used, acknowledgement is requested, such as: SDBSWeb: http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS/ [access date].
• Visual Elements-- a visual periodic table from the Royal Chemical Society
• WebElements -- periodic table and chemical properties
• What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents

• Science.gov, a broad gateway for finding public, scientific U.S. government websites and documents contributed by 14 federal agencies.
• TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library: a growing digital archive with a goal of providing persistent, unrestricted access to early U.S. federal technical reports (most prior to 1982). This is an academic collaboration that is not crosslinked to the federal government search engines. As of Spring 2009, this holds 1000+ reports in fulltext and is an excellent source for National Bureau of Standards Monographs.
• United States Patent and Trademark Office -- the full patent database. YOu can use free Alternatiff software (www.alternatiff.com) to view full patent images in TIF format.

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  This page last updated February 2012