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Develop a short but detailed profile of a general class of compounds.
Find available physical and spectroscopic data on a compound.
Find primary literature references for a synthesis of a compound (minimum five reactions).
Physical, Spectroscopic and Synthesis Data
- Merck Index
- A collection of monographs, named reactions, and tables describing significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances.
- Combined Chemical Dictionary
- A searchable database that returns structures, chemical properties, derivatives, and references (including spectral data references).
- CrossFire Beilstein
- The online version of two German handbooks, Beilstein (organic compounds) and Gmelin (inorganic and organometallic compounds). These databases index synthetic methods, structures, and physical properties in the chemical literature from as early as 1771.
- SciFinder Scholar
- Extensive journal article database. Search by topic, author, substance, or reaction. It will return PDF files of articles to which UC Berkeley has online access.
- Science of Synthesis
- A Houben-Weyl search tool for solving synthesis problems
- Organic Syntheses
- A compilation of detailed, reliable, and peer-reviewed synthetic methods for organic compounds.
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- Provides chemical and physical property data on over 40000 compounds from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Profile a Class of Compounds
- AccessScience
- Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
- Chemical technology resource including the properties, manufacturing, and uses of chemicals and materials, processes, and engineering principles.
- Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
- Industrial chemistry resource including polymers, plastics ,metals, alloys and environmental protection.
- PubMed
- A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine with citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles.
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