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General Chemistry Information Sites
For a comprehensive list of Chemistry Web sites and
resources on the Web, see the following sites
- ChemDex
Chemdex is a database containing the names of chemists
and chemistry institutions across the world. There are links to companies,
communication resources, databases as well as academic institutions and
individuals.
It has been constructed in conjunction with the
Royal Society of Chemistry and
the Department of Trade and
Industry and has operated from the
University of
Sheffield
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Links for Chemists
The Chemistry section of The
WWW Virtual Library. Links for Chemists is an index of over 8,225
chemistry resources on the web.
- PSIgate
A Physical sciences gateway/portal of the JISC funded Resource Discovery
Network (RDN). Subjects covered include Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Materials
Science and Physics.
- BUBL
Contains chemistry subject areas such as
data; education;
links; news;
research;
societies;
software.
- Trinity
University Cheminformatics Site
; Electronic
Conferences | Chemistry
on the Internet | Chemical
Stock Prices | Chemistry
Software | Academic
Employment Clearinghouse | Chemists
Email Directory | Chemistry
Graduate Programs | Conference
Listings |
- Chempointers
From UCLA. Links to WWW Chemistry Sites
for :-
- WWW Chemistry Sites
- Academic Institutions
|| Non-profit Organizations
|| Commercial
Organizations ||
- Other Lists
of Chemistry Resources and Related WWW Virtual Libraries ||
- Special
Projects || Publications ||Announcements
- Chemistry
Software Ads || Specialty Ads ||
Chemical Industry Consultants
- Other Chemistry Services
- Chemistry
Gopher Servers || Chemistry FTP Servers
- Chemistry
and Biochemistry USENET News Groups
- Organic
Chemistry Resources Worldwide
From Georgia State University. 'An intuitive
WWW resource guide for synthetic organic chemists' covering Literature;
Chemical Information; Databases; Catalogues; Safety; The Laboratory;
Structural Analysis; Software; Nomenclature.
- Chemistry
Webercises Directory
Contains links to :- Selected Www Chemistry Resources, Properties Of
Substances, Chemistry Facts And Concepts, Applied Chemistry, History
Of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry (Including Spectroscopy And Molecular
Modeling Sites), Chemistry Topics Of Social Concern, Chemistry Directories,
Chemistry Teaching Resources - Exercises, Demos, Puns, Expts., Etc.,
Special Topics In Chemistry, Chemistry Keyword Searches, Information
About Chemistry Webercises.
- Moldata
Information on the following areas of chemistry is available:
- Biochemistry
This index also includes data from molecular biology.
- Organic
Chemistry This index also includes data from medicinal chemistry
and data on small organic molecules of biochemical importance, e.g.
amino acids.
- Physical
Chemistry This index also includes data from chemical physics,
atomic physics, and particle physics.
- TORVS
(Techniques for Organic Reactions, Visualization, and Spectroscopy).
Prof. Gasteiger's research team with links to:
- Services
CORINA
- Obtain quality 3D Coordinates for Chemical Structures.; Images
of Chemical Structures - Computer-generated GIF and PNG images
of chemical structures for WWW pages etc. ; VRML
Scenes of Chemical Structures - Generation of VRML scenes from
your 2D or 3D data files.; OrbVis
- Calculation and 3D Visualization of Molecular Orbitals.;
ComSpec3D
- Calculation and Visualization of IR and Raman Spectra,.
- Software
CACTVS
- Chemical Information System.; CORA
- Classification of Organic Reactions for Applications.; EROS
- Reaction Prediction System.; PETRA
- Calculation of Physicochemical Parameters.; WODCA
- Synthesis Design System.;
- MolSurf
- Visualization of Molecular Surfaces and Molecular Properties as VRML
scenes.
- Mineral
Web - Displays crystal structures of minerals using the Chime
plug-in.
- ChemJOBS.net
A job vacancy site for chemists, biochemists,
pharmaceutical scientists and chemical engineers
- Rolf Claessen's
Chemistry Index
Index of Databases;
Companies;
Software;
Journals;
Used Equipment;
Patents;
Jobs; Reactions;
Web Publishing;
Spectroscopy;
Societies.
- Chemistry Conferences - a comprehensive list of chemistry conferences worldwide.
Chemistry Reference Databases
- PubMed
- provides information (free) on the Biological, Physical and Toxicology properties of small molecules.
- CrossFire Chemical Information System
Comprises CrossFire Beilstein organic chemistry database and the CrossFire Gmelin
inorganic chemistry database. It is hosted by MIMAS and available to users at eligible UK institutions - site license required.
CrossFire Beilstein contains nearlt 10 million compounds, around 10.5 million chemical reaction references, 35 million associated chemical, physical, and biological property records, and over 2 million abstracts and titles indexed from the primary organic chemical
literature since 1980.
CrossFire Gmelin contains more than 800 different chemical and physical data fields for around 2.5 million compounds, with 1.9 million reactions and 1.3 million citations including titles and abstracts from 1995.
- WebElements is a high quality source of chemistry information on the WWW relating to the periodic table.
- American Elements
describes the research and uses of each of the elements, including properties, technical and safety data and research applications. Facts such as the atomic structure, ionization energy, abundance on Earth, conductivity and thermal properties are included as well as information on nanoparticles and salts of the elements such as Chlorides, Bromides, Iodides, Carbonates, Nitrates, Oxides and Sulfates plus solution data.
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- Thermochemical data for over 5,000 organic and small inorganic
compounds
- Reaction thermochemistry data for over 8000 reactions
- IR spectra for over 7,500 compounds
- Mass spectra for over 10,000 compounds
- Electronic/vibrational spectra for over 3,000 compounds
- Constants of diatomic molecules (spectroscopic data) for over
600 compounds
- Ion energetics data for over 14,000 compounds
- Thermophysical property data for 16 fluids
You can search for data on specific compounds in the Chemistry WebBook
based on name, chemical formula, CAS registry number, molecular weight,
or selected ion energetics and spectral properties.
For a list of other Thermodynamic Data and Property Calculation Sites
on the Web go to the Thermodynamics
Research Laboratory site at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- The
NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty @ NIST US
- BIDS RSC
Databases
- Cambridge
Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC) @ Cambridge UK
- Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic
Compounds at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Free access to a
database of some 100,000 spectra (mainly IR, NMR and MS) of organic
compounds.
- The International
Spectroscopic Data Bank. The IS-DB is a charitable society
which has developed an electronic database and archive for
spectroscopic and associated data. All scientists are encouraged to
submit data to the IS-DB, which can then be shared with the rest of
the scientific community who can access it free of charge.
- NMRShiftDB NMRShiftDB is a web database for
organic structures and their NMR spectra. It allows spectral searching
and predicition and is freely available under an open content license.
-
Named Reactions
- The Chemical Thesaurus - Designed to hold information on any process that can be described by a chemical equation of the type X -> Y or A + B -> C.
The present free version is close to comprehensive with respect to: isotopes and major decay pathways, the periodic table, atomic ions, fundamental main group chemistry and fundamental organic chemistry expressed in terms of generic reactions. There are 100 hydrogen reactions and over 500 for water.
- ILPI Material Safety Data SheetsIndex to find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet. lists around 100 sites including the ones below.
- MSDS Online 2,000,000+ Material Safety Data Sheets. Approx 10,000 sheets are added each month. Free registration/login is required to view MSDSs.
- MSDS Solutions 1,500,000 Material Safety Data Sheets. 60 free downloads per year for all users. Free registration/login is required to view the sheets which are available in a variety of MSDS formats (OSHA, ANSI, WHMIS) and file formats (HTML, PDF, text).
- Material Safety Data Sheets @ Oxford UK
- Material Safety Data Sheets at Sigma-Aldrich Nearly 90,000 material safety data sheets (MSDS) from the Sigma-Aldrich family of companies.
- Hazardous chemical database (free access to nearly 2,000 hazardous chemicals based on a keyword search ).
- Specialised Information Services
- NCI-3D -
A database of 126,554 Substances with 2D and 3D
information compiled from the National Cancer Institute, and augmented
by MDL and Chime plugin.
- ChemIDplus
- A database of 350,000 chemical records,
including 56,000 with structures. Locator links allow immediate
searching of other databases for information about a given chemical.
- Hazardous Substances
Databank Structures (HSDB) - A database
of over 4,500 Substances with 2D structural information. These were
compiled from the HSDB
database on TOXNET (see below).
- ChemID
- Search the original NLM ChemID
chemical dictionary and other resources through NLM
. This database does not contain structures.
- National Library of Medicine have a number of database on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. They include
- Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
- Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
- International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER)
- Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information (CCRIS)
- Genetic Toxicology (GENE-TOX)
- Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS)
as well as other TOXNET data.
- IUPAC chemical nomenclature
data base at Queen Mary College, London.
- The Solvents Database
(SOLVDB) developed in collaboration with the National
Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS). Contains data on the physical/chemical
properties, environmental fate, health and safety, and regulations (137
data fields) of chemicals. It was designed to allow the user to view
data on a particular solvent and to select alternatives by comparing
data elements or by finding solvent substitutes in the database that
meet the user's specifications.
- Patents @ Delphion Intellectual
Property Network. Free access to a wide variety of data
collections and patent information including...
- United States patents (1971-present, updated weekly)
- European patents and patent applications (1979-present, updated
weekly)
- PCT application data from the World Intellectual Property Office
(1990-present, updated weekly)
- Patent Abstracts of Japan (1976-present, updated monthly)
- INPADOC
family and legal status data (1968-present, updated weekly)
- IBM Technical Disclosure
Bulletins
- NIH Molecular Modelling
Homepage @ NIH US
- NMRWeb
@ York UK
- Protein Data Bank @ Brookhaven US
- Heavy
Metals @ INDIKATOR GmbH
- Physical Chemistry
American Chemical Society Division of Physical Chemistry Home Page
- Reade Advanced Materials SuperSite
Contains significant general reference, educational & safety information
with over 650 industry links including a Sci-Tech Discount Bookstore.
- MatWeb's database - includes
thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate,
polyester, and polyolefins; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper,
lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys;
ceramics; plus a growing list of semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering
materials.
- Molecule
Library containing 170 common compounds in pdb format.
- Network
Science NetSci's list of Cheminformatics Software - includes Chemical
DB, Reaction DB, Analysis, etc
Chemical Sources
- Sigma-Aldrich Searchable Catalogue
- Sigma, Aldrich, Fluka, Sigma Diagnostics, Supelco and RdH-Lab catalogues
available plus 90,000 MSDS's.
- ZINC Database
- free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening. ZINC contains over 4.6 million compounds in ready-to-dock, 3D formats.
- ChemExper Chemical Dictionary
- search Suppliers Catalogues by formula, name, CAS number, catalog
number, substructure or physical characteristics.
Contains over 200,000 different chemicals, 10,000 MSDS and over 10,000 IR spectra.
- CS ChemFinder WebServer
- free searches (Chemical Name, CAS Number, Molecular Formula or Weight.
) with some restrictions.
- ChemSources - from Chemical
Sources International Inc. Approximately 200,000 compounds. Find any
chemical product free of charge but then must set up an account to obtain
your password to get the supplier information.
- Gelest Inc. - searchable catalogue
of Silanes, Silicones, Germanium, Tin, and Lead compounds, plus metal
alkoxides, diketonates, and carboxylates, together with MSDS data.
- Fine Chemicals - from SpectrumChemical.Com. Over 15,000 fine chemicals to choose from, they offer one of the largest assortments of fine and bulk chemicals available.
UK University Web Sites
Up to date lists of UK University Web Sites can be found at any of
the following three sites:
Chemistry World-Wide Web Sites
General Interest Sites
ChemWeb
Offers a library of leading chemical journals, and databases,
including substructure searchable databases and patents, The
Alchemist, the ChemWeb magazine, A Shopping Mall with software,
equipment, services and book publications, A worldwide Job Exchange
with hundreds of job offers and jobs wanted and A fully searchable
conference diary.
Royal Society of Chemistry
The Learned Society for chemistry and the Professional Body for chemists in the UK. The Society is a major publisher and provider of chemical information, supports the teaching of chemistry at all levels, organises hundreds of chemical meetings a year and is a leader in communicating science to the public.
Chemical Physics Preprint Database
This database is a joint effort by the Department of Chemistry at Brown University and the Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is intended to provide a means for rapid and efficient preprint distribution within the international chemical physics community. It has been made possible by funding from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
Computational Chemistry List
The home page for the computational chemistry list. It includes pointers to the list archives which can be searched.
The Internet Journal of
Chemistry
This e-journal reports latest research findings; points to internet
tools and resources for the chemical community; reviews www sites and
provides an interactive debate and comment platform. Free until the
end of 1998.
MIME Types for Chemistry
A proposal for defining a MIME type for chemistry, to allow for the
transfer of molecule definitions, geometries, properties, etc.
SCARECROW (now gOpenMol) Information
A Description of the program SCARCROW which allows for the graphical
display and analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories.
World
Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC)
A
home page for WATOC includes information on past and future
conferences.
XMol
Information
Online user's guide to XMol, which is
program for displaying 3D molecular models on an X11 display server.
Forensic
Science Information
One of the largest actively maintained
sites that lists every accredited school in forensic science plus other
resources.
Other International Sites
- Israel Chemistry
Directory - includes databases, companies, government agencies,
institutes of higher education, research centers, funds, associations,
and conferences in Israel
- College of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley
-
Department of
Chemistry, Free University of Berlin
- Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
- Chemistry
Department at Brown University
- Department of Chemistry,
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
- Department of Chemistry,
Duke University
- Department of
Chemistry, University of Memphis
- Department of
Chemistry, University of Rhode Island
- Chemistry Department,
University of California, Davis
- Department of Chemistry,
Virginia Tech
- Institute of
Analytical Chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology
- CMBI: Centre for Molecular
and Biomolecular Informatics (formally CAOS/CAMM Center), The
Netherlands
FTP Chemistry Servers
-
FUNET Chemistry Archives
-
The Sheffield Chemistry Software Archives (Macintosh)
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