Research Guides: Chemical Engineering: More Online Resources

Structure Drawing Programs

ACD Chem Sketch
Avogadro
Avogadro is an application purely for scientists and students that have to draw three-dimensional molecular compositions that showing a molecule from every conceivable angle and perspective.
KnowItAll (r) Academic Edition
MarvinSketch
Advanced Chemical Structure Drawing Software
Pubchem Drawing Window
Symyx Draw

Mobile Apps In Chemistry and Related Science

List of Resources for the iPhone or iPad
SciFinder Mobile
Can be used with any smartphone
Chemistry on Mobile Devices
A list compiled by Andrea Twiss-Brooks of the Univ of Chicago

Selected Online Resources

Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
Provided by Free University-Berlin.
Academic Chemistry Departments in the United States
Compiled by Chuck Huber of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Academic Chemistry Departments Outside the United States
Compiled by Chuck Huber of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Academic Earth
Provides a list of free online lectures and courses in chemistry.
ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
Covers all instructions from previous editions of The ACS Style Guide as well as chapters covering preprints, Open Access, machine-readable data, and much more.
Aldrich - Structure and Substructure Tool
Can search structures in the Aldrich Catalog
American Chemical Society
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Analytical Sciences Digital Library

ASM Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Alternate Name(s): American Society for Metals Information
Provides convenient access to the world's largest collection of information and data on the composition, structure, properties, processing, performance, and evaluation of engineering materials.

BuyersGuideChem
A directory of suppliers of chemicals and chemical products.
Cambridge Structural Database
A database containing comprehensive data for organic and metal-organic compounds studied by X-ray and neutron diffraction.
CASSI
Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index. A free tool to quickly identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS.
ChemExper.com
Search for over 600,000 products from over 400 suppliers
Chemical Abstracts Service
CAS identifies, aggregates, and organizes all publicly disclosed chemistry information.
Chemical Consultants Network
Search for a consultant with expertise in different areas.
Chemical Industry Home Page
Links to industry associations. news and company websites.
Chemicalize.org
A free online service developed by ChemAxon which adds chemistry to web pages as well as data and web pages to structures.
Chemical Register
An online chemical buyers guide.
Chemistry Explained
A very basic encyclopedia of chemical principles.
Chemistry Reference
Provides capsules on many topics in chemistry. Additionally, there are reference tables and profiles of every element and thousands of compounds.
Chemspider
A free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 26 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
Chemspider Slideshow
Slideshow presentation on the use of ChemSpider by Antony Williams.
Chemspider Synthetic Pages
A free database of practical synthetic procedures that can be searched by reaction name, author name, or substance. Chemists may submit synthetic procedures that are new, well-known, published or unpublished.
ChemSynthesis
This website contains substances with their synthesis references and physical properties such as melting point, boiling point and density.
Common Chemistry
A web resource that contains CAS Registry Numbers for approximately 7,900 chemicals of widespread general public interest.
Crystallography Open Database
Open-access collection of crystal structures of organic, inorganic, metal-organic compounds and minerals, excluding biopolymers.
Depth First
A blog listing 32 free chemistry databases
E-Molecules
Find Suppliers and Information for over 8 Million Unique Chemicals
Electrochemistry Knowledge Base
Created and maintained by Dr. Zoltan Nagy, retired from Argonne National Laboratory
Engineering Tool Box
Tools and Basic Information for Design, Engineering and Construction of Technical Applications. Includes information of interest to chemical engineers.
Essential Chemical Industry
This is a reference library of the world’s principal industrial chemicals, their uses and their manufacture using current industrial processes and innovations.
German-English, English-German Chemistry Dictionary
Compiled at Stanford University
Glossary of Chemistry Terms
Compiled at Frostburg University
Hazardous Substance Data Bank
Provided by the National Library of Medicine
InChI
A website dedicated to the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier aka InChI
Institution of Chemical Engineers
IUPAC Gold Book
A chemistry dictionary
MOPAC
MOPAC (Molecular Orbital PACkage) is a semiempirical quantum chemistry program based on Dewar and Thiel's NDDO approximation. It is free to academics.
Nucleic Acids Database
Contains information about experimentally-determined nucleic acids and complex assemblies. Provided by Rutgers University
Organic Chemistry Portal
Organic Syntheses Web Site and Database
Free service providing detailed experimental methods for the synthesis of organic compounds. You must have downloaded and installed the latest ChemDraw Plugin to use this service
Periodic Table of the Elements
Provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Periodic Table of the Elements
Interactive periodic table provided by Web Elements.
Periodic Table of the Elements
Interactive periodic table provided by Chemicool.
Protein Data Bank
A repository for the three-dimensional structural data of large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids

PubChem (NIH: National Library of Medicine) This link opens in a new window
World's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Searchable by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers.

Publishing Your Research in Chemistry - Practical Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers
A series of videos produced by the American Chemical Society
Quantitites, Units and Symbolsin Physical Chemistry published by IUPAC
R&D Chemicals
A database of suppliers of rare organic chemicals
Royal Society of Chemistry
Synthetic Pages (from Chemspider)
A freely available interactive database of synthetic chemistry. ChemSpider SyntheticPages encourages submissions from graduate students, postdocs, industrialists and academics.
Unit Converter
Unit Converter (Provided by Knovel)
Web Reactions
An organic reaction retrieval system.
Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer
Searches the Wikipedia by Chemical Structure

Selected Guides to Chemistry Resources on the Web

Chemical Databases - Category from Wikipedia
List of Chemistry Related Databases
Chemical Information Sources Wiki
Chemistry Guide
The directory and search engine of chemistry related resources on the Internet
Patents and Patentability
Written by science librarians at the University of Minnesota