Ready Reference Tools on the Web

Analytical Chemistry Springboard comprehesive listing of web sites providing analytical techniques and information resources.

Basics of NMR includes mathematics of NMR, spin physics, spectroscopy, fourier transforms, pulse sequences, NMR hardware, glossary, and more.

BioTech illustrated dictionary, chemical acronyms database, interactive textbook supplements, links to Web resources.

CAS General Subject Vocabulary Helper enables better searching of CAS by giving broader, narrower, related, and old terms for search words.

Chemical & Physical Property Information Resources compiled by Duke's Chemistry Library. print, online, or Web resources for chemical and physical properties of matter. Call numbers and holdings are unique to Duke; however, many of these resources are available in Reference at CSUEB. Check HAYSTAC for holdings.

Chemical Health and Safety Data includes physical chemical data, toxicity data, handling procedures, emergency procedures, and bibliographic citations for over 200 chemicals.

Classic Organic Reactions drawings for over 300 alphabetically listed organic reactions along with selected literature citations on each.

Integrated Spectral Database System for Organic Compound search by compound, NMR, or MS and display spectra.

Introduction to Basic Organic Nomenclature addresses the how and why of the IUPAC systematic approach to nomenclature and the names of compounds.

IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology includes those on organic class names, stereochemical terminology, physical organic Chemistry, bioinorganic Chemistry, and medicinal Chemistry.

Laboratory Survival Manual guidelines for safely working with chemicals and other materials in the lab.

Materials Safety Data Sheets 325,000 MSDSs. searchable by chemical name. give information on physical & chemical characteristics, fire & explosion hazard data, reactivity data, precautions for safe handling. See also Vermont SIRI MSDS.

NIST Chemistry WebBook provides thermochemical and thermophysical data, spectra. See also the NIST Elemental Data Index. 

NIST Online Reference Databases include atomic spectra, electron interactions with plasma processing gases, isotopic composition, lipid thermotropic phase transitions.

Rare Chemical Samples Exchange Center search for samples by full structure, substructure, name.

Smell Database gives chemical and common names, formulas, sources, smells, and properties of over 40 compounds. is searchable.

WebElements Periodic Table users click on elements' symbols within the periodic table to get CAS Registry IDs, descriptions, isolation information, and more. See also Chemical Elements.com and the Pictorial Periodic Table. 

Web Molecules over 100,000 molecular models. view by category, formula, fragments, valences, orbitals. See also Visualizing Molecules introduction to molecular geometry, binary compounds, hydrocarbons, and more; Molecular Models from Chemistry fragments from birth control and prescription drugs; and  Library of 3-D Molecular Structures. 

Web Reactions search a database of over 30,000 organic reactions.

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