This guide is designed to help you get started on your Chemistry research. Use this guide to find books, journal articles, and additional resources such as handbooks, spectra, and chemical safety information.
Contact info
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Highlighted resources
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Physical & Chemical Properties Finder
Resources to help you find chemical and physical properties. -
Reaxys
Drawn from Beilstein and Gmelin, Reaxys provides experimental data, in organic, inorganic and organometalic chemistry. -
SciFinder
Standard database to find chemical information. -
Web of Science
Science citation index covering scholarly journals in all areas of science. -
CRC handbook of chemistry and physics
Standard handbook to find property information, including wavelength. -
Common Chemistry
Quick source of chemical names and CAS registry numbers. - IsisCB Explore
A research tool for the history of science, whose core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science. The IsisCB currently contains 40 years of citation data from 1974 to 2014.
Help with course assignments
- CHEM 332: Chemistry of Transition Metals (updated Oct. 2014)
- CHEM 366W : Phys Chem Lab II (updated Sept. 2015)
New Chemistry books
- Carbon-based polymer nanocomposites for environmental and energy applications
- Pincer compounds : chemistry and applications
- Early drug development : bringing a preclinical candidate to the clinic.
- Metal oxide-based photocatalysis : fundamentals and prospects for application
- Wetting theory
- Vicinal diaryl substituted heterocycles : a gold mine for the discovery of novel therapeutic agents