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Property compilations
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- Knovel critical tables
- Reaxys
- Smithsonian physical tables
A - F
A
Activation energies
- CRC handbook of bimolecular & termolecular gas reactions. [print]
- Handbook of antioxidants : bond dissociation energies, rate constants, activation energies, and enthalpies of reactions [print]
- Polymer handbook. 4th ed [print]
Activity coefficients
- Activity coefficients at infinite dilution, in Physical and chemical equilibrium for chemical engineers. [print]
- Activity coefficients in electrolyte solutions. [print]
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- Handbook of biochemistry and molecular biology [print or online]
- Theoretical mean activity coefficients of strong electrolytes in aqueous solutions from 0 to 100 C [print]
Adsorption and adsorption coefficients
- EXTOXNET: pesticide information profiles
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- Thermal accommodation and adsorption coefficients of gases [print]
Antoine coefficients and constants
- CRC materials science and engineering handbook. [print or online]
- Handbook of the thermodynamics of organic compounds [print]
B
Bioconcentration factor aka bioaccumulation
- Agrochemicals desk reference: environmental data [print]
- Groundwater chemicals desk reference. 4th ed [print]
- Handbook of environmental data on organic chemicals. 2nd ed. [print]
- Handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals (revised from the Illustrated edition) [print]
Bond energies
- Bond dissociation energies in simple molecules [print]
- CRC materials science and engineering handbook. [print or online]
- Handbook of antioxidants: bond dissociation energies, rate constants, activation energies, and enthalpies of reaction. 2nd ed. [print]
- Reaxys
- WebElements
Bond lengths/ bond angles
- Cambridge structural database
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- Crystal data: determinative tables. 3rd ed [print]
- PDB: the Protein Data Bank
- Polymer handbook. 4th ed. [print]
- Tables of interatomic distances and configuration in molecules and ions [print]
C
Compressibility
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
Conversion factors
- Conversion factors for energy equivalents (NIST)
- Conversion of units
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
Corrosion
- Corrosion guide [print]
- CRC materials science and engineering handbook. [print or online]
- Metals handbook desk edition 2nd ed [print]
Critical properties
- Dean's analytical chemistry handbook [print]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
- Metals handbook desk edition 2nd ed [print]
- Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook. 8th ed [print]
Crystal structure and space groups
- Cambridge structural database
- CRC materials science and engineering handbook. [print or online]
- Crystal data: determinative tables. 3rd ed [print]
- Inorganic crystal structure database
- International tables for crystallography [print]
- LiqCryst
- PDB: the Protein Data Bank
- PDF-4+: Powder Diffraction File
D
Dielectric constant
- Electrochemical data [print]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- Knovel critical tables
- Nonaqueous electrolytes handbook [print]
- Properties of nonmetallic fluid elements [print]
- Reaxys
Diffraction Data
Diffusion (molecular)
Dipole moment
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
- Selected values of electric dipole moments for molecules in the gas phase NSRDS-NBS, no.10
- Tables of experimental dipole moments [print]
E
Electrical conductivity (see also: thermal conductivity)
- Electrochemical data [print]
- Electrolytic conductance and the conductances of the halogen acids in water NSRDS-NBS no. 33 [print]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- Knovel critical tables
Electrical resistivity
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- Electrochemical data [print]
- Smithells metals reference book. 8th ed. [print]
Electron affinity
Electron configuration
Enthalpy (see also: heat of formation)
- Handbook of antioxidants: bond dissociation energies, rate constants, activation energies, and enthalpies [print]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
- International thermodynamic tables of the fluid state [print]
- NIST-JANAF thermochemical tables [print or online]
Entropy
- Heat capacities and entropies of organic compounds in the condensed phase [print]
- Handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals (revised from the Illustrated edition) [print]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- International thermodynamic tables of the fluid state [print]
Environmental fate
- Agrochemicals desk reference [print or online]
- Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (University of Minnesota)
- Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia (National Park Service)
- EXTOXNET: pesticide information profiles
- Groundwater chemicals desk reference. 4th ed [print]
- Handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals (revised from the Illustrated edition) [print]
- SOLV-DB
Equilibrium constants
- Agrochemicals desk reference [print or online]
- Atlas of metal-ligand equilibria in aqueous solution [print]
- Critical stability constants. v.1-6 [print]
- Data for biochemical research [print]
- Dean's Analytical chemistry handbook [print]
- Dissociation constants of organic bases in aqueous solution [print]
- Handbook of biochemistry and molecular biology [print or online]
- Handbook of proton ionization heats and related thermodynamic quantities [print]
- Ionisation constants of organic acids in aqueous solution [print]
- Reaxys
- Stability constants of metal-ion complexes. 2d ed [print]
Expansion coefficient (see also: thermal expansion)
- Polymer Handbook 4th ed. [print]
Explosive properties (see also: flammability, flash point)
- Bretherick's handbook of reactive chemical hazards [print]
- Hazards in the chemical laboratory. [print]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
Exposure limits
- Hazardous laboratory chemicals disposal guide. 3rd ed. [print or online]
- NIOSH Pocket Guides to Chemical Hazards
- TOXNET
F
Flammability (see also: flash point)
- Bretherick's handbook of reactive chemical hazards [print]
- Comprehensive guide to the hazardous properties of chemical substances [print]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
- Sax's dangerous properties of industrial materials. 10th ed [print]
- TOXNET
Flash point (see also: explosive properties, flammability)
G-K
G
Gibbs free energy (aka free energy, free enthalpy, Gibbs function)
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- NIST-JANAF thermochemical tables [print or online]
H
Half life (see also: environmental fate)
- Dean's Analytical chemistry handbook [print]
- Radionuclide Half-Life Measurements
Hazard ratings, code and reactions (see also: NFPA chemical hazard labeling)
- Hazardous chemicals desk reference [print]
- Hazardous laboratory chemicals disposal guide. 3rd ed. [print or online]
- NIOSH Pocket Guides to Chemical Hazards
Heat capacity (see also: specific heat)
- Handbook of metal ligand heats and related thermodynamics quantities. 3rd ed. [print]
- Heat capacities and entropies of organic compounds in the condensed phase [print]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
- International thermodynamic tables of the fluid state [print]
- MatWeb
- NIST/TRC web thermo tables
- NIST-JANAF thermochemical tables [print or online]
- Physical and thermodynamic properties of aliphatic alcohols [print]
- Physical properties of hydrocarbons, v.1-4. 2nd ed. [print]
- SOLV-DB
- Thermal properties of aqueous uni-univalent electrolytes [print]
Heat of formation (see also: enthalpy)
- Evaluated kinetic data for high temperature reactions, v.1-3. [print]
- Handbook of proton ionization heats and related thermodynamic quantities [print]
- Ionization potentials, appearance potentials, and heats of formation of gaseous positive ions NSRDS-NBS, no. 26 [print]
- Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook. 8th ed [print]
Heat of fusion
- CRC materials science and engineering handbook. [print or online]
- Handbook of heat transfer fundamentals [print]
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
Heat of ionization
- Handbook of proton ionization heats and related thermodynamic quantities [print]
Heat of mixing
- Polymer handbook. 4th ed [print]
Heat of reaction
Heat of solution
Henry's law constants
- Agrochemicals desk reference [print or online]
- Groundwater chemicals desk reference. 4rd ed [print]
- Handbook of environmental data on organic chemicals. 2th ed. [print]
- Illustrated handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals [print]
- Ionic liquids database (ILThermo)
I
Internuclear distance
- Tables of interatomic distances and configuration in molecules and ions [print]
Ionization energy
- Atomic, molecular & optical physics handbook [print or online]
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- Ionization potentials, appearance potentials, and heats of formation of gaseous positive ions NSRDS-NBS, no. 26 [print]
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- Reaxys
- The elements [print]
- WebElements
Isoelectric point
- Biology data book. 2nd ed. [print]
J
K
Kinetic data
- Chemical kinetics database
- Compilation of rate constants for the reactions of metal ions in unusual valency states. NSRDS-NBS, no. 62 [print or online]
- CRC handbook of bimolecular & termolecular gas reactions. [print]
- Evaluated kinetic data
- Evaluated kinetic data for high temperature reactions, v.1-4 [print]
- Evaluated kinetic data on gas phase addition reactions [print]
- Gas phase reaction kinetics of neutral oxygen species. NSRDS-NBS, no. 20 [print or online]
- Handbook of antioxidants : bond dissociation energies, rate constants, activation energies, and enthalpies of reactions [print]
- Kinetic data on gas phase unimolecular reactions NSRDS-NBS, no. 21 [print or online]
- Liquid-phase reaction rate constants [print]
- NDRL/NIST Solution Kinetics Database on the Web NIST Standard Reference Database 40
- Polymer handbook 4th ed. [print]
- Radical Reaction Rates in liquids Landolt-Bornstein numerical data and functional relationships in science New series.Gr. 2 Bd. 13 [print]
- Rate coefficients for ion-molecule reactions: organic ions other than those containing only C and H NSRDS-NSB, no. 64 [print or online]
- Rate constants for reactions of aliphatic carbon-centered radicals in aqueous solution NSRDS-NBS, no. 70 [print or online]
- Rate constants for reactions of inorganic radicals in aqueous solution. NSRDS-NBS, no. 65 [print or online]
- Reactivity of the hydroxyl radical in aqueous solutions NSRDS-NBS, no. 46 [online]
L-P
L
M
N
O
Octanol/water partition coefficient (aka: LogP)
- Agrochemicals desk reference [print or online]
- Groundwater chemicals desk reference. 4rd ed [print]
- Handbook of environmental data on organic chemicals. 2th ed. [print]
- Handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals (revised from the Illustrated edition) [print]
- SOLV-DB
Optical rotation
- Data for biochemical research [print]
- Handbook of optical constants of solids [print]
- Tables of resolving agents and optical resolutions [print]
Oxidation states
Oxidation-reduction potentials (aka: electrode potentials, redox potentials)
- CRC handbook series in inorganic electrochemistry [print]
- CRC handbook series in organic electrochemistry [print]
- Dean's Analytical chemistry handbook [print]
- Handbook of electrochemical constants
- The elements [print]
P
Partition coefficients
- Agrochemicals desk reference [print or online]
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- Dean's Analytical chemistry handbook [print]
- EXTOXNET: pesticide information profiles
- Groundwater chemicals desk reference. 4rd ed [print]
Phase diagrams
- Constitution of binary alloys [print]
Physical properties general: Boiling point, freezing point, melting point, density, refractive index, specific gravity
- Densities of aqueous solutions of inorganic substances [print]
- Dictionary of substances and their effects [print]
- CRC handbook of data on organic compounds [print]
- Handbook of environmental data on organic chemicals [print]
- Nonaqueous electrolytes handbook [print]
- Reaxys
Proton affinity
Q-U
Q
R
Radii (aka: atomic radii)
Refractive index (see also: physical properties general)
- CRC materials science and engineering handbook. [print or online]
- Handbook of optical constants of solids [print]
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- Polymer handbook 4th ed. [print]
S
Solubility (see also: Physical properties general)
- Agrochemicals desk reference [print or online]
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- CRC handbook of data on organic compounds [print]
- Data for biochemical research [print]
- Dictionary of substances and their effects [print]
- Groundwater chemicals desk reference. 4rd ed [print]
- Handbook of environmental data on organic chemicals [print]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database Data taken from 11 volumes of the IUPAC Solubility Data series
- Nonaqueous electrolytes handbook [print]
- Reaxys
- Solubilities of inorganic and organic compounds [print]
- Solubilities: inorganic & metal-organic compounds
- SOLV-DB
Specific deat (see also: heat capacity)
- Biology data book. 2nd ed. [print]
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- CRC materials science and engineering handbook. [print or online]
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook. 8th ed [print]
- Thermal properties of aqueous uni-univalent electrolytes [print]
- Thermophysical properties of high temperature solid materials [print]
Stability constants
- Critical stability constants. v.1-6 [print]
- Dean's analytical chemistry handbook [print]
- Stability constants of metal-ion complexes, with solubility products of inorganic substances [print]
- Stability constants of metal-ion complexes. 2d ed [print]
Surface tension
- Handbook of electrochemical constants
- Handbook of heat transfer fundamentals [print]
- Ionic liquids database (ILThermo)
T
Tensile strength
- Corrosion resistant materials handbook [print]
- CRC materials science and engineering handbook. [print or online]
- MatWeb
- Polymer handbook. 4th ed [print]
- Reaxys
Thermal conductivity
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- Handbook of heat transfer fundamentals [print]
- Industrial solvents handbook. 5th ed. [print]
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- Ionic liquids database (ILThermo)
- Perry's chemical engineers' handbook. 8th ed [print]
- Properties of nonmetallic fluid elements [print]
- SOLV-DB
- Thermodynamic conductivity of selected materials NSRDS-NBS, no.8 [print]
Thermodynamic properties
- Evaluated kinetic data for high-temperature reactions, v.1-3. [print]
- Heat capacities and entropies of organic compounds in the condensed phase [print]
- Infotherm thermophysical properties database
- International thermodynamic tables of the fluid state [print]
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- NIST/TRC web thermo tables
- Physical and thermodynamic properties of aliphatic alcohols [print]
- Thermodynamics of enzyme-catalyzed reactions NIST standard reference database 74
U
V-Z
V
Vapor pressure
- Agrochemicals desk reference [print or online]
- CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print or online]
- CRC materials science and engineering handbook. [print or online]
- Groundwater chemicals desk reference. 4rd ed [print]
- International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology [print or online]
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- Perry's chemical engineers' handbook. 8th ed [print]
- SOLV-DB
Viscosity
- Handbook of electrochemical constants
- Ionic liquids database (ILThermo)
- Nonaqueous electrolytes handbook [print]
- Polymer handbook. 4th ed [print]
- Properties of nonmetallic fluid elements [print]
W
X
Y
Young's modulus
- Metals handbook desk edition 2nd ed [print]
- Properties of porous silicon [print]
- Properties of silicon carbide [print]
Z
Attribution: This guide is adapted from Vanderbilt University Libraries (as of December 2015), under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA).