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Chemistry: Reference Shelf

A guide to the key resources for the academic study of chemistry.

Encyclopedias, Handbooks, and Basic Reference Sources

ACS Reagent Chemicals - Baker Berry  QD77 .A54

Chem Sources U.S.A. - Baker Berry TP12 .C44  2009

The Laboratory Companion: A Practical Guide to Materials, Equipment, and Technique
Baker Berry QD53 .C69 1997 (more info)

Organic Chemistry

Comprehensive Organic Chemistry, Sir Derek Barton, ed. (catalog record)
Bak er BerryQD245 .C65 1979

Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1st  and 2nd eds., Alan Katritzky, ed.
Baker Berry QD400 .C65 (together, the 1st & 2nd eds. review the field through 1995)

Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry 1st ed., Sir Derek Barton, Koji Nakanishi, eds.  (catalog record)
Baker Berry QD415 .C63 1999

Dictionary of Organic Compounds 6th ed. (catalog record)
Baker Berry QD246 .D5 1996

Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds, 2nd ed. (catalog record)
Baker Berry QD251 .R62

Advanced Organic Chemistry (Carey and Sundberg, eds.) 5th ed.
Baker Berry QD251.2 .C36 2007 (pts. A & B); 

Synthetic Methods & Procedures

Comprehensive Organic Transformations, Richard C. Larock
Baker Berry QD262 .L355 1999 (also another copy in the Reference section)

Fieser & Fieser's Reagents for Organic Synthesis (catalog record)
Baker Berry QD262 .F5 (1967-present)

Theilheimer's Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry (catalog record)
Baker Berry QD262 .S94 (1949-present)

Inorganic & Organometallic Chemistry

Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds (catalog record)
Baker Berry QD148 .D54 1992

Dictionary of Organometallic Compounds, 2nd ed. (catalog record)
Baker Berry  QD411 .D53 1995

Polymer Chemistry

Seymour/Carraher's Polymer Chemistry (7th ed.)

Baker Berry QD381 .S483 2008

Finding Physical & Chemical Properties

These sites match specific physical & chemical properties with the handbooks and databases where they can be found.