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Chemistry: Reference Shelf

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

  • Chemistry - Foundations and Applications
  • Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed)
  • Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry
  • International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry, and technology
    Contains critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. Features physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties.
  • Kaye & Laby Online: Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants
  • NIST / TRC Web Thermo Tables
  • Purification of Laboratory Chemicals
  • Sigma-Aldrich Catalog Online
  • What Every Chemist Should Know about Patents
  • Knovel, Academic, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Provides full-text technical information and interactive tools in engineering and applied sciences. Content includes over 2,000 reference handbooks and databases produced by more than 50 technical publishers and professional societies, organized by subject area.
  • SpringerMaterials: the Landolt-Börnstein database Based on the 400-volume Landolt-Brnstein New Series, SpringerMaterials is an extensive collection of fully evaluated physical and chemical property data for engineers and physical scientists. SpringerMaterials includes thermophysical properties of common components and mixtures; a data collection on inorganic solid phases, covering crystallographic data, phase diagrams, diffraction patterns, and physical properties; and a collection of chemical safety documents.

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); 

  • Advanced Organic Chemistry Part A: Structure and Mechanisms
  • Advanced OrganicChemistry Part B: Reactions and Synthesis
  • Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III
  • March's Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure, Sixth Edition
  • Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups (1964-1995)
  • Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups (1995-2016) 1995-2016
  • WebCSD: Cambridge Structural Database Contains published crystallographic data on organic, organometallic, and metal complex structures whose 3D structures have been determined using X-ray diffraction or neutron diffraction.
  • Reaxys Based on the combined content of Beilstein, Gmelin, and the Patent Chemistry Database, Reaxys is an extensive repository of reaction and substance property data for organic, organometallic, and inorganic compounds. Substance and reaction profiles provide a tabular view of validated experimental data. Reaxys' integrated synthesis planner supports the development of efficient synthesis strategies.

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)

  • Comprehensive Organic Synthesis - Selectivity, Strategy and Efficiency in Modern Organic Chemistry, Volumes 1 - 9
  • Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations II
  • e-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
  • Greene's Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis, Fourth Edition
  • Organic Synthesis
  • Organic Reactions
  • Reaxys Based on the combined content of Beilstein, Gmelin, and the Patent Chemistry Database, Reaxys is an extensive repository of reaction and substance property data for organic, organometallic, and inorganic compounds. Substance and reaction profiles provide a tabular view of validated experimental data. Reaxys' integrated synthesis planner supports the development of efficient synthesis strategies.
  • Science of Synthesis

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

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  • WebCSD: Cambridge Structural Database
  • Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
  • Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II
  • Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III
  • Inorganic Syntheses
  • Reaxys
    Based on the combined content of Beilstein, Gmelin, and the Patent Chemistry Database, Reaxys is an extensive repository of reaction and substance property data for organic, organometallic, and inorganic compounds. Substance and reaction profiles provide a tabular view of validated experimental data. Reaxys' integrated synthesis planner supports the development of efficient synthesis strategies.

Polymer Chemistry

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

Baker Berry QD381 .S483 2008

  • Handbook of Condensed Matter and Materials Data concise compilation of data and functional relationships from the fields of solid-state physics and materials
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    The data, encapsulated in 914 tables and 1025 illustrations, have been selected and extracted primarily from the extensive high-quality data collection Landolt-Börnstein and also from other systematic data sources and recent publications of physical and technical property data.

Finding Physical & Chemical Properties

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

  • ThermoDex
    Records for selected printed and web-based compilations of thermochemical and thermophysical data for chemical compounds and other substances.

Finding Spectra

  • NIST Chemistry WebBook
  • Sigma-Aldrich Catalog Online
  • Spectra
  • Spectra & Spectral Data
  • Spectral Database for Organic Compounds - SDBS
  • UT Finding Chemical Spectra and Spectral Data: Web Sources

Chemical Safety

Laboratory Safety for Chemistry Students
Baker Berry QD51 .H55 2010 (check availability)

The Sigma-Aldrich library of chemical safety data
Baker Berry
T55.3.H3 S54 1988  v.1-2

  • Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, Volumes 1-2 (7th Edition)
  • Destruction of Hazardous Chemicals in the Laboratory, Third Edition
  • Hazardous Chemicals Desk Reference, Sixth Edition
  • NIOSH-OSHA Occupational Health Guidelines for Chemical Hazards
  • Sigma-Aldrich Catalog Online
  • Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens (5th Edition)
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