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Abstracts and Indexes
* Premier Resources *SciFinder Scholar   SciFinder Scholar is the best database for chemistry-related topics; Access it online, download software to use it on your home or office computer, access it from public computers in Walter, BioMedical, or Magrath Libraries by clicking on the SciFinder desktop icon (note: access contractually restricted to current U of MN faculty, students and staff). SciFinder Scholar includes journal and patent literature with references as far back as 1907 as well as information on chemical regulatory data, suppliers, reactions, and substances. You will need to download and log in to VPN before you can access SciFinder from off-campus. Non-affiliates should see this guide for options. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| DiscoveryGate DiscoveryGate includes Beilstein (physical property and reaction data for more than 10 million organic compounds) and Gmelin (similar types of information for over 2.2 million inorganic and organometallic compounds); PC users will need to download a piece of software to use DiscoveryGate and all users may need to make an exception for blocked pop-up windows. The only browsers supported are Internet Explorer and Safari. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Web of Science (ISI) The Web of Science is the Web interface for institutional sitewide access to the Science Citation Index. A citation index compiles cited references from journal articles and allows you to find articles that have cited older papers. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Chemical Compounds| Dictionary of Inorganic & Organometallic Compounds Database containing over 101,000 representative organometallic, inorganic, & coordination compounds. Provides synonyms, formulae, structures, CAS Registry Numbers, synthesis, physical properties, literature citations. Substructure searchable with plug-in. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry This updated edition of the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry covers the following areas of inorganic chemistry: Main Group Elements; Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry; Bioinorganic Chemistry; Solid State, Materials, Nanomaterials and Catalysis; and General Inorganic Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Methods. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| Science of Synthesis Science of Synthesis is an electronic version of the reference work by the same name; it also provides access to Houben-Weyl (Methods of Organic Chemistry) which includes references back to 1835; requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, and pop-up blockers should be disabled. Science of Synthesis covers both organic and organometallic synthetic methods. The methods are evaluated and include full experimental details. The content is full-text, structure, and reaction searchable. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
| ASM Handbooks Online ASM Handbooks Online(The Metals Handbook), a large database covering metals property and performance data, is the place to start for data on metals and includes all 21 ASM Handbook volumes and two ASM Desk Editions. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Handbook of Inorganic Compounds Contains physical & crystallographic data, nomenclature, & references for roughly 4,000 commonly-used inorganic compounds. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Reactivity of Inorganic Substances: Handbook Gives data on more than 7000 important substances. Includes: chemical name, physical description, thermal stability, structure, solubility, reactivity, behavior in widely used solvents, & many specific properties. Provides synthetic methods on both industrial and laboratory scales. Also gives reactions in which the substances are reactants. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Physical Property Data
| Constants of Inorganic Substances Gives data on over 4000 substances of industrial & scientific importance. Has phase-transition temperature, relative atomic masses, ionization and binding energies, bond lengths, thermodynamic constants, redox potentials, acidity and basicity. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Crystallography Open Database Open access database of published and unpublished crystal structure atomic coordinates. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| International Tables for Crystallography The definitive resource and reference work for crystallography with articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials; symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals are primary emphases. A Brief Teaching Edition, a teaching tool drawn from Volume A, covers the 17 plane groups, 24 selected space-groups, & basic explanations. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Spectra, Infrared
| Aldrich Library of FT-IR Spectra A 3-volume set with over 18,500 spectra placed in order of chemical class and structural complexity. Includes chemical name, Wiswesser notation, melting point, and boiling point. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Spectra, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
| Aldrich Library of 13C and 1H FT NMR Spectra A 3-volume set arranged by chemical class, containing proton and 13C NMR spectra for nearly 12,000 compounds. Gives name, limited physical properties, and structures as well. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Aldrich Library of NMR Spectra 2-volume set covering over 37,000 compounds, arranged by chemical class, with alphabetical and molecular formula indexes. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra (Sadtler) A set of 64,000 proton NMR spectra, not arranged by chemical class. Indexed by the Sadtler comprehensive indexes (which cover all the large Sadtler sets) by: name, molecular formula & weight, chemical class. Try Aldrich first. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Spectra, Ultraviolet & Visible
| Absorption Spectra in the Ultraviolet and Visible Region A 24-volume set of spectrographs, with cumulative name and formula indexes. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Treatises
| Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry A 7-volume set surveying binding of ligands, coordination chemistry of the elements, and applications. Indexes by subject and formula in vol. 7. Vol. 1 covers theory and background; Vol. 2 is Ligands; Vols. 3-5 are surveys by metal; Vol. 6 is applications. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry A 5-volume set including history; preparation; production; physical, chemical & thermodynamic properties; compounds; spectra; analytical chemistry and more, of the elements, arranged by periodic table group. Dated, but very useful. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II A 14-volume set covering the literature from 1982-1994, this builds on the original 9 volume work, also in Walter reference. Volumes 11 & 12 treat the use of organometallics in organic synthesis. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III This work builds on the two previous Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry treatises and covers developments in and applications of organometallic chemistry since 1993. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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