Selected Resources for: Chemistry, Inorganic

SciFinder is the best database for chemistry-related topics. Registration is required, and you must download and log in to VPN for off-campus access. Access is contractually restricted to current U of MN faculty, students and staff (non-affiliate options).

SciFinder includes journal and patent references back to 1907,chemical regulatory data, and supplier, reaction, and substance information. SciFinder Mobile is best for quick searches and has limited functionality. It has no seat or IP access restrictions but requires a SciFinder account.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A 24-volume set of spectrographs, with cumulative name and formula indexes.
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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.
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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.
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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.).
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