Chemistry

These databases (selection) support you in your studies and research:

• external page Reaxys – Successor to CrossFire Beilstein/Gmelin, contains Beilstein and Gmelin data and the Chemistry Patent Database (approx. 480,000 patents) – Further information
• external page Science of synthesis: Houben-Weyl methods of molecular transformations – Established methods of producing the main classes of substances, options for searching by substance, structure and text
• external page SciFinder – Comprehensive information on compounds and reactions based on the Chemical Abstracts databases – Further information
• external page Scopus – Interdisciplinary, the most comprehensive bibliographic database with respect to the number of journals covered, particular focus on non-anglophone literature, enables citation analyses and includes unique author IDs – Further information
• external page Web of Science – Interdisciplinary database including the Derwent Innovations Index (patents), Web of Science Core Collection (journal articles), Science Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports – Further information
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Analog or digital, the most important reference books are available for you:

• external page RÖMPP online – Most comprehensive encyclopaedia of chemistry and related sciences (60,000 keywords), keyword or full-text search option.
• external page Springer Materials – Based on the Landolt-Börnstein New Series, options for searching by substance, property or keyword
• external page Handbook of Chemistry and Physics – Physico-chemical data on organic and inorganic compounds, with options for searching by structure and substance properties
• external page Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry – Comprehensive reference work on all aspects of analytical chemistry, subject-based search function
• external page Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry – Systematic descriptions of metallo-organic reactions sorted by substance class, subject-based search function
• external page Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry – Systematic descriptions of metallo-organic reactions sorted by substance class, subject-based search function
• external page Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology – Comprehensive information on chemical substances, how they are produced industrially and chemical procedures in general
• external page Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook)   – Theory and practice of chemical engineering; formulae, tables and nomograms as the basis for technical calculations
• external page Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry – Covers a wide range of aspects of theoretical chemistry (from chemical informatics to quantum chemistry), with subject-based search function

• external page Catalysis Hub – The “Surface Reactions” database on this platform for sharing data and software for computational catalysis research contains thousands of reaction energies and barriers from density functional theory (DFT) calculations for surface systems
• external page Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark DataBase CCCBD – Experimental and quantum mechanics calculated thermochemical data for a selected group of over 2000 atoms and small molecules in the gas phase
• external page Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis – Options for searching by substance, structure or term for about 70,000 reactions and 4,000 reagents
• external page IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry – Instructions on the correct nomenclature for organic compounds, option for searching by keyword
• external page NIST Chemistry WebBook – Comprehensive thermodynamic and spectroscopic data, various search options
• external page Spectral database of organic compounds SDBS – this database contains molecular spectra of over 34,000 organic compounds