Subject Guides Prepared by the Swain Library

General Guide | Analytical Chemistry | Biotechnology | Chemical Laboratory Safety | Crystallography | Drug Information | Inorganic Chemistry | Life Scientists | Physical Chemistry | Polymer Chemistry | Searching the Internet | Spectral Information

Chemistry Resources for Life Scientists

Compiled by Grace Baysinger (graceb@stanford.edu)

Contents

Dictionaries, Directories, and Nomenclature

• ACS Directory of Graduate Research
• Chemical Acronyms Database
• Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2nd Ed, 1989)
• McGraw-Hill’s AccessScience Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
• IUPAC Nomenclature Home Page

Encyclopedias and Major Reference Works

• Burger’s Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery
• Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry : The rational design, mechanistic study & therapeutic applications of chemical compounds
  Lane Core Textbooks RS403 .C65 1990 v. 1–6
• Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations II
  Swain Reference QD262 .C534 2005 v. 1–7
• Comprehensive Organic Synthesis: Selectivity, strategy, and efficiency in modern organic chemistry
  Swain Reference QD262 .C535 1991 v. 1–9
• Encyclopedia of Catalysis
• Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
• Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine
• Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Encyclopedia

Physical Properties

Concise

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
• ChemNetBase
  Portal that includes access to the Combined Chemical Dictionaries, Properties of Organic Compounds, and the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Structure drawing plug-in required for CCD and POC.
• Combined Chemical Dictionaries IN ChemNetBase
  Includes these Dictionaries: Analytical Reagents, Commonly Cited Compounds, Drugs, Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, and Natural Products, Organic Compounds. Structure drawing plug-in required.
• CCOHS Plus CHEMpendium
• Hazardous Substances Data Bank
• Household Products Database
• Lange’s Handbook of Chemistry
• Merck Index on the Web
  ChemDraw plug-in required for structure searching.

In-Depth

• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry and Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry via Reaxys
• Landolt-Bornstein Index (pdf)
  In print at Physics Library; selected vols at Swain and Branner.

Guides to Property Data

• Knovel
  Contains full-text of approximately 800 handbooks. Advanced search includes numeric searching of properties.
• NIST Data Gateway
• Finding Physical and Chemical Properties (Vanderbilt)
• Index to Physical, Chemical, and Other Property Data (ASU)

Crystallography

• Cambridge Structural Database (Organic Compounds)
• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
• Crystallography: Guide to Resources (Stanford)

Methods and Protocols

• Official methods of analysis of AOAC International, 18th Edition
  Swain Reference S587 .A7 2005
• Codex Alimentarius (FAO/WHO Food Standards)
  Web site containing standards for analyzing food.
  • Codex Alimentarius — Current Official Standards
    List of analytical standards by food product.
    • Recommended Methods of Analysis and Sampling (pdf)
      Indicates which method to use for a particular analysis.
• Methods in Enzymology

Reagents

• Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
• Reagent Chemicals

Spectral Resources

• SDBS Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
• Spectral Information: Guide to Resources (Stanford)

Chemical Supplier Databases

• Available Chemicals Directory in 3-D
  Must download MDL ISIS client software; get password from Lee Kozar. Structure searchable; includes prices.
• ChemCats
  Resource integrated into SciFinder Scholar. Must download SFS software. Structure searchable.
• ChemExper
  Search by name, formula or CAS Registry Number. Also includes a property explorer.
• Chemical Sources Online
  Web interface based on classic print books.

Major Bibliographic Databases

• Chemical Abstracts Online via SciFinder Scholar
• Derwent Innovations Index (Patents)
  Includes structure searching.
• Web of Science (SciSearch). Limited to Stanford users.

Major Structure and Reaction Databases

• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry and Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry via Reaxys
• Chemical Abstracts Online via SciFinder Scholar
  Client-server interface. Separate installation required for 3D viewer. Has ACS ASAP.
• Derwent Innovations Index (Patents)
• MDL DiscoveryGate
  Includes a suite of databases such as Available Chemicals Directory (includes prices), ChemInform, Drug Data Report, and Metabolite.
• SpresiWeb

Specialized Databases

• Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
• Biochemical Pathways
  Trial access only.
• Cambridge Structural Database (Organic Compounds)
• ChemID Plus
• Comprehensive Organic Group Transformations II (coming soon)
• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
• Macromolecular Structure Database
• Nucleic Acids Research — Database 2006 Issue
• Science of Synthesis (Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Synthesis)
  Houben-Weyl print: Bd. E22a-d. Synthesis of peptides and peptidomimetics. Web interface, plug-in required. Structure, reaction and bibliographic citation searching.

FYI

• Alerting Services
• Stanford Dissertations (digital access 1989–)
• Reference Materials
• Swain Journal List
• Swain Subject Guides

Software

• ChemDraw Software
  Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SU*LAIR) / Academic Computing has paid for a campus-wide site license to ChemDraw Standard, a version of the popular chemical drawing program by CambridgeSoft. Download ChemDraw.

  This site license allows all current Stanford students, faculty, and staff to download the program FOR FREE to their home, office, or personal computer. Users must have an email address that ends with:

  • @stanford.edu
  • @slac.stanford.edu
  • @globalecology.stanford.edu

  Note that after downloading, no Internet connection is required for use. The license key you will receive as part of the registration process does include a timer that corresponds to the time frame of the annual site license agreement.

• Gaussian Software
• Software on Swain’s Computers

Selected eBooks

• NCBI Bookshelf
• Knovel e-Handbooks
  • Basic Concepts in Biochemistry — A Student’s Survival Guide (2nd Ed, 2000)
  • Biotechnological Innovations in Chemical Synthesis (1997)
  • Cooperativity and Regulation in Biochemical Processes (2001)
  • Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry (26th Ed, 2003)
  • Molecular Modeling and Prediction of Bioactivity (2000)