Chemistry Information on the Internet
last updated February 8, 2001
New and Exciting Chemistry Web Developments
Publications and Journals
- Electronic Publishing takes Journals into a New Realm
- Chemical and Engineering News article from the May 18, 1998 issue on electronic journals.
- Internet Journal of Chemistry
- A new electronic journal dedicated to publishing chemistry in the Internet.
The entire journal is structured to take advantage of the electornic publishing
medium to enhance the communication of chemical research. An article describing
the design of the journal Designing the Next-Generation
Chemistry Journal: The Internet Journal of Chemistry is published in
Issues in Science & Technology
Librarianship.
- Tetrahedron Information System
- Online access to the Tetrahedron journals, including full text.
Available for free through June 1996
Chemical Data and Visualization
- Internet Resources for Chemistry
- This page provides links to World Wide Web sites related to chemistry. It includes directories,web sites for chemistry departments and other acedemic centers, chemical companies, and other types of resources.
- NIST WebBook
- A fantastic collection of chemical data collected by NIST. Search the database by chemical formula, name, or molecular weight. Obtain thermochemical data
(for over 4000 organic and small inorganic compounds)
for the gas and liquid phase, proton affinities, and more. Also contains IR and NMR data, which are viewed through interactive Java applets.
- VRML gallery of chiral Nano-Tubes
- Proceedings of the Second Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference
- This is an online version of the official Proceeding of the Second
Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference which was held on the Internet
in November 1996. The Proceedings are published in the Journal of Molecular
Structure (THEOCHEM), 1996, volume 368 and reproduced online for
free. The online version includes materials not contained in the printed
version, such as color graphics, video, VRML, and hypermolecules.
- Computational
Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark DataBase
- The NIST Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark Database is a collection of experimental and ab initio
thermochemical properties for a selected set of molecules.
- Chemscape Chime
- A Netscape Navigator Plug-in module that allows the user to view and manipulate chemical strcutures within an HTML page. Developed by MDL
- KR ScienceBase
- A html front-end to the Dialog system. You must register to actually view the hits, but you can get the idea of the utility and design of the system without paying anything.
- Daylight Chemical Information System
- A very nice html and cgi front-end to the Daylight chemical databases. Free access to a limited subset of the Daylight systems are available.
- 2D-Plots of chemical structures on demand
- A form based entry system to obtain a GIF or PNG image of a chemical structure. Very nice. Designed by Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt
- Publishing Chemistry on the Internet
- A description of how chemistry publications may evolve in the future, making use of Chime, VRML, and MIME. Published in the e-journal NetSci.
- Chemical Patents Plus
- Chemical Patents available from CAS - with a twist, structures are available via a Java Applet.
- Best of the Web - Chemistry - 1996
- Our annual compilation of the best web sites in chemistry, as presented at the ACS
Computers in Chemistry Division's electronic poster session at the Fall 1996 National ACS meeting
- WebLab Viewer
- MSI's molecular viewer avilable for free for Mac and Windows
- Oxford's Virtual Reality
Group
- An peak at the virtual future - virtual laboratories, VRML applications,
etc. Be prepared - you'll need Netscape 3.o or Internet Explorer 3.0,
QuickTime VR, Shockwave, and a VRML viewer.
Educational and Fun Chemistry
- What Ever Happened to that Chemistry Link?
- A list of once popular chemistry web sites that are now missing in action. We
note that our own site makes the list, thanks to the relocation of the
server to Trinity University. Just points out some of the problems in trying
to maintain a service even though sites may move!
- The Periodic Table of Poetry
- Chemistry and poetry together as never before.Curious?
- Chemicool
- An impressive amount of information on the periodic table and elements.
- Chemsoc Careers
- It is the right place to be for job advertisements and careers advice
- Chemistry Hypermedia Project
- Educational software for general chemistry, analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis, optics, and electronics.
- The World of Materials
- Designed and maintained by Massachusetts Institude of Technology Department of Materials Science and Engineering, it is a simple but useful site about the classes of materials.
- Bad Chemistry
- This site brings to light commonly mistaught concepts in the field of chemistry.
- ChemCenter
- A service of the American Chemical Society
- ChemConnect
- This is an online chemical trading exchange where commercial chemical buyers and sellers expand their businesses. A useful site for educators and private companies.
Chemistry Databases and Related Information
- Computational Thermochemistry via G2 and G3 Methods
- This web site contains information on Gaussian-n theories and new test sets for assessing computational methods.
- Online Patents
- Delphion Intellectual Property Network - Formerly the IBM Patenet Server
- European Patent Office
- US Patent and Trademark Office
- CLogP predictions/databases on the web
- Interactive LogKow (KowWin) Demo
- ClogP of selected drugs
- ClogP and experimental logPs from Daylight
- CompuDrug Predictions (restricted to only 20)
- CDER New and Generic Drug Approvals-1998-2000
- FOI Services
- These two sites offer access to information on FDA Drug Approval Records
- Chemistry Journal Titles and Abbreviations
- PowBase
- Searchable database of x-ray powder patterns
- ChemIDplus
- A database of 350,000 chemical records, including 56,000 with structures. Provides synonyms and registry numbers
- Fullerene Database
- A database, maintained at the University of Arizona, of references in the ever-growing Fullerene literature. To access this database, after initiating the telnet session, login as sabio; then select other databases and remote libraries followed by a selection of Buckballs database
- Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP Express)
- The JCPExpress is a free trial service for electronic
distribution of preprints of manuscripts between acceptance
and publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics.
- Chemical Education Resource Shelf
- This archive, based at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, contains a comprehensive list of chemistry textbooks in print and links to publishers. This service was formerly called "Chemistry Textbooks in Print".
- Periodic Table of the Elements
- The name says it all
- Protein Database
- A protein database maintained at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Chemistry on the Internet from InterNIC
- A listing of chemical resources on the internet including such things as journals, FTP sites, Mailing lists, and commercial vendors.
- US Chemistry Graduate Programs
- an alphabetic listing of Graduate programs in the us. Also available by
state.
- Gaussian Basis Set Order Form
- A form-based database search provides Contracted Gaussian basis sets for ab initio calculations
- ChemInform
- Search a six-month subset of the ChemInform database for free as a demo
of the full product available on CDROM
- CHMINF-L Archives
- Hypermial Archive of the popular CHMINF-L (chemical information) List
- Thermodynamic data and property calculation sites
- International Union of
Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
- A number of IUPAC's nomenclature references and glossaries are available in full hypertext.
- 2D
and 3D Structural Information
- Collections from NCI of 2D and 3D structural information on almost half a
million compounds.
- Chirbase
- Database of chiral compounds
- Crystallography Source Code Museum
- An interesting collection of old source codes for crystallography!
- Combichem.net
- A launching point for combinatorial chemistry on the net
Electronic Journals
Chemistry World-Wide Web Sites
General Interest Sites
- Chemical Physics Preprint Database
- This database is a joint effort by the Department of Chemistry at Brown University
and the Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics Group at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory. It is intended to provide a means for rapid and efficient preprint
distribution within the international chemical physics community. It has been made
possible by funding from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
- Computational Chemistry List
- The home page for the computational chemistry list. It includes pointers to the list archives which can be searched.
- XMol Information
- Online user's guide to XMol, which is program for displaying 3D molecular models on an X11 display server.
- SCARECROW Information
- A Description of the program SCARECROW which allows for the graphical display and analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories.
- MIME Types for Chemistry
- A proposal for defining a MIME type for chemistry, to allow for the transfer of molecule definitions, geometries, properties, etc. The orginal Chemistry Mime Proposal is also available.
- American Chemical Society
- The ACS finally has hit the WWW; the site contains membership and division information. Also a schedule of meetings and deadlines.
- NIH Molecular Modeling Home Page
- Provides a centralized source of information to the NIH research community concerning all facets of molecular modeling. This includes "Molecules 'R' Us", a very nice forms-based interface to the Protein Data Bank.
- Theoretical Chemistry Postdoctoral Clearinghouse
- A postdoctoral clearinghouse run by the Theoretical Section of the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.
- World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC)
- A home page for WATOC includes information on past and future conferences
- Scientific Visualization and Graphics
- Not specifically geared towards chemists, this page is a compiliation of scientific visualization information
- Demonstration of ACS Abstract submission
- A real eye-opening experience of how abstract submission to ACS meetings (and any other meeting) should be handled. You will need a viewer that can handle forms, like Mosaic 2.4.
- Hyperactive Molecules and the World-Wide Web
- This paper, to be published in J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans 2, discusses the principle of hyperactive molecules.
- The Wilson Group
- An experimental server displaying the recent happenings and reserach interests of Professor Kent Wilson and his research group at the University of California, San Diego. This is an excellent example of how the web can be used to provide up-to-date information on
a research group.
- Definition of the CXF standard
- An html version of the definitions of the recently proposed standard for molecular definition files.
- Journal of Molecular Modeling
- The home page of the first electronic chemistry journal dedicated to rapid publication in the area of molecular and materials modeling.
- UTMB NMR Center
- A nice front end page to a variety of NMR information on the web.
- International Society for Heterocyclic Chemistry
- Contains information on the society. Also has the home page for The Royal Society of Chemistry Perkin Division Heterocyclic Group.
- AMBER Home Page
- Information on the AMBER molecular modeling program. Includes a detailed description of the algorithm and methods incorporated in AMBER, bug fixes, support, news groups, the license, and how to obtain the code.
- GAMESS Home Page
- Information on the GAMESS ab initio program, including a PowerMac version. The license and information on how to obtain the code are provided.
- EMSL Ab Initio Benchmark Report
- A comprehensive review of ab initio code performance on a variety of hardware platforms - sort of the Consumers' Report Guide to Ab Initio Codes.
- Amazing Science at the Roxy
- A collection of text, graphics and videos relating to chemistry and physics demos, particularly for the younger, future chemist crowd. Some nice HTML work, also.
- Medchem/Biobyte WWW Server
- A very interesting web site, based on a collaboration between Pomona College, Biobyte, Daylight Information, and the Medicinal Chemistry Project. This site contains, among many useful resources, a hypermail/glimpse index to the Computational chemistry List archives, a searchable chemical names archive, and email access to some of Daylight's commercial products (for free)
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- Journal of Biological Chemistry
- An online version of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, including full-text and a search facility.
- AMSOL homepage
- Technical description of the AMSOL program, release notes, and information on how to obtain the code
- MORATE and
POLYRATE
- Technical description of the MORATE and POLYRATE programs, release notes, and information on how to obtain the codes
- Chemistry Education resources
- A compilation of chemical education resources on the Internet
- The Electochemical Society
- Information on the operations and activities of the Society, including their conference schedule. Of interest is their initiatives towards electronic abstract submissions.
- North American Catalysis Society
- Theory of Atoms in Molecules
- A nice example of using the web as an educational tool - here is a
brief overview of Bader's topological electron denisty method, prepared by Bader himself.
More work like this on the web would bring about an outstanding reference series!
- Chemistry Today
- A chemistry resource containing news features, job listings, and meetings
- Chemsite
- A borad listing of industrial services, jobs listings, and product guides
- Dreyfus Foundation
- The web site of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation describing the
awards and grants programs
- Chemical Heritage Foundation
- The history of chemistry and chemical engineering: announcements of new publications
on the history of chemistry, abstracts of oral histories in the Othmer
Library of Chemical History, etc. Note also under the Othmer Library
that research questions on chemical history can be sent to the Research
Historian at the Othmer Library.
- North American Chapter of the International Chemometrics
Society
- Nomenclature of
Organic Chemistry
- This is the HTML reproduction of Sections A, B and C of IUPAC "Blue Book" [see
Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, Sections A, B, C, D, E, F, and H,
Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1979. Copyright IUPAC.] Hosted by Advanced Chenistry Development, Inc.
- Chem-4-Kids
- An introduction to chemistry for young children
Online Chemical Sources
- Buyer's Guide Chem
- ChemACX Net
- ChemConnect
- CHEMCYCLOPEDIA Online
- Chemdex
- CHEMEXPER
- ChemEXPO
- chemical online
- Chem Sources-Online
- e-Chemicals
- Fisher Scientific
- International Chemical Register
- Japan Chemical Search
- PMG On The Net
- Sigma-Aldrich
- The Sourcere Chemistry Directory
- WWW Chemicals Network
Commercial Sites
- ACD/Labs
- Software for NMR, LogP, and boiling Point prediction with online trials. Also an online copy
of the Nomencalture of Organic Chemistry
- ACS Publications
- Information on all ACS Publications, including books and journals. Includes
instructions to authors for submitting articles and supplementary material for some journals.
- Advanced Visual Systems
- Information on AVS products, which are used for scientific visualization.
- AtomWorld
- molecular model construction kits
- Baltzer Science Publishers
- Beckman Instruments
- Beilstein Information Systems
- CAS WWW Server
- An online source of information about the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS).
Current STN users can access the databases though a link on the Product and Services Page.
- Cambridge International Science Publishing
- CambridgeSoft
- Check out the ChemFinder resource, a chemical
search of the web!
- Bedoukian Research Inc.
- Catalytica
- Chapman and Hall
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- Chemical Concepts
- Chemical Sources
- ChemInnovation Software
- ChemKey Database
- ChemTech Publishing
- Dialog Information Services, Inc.
- An online source of information on Dialog products, including a searchable list of databases, publications, and an FAQ.
- Dow Chemical Company
- Description of the company and some of their educational outreach programs
- Eastman Chemical Company
- EduChem
- Elsevier Sciences
- FDM
- Fisher Scientific
- The Fischer Catalog of Analytical and Biotech reagents is online, including prices, specifications, and MSDS.
- Hitachi Instruments
- Hoechst AG
- Hypercube, Inc.
- Includes product description, demo software, and FAQ
- Indigo Instruments (molecular models, chemistry clipart)
- Karl Kurt Juchheim
Laborgeräte GmbH
- Eli Lilly and Company
- MDL Information Systems
- Currently contains the free version of ISI/DRAW
- Mettler-Toledo Inc.
- Currently offers a nice page on Thermal Nanlysis, including product descriptions and a forum on Thermal analysis, which is a unique and herlp
- Millipore Corportation
- Molecular Simluations
- MultiSimplex
- Monsanto
- Nalco Chemical Company
- Pharm-Eco Laboratories
- Phoenix Polymers, Inc.
- Includes an excellent list of pointers to polymer resources on the Internet.
- Questel/Orbit
- Description of the databases provided by Questel/Orbit. Registered users can access the databases through a link on this page.
- Rohm and Haas Company
- Sargent-Welch
- Schrödinger, Inc.
- Sigma-Aldrich
- Include an online version of Aldrichimica Acta
- Softshell
- Tripos
- Viking Instruments
- Ullmann's Encyclopedia
- UniChem
- Wavefunction, Inc.
- Wiley-VCH
University Web Sites
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta
- Department of Chemistry, Free University of Berlin
- Department of Chemistry, Bishop's University
- Chemsitry Department, Brigham Young University
- Chemistry Department at Brown University
- CAOS/CAMM Center, The Netherlands
- Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University
- College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
- Chemistry Department, University of California, Davis
- Chemistry Department, University of California, Irvine
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco
- Institute of Chemistry at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
- Chemistry Department, University College (UNSW) in Canberra
- Center for Scientific Computing
- University of Cincinnati
- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
- Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University
- Department of Chemistry, Duke University
- Durham Chemistry Department
- Department of Chemistry,
East Carolina University
- Department of Chemistry, ETH
- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College
- Department of Chemistry, Harvard University