Chemistry: Recommended Websites

CAS Source Index Search Tool (a.k.a. CASSI) can be used to determine journal titles and abbreviations used by CAS.

ChemSpider can be used to search publicly available chemical information. It can be searched by structure, chemical names and molecular formula.

Draw or enter a structure; or enter a chemical name, and eMolecules quickly searches over 6,000,000 substance records.

Wolfram|Alpha resource for finding chemical information such as unit conversions, flash points, thermodynamic properties, reactivity, and boiling points.

World's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other.

Search by chemical name, molecular formula, registry number for links to suppliers.

Provides links to Web sites for chemical companies.

The Chemical Register is a directory of 15,000 chemical suppliers.

Locate chemical products, equipment, companies, catalogs, and more from around the world

Provides technical data, safety data, properties, research, applications, and more.

Find properties of the elements.

Provides simple calculators for unit conversions, and a program which balances chemical equations.

NIST Web site provides the values of basic constants and conversion factors.

A database 2,500 organic compounds, search by melting point, boiling point, index of refraction, molecular weight, formula, absorption wavelength, and more.

Chemistry subject area from Nature.com. News announcements, breaking research news, and important new publications as vetted by Nature.com editors.

The American Chemical Society maintains two Web sites for chemistry.

ResearchGATE is social networking platform for scientists and researchers. It is Facebook for scientists. Scientists can create profiles, discover collaborators, upload articles, discover articles, find jobs, and discuss their work. ReseardhGate is free of charge