Subject Guides: Chemistry: Welcome

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Welcome to the Subject Guide for Chemistry

These pages bring together key resources for chemists.

Use the tabs above to Find resources, Evaluate what you've found and Organise your work.

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If you're looking for a study space, check out our live seating availability table:

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Key resources

Explore the full range of databases for Chemistry in the Find Resources page.

Chemical Database Service

A collection of chemical databases provided as part fo the EPSRC National Chemical Database Service.

ChemDraw

ChemDraw Std 13 is installed on IT Services supported PCs and is available for unsupported machines and personal use.

ChemSpider

ChemSpider, from the Royal Society of Chemistry, is a free-to-access collection of compound data drawn from across the web. It aggregates chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository and builds on the collected sources by adding additional properties, related information and links back to original data sources.
Reaxys

Reaxys searches an extensive collection of organic, organo-metallic, and inorganic chemistry data by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data. Reaxys is based on the CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases and draws data from around 3800 journals and patents from various patent offices. The content in Reaxys comes from the following sources:

- The Beilstein Handbook
- The Gmelin Handbook
- Selected literature from 1772 to today
- Organic chemistry and Life Science patents from US (since 1976), World and European (since 1978) patent publications.

For help and support please contact Adrian Whitwood in the Chemistry Department.
SciFinder Scholar

Online access to the Chemical Abstracts Service databases from 1907 to the present.

For help and support please contact Adrian Whitwood in the Chemistry Department.

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