Library of Chemistry Information

Chemistry Information from the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and FDA

• Color Additives
• Cosmetic Chemicals and other Cosmetics information
• Electronic Orange Book: Approved Drug Products
• Food Additives
  • EAFUS: A Food Additive Database (465 KB)
  • "Indirect" Additives Used in Food Contact Substances (656 KB)
• Pesticides, Metals, Chemical Contaminants & Natural Toxins
• Science at FDA: The Key to Making the Right Decision (March-April 2000)
• Science at FDA/NCTR National Center for Toxicological Research
• Technical Lexicon

General References

• Alpha Chi Sigma Professional Chemistry Fraternity
• American Chemical Society chemistry.org
  • ACS Publications
    • Chemical & Engineering News Online Free to ACS members and other subscribers
    • C&E News June 17, 1996: Chemistry at FDA
    • Chemistry on the Internet book chapter by FDA chemist
    • Journals OR Search ACS Journals
  • ACS Technical Divisions
  • Chemical Abstracts Service
  • Symposium on Analytical Problems in Food Contamination September 7-11, 1997
• American Society for Mass Spectrometry
• American Peptide Society
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• AOAC International
• Biographical Sources for Chemists at Wiley-VCH
• Calculators for Chemistry and Physics Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center
• Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
• Chemical Structure Association Trust
• Chemist's Art Gallery Chemical Visualizations and Animations
• Chemistry Clip Art
• Chemistry Division, Special Library Association
• CHMINF-L Archives Chemical Information Sources Discussion List Archives
• Classic Chemistry and Selected Classic Papers
• History of Chemistry (biographies by subject index) Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute
• Institute of Analytical Chemistry
• International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • IUPAC Recommendations on Organic & Biochemical Nomenclature, Symbols & Terminology
  • IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology "Gold Book"
  • IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry published by Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc
• Molecule of the Month
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• The Nobel Foundation
  • 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Identification and Structure Analyses of Biological Macromolecules
  • 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Chirally Catalyzed Hydrogenaton and Oxidation Reactions
  • 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Discovery and Development of Conductive Polymers
• Phytochemical Society of Europe
• Royal Society of Chemistry
  • RSC Library and Information Centre (including images collection)
• Science and Technology Division Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society and FDA Chapter
• Society of Chemical Industry and SCI Publications
• SOCMA Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association
• U.S. Geological Survey Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry
• VRML in Chemistry University of Darmstadt, Germany

Greater Baltimore-Washington area and regional events

• Alpha Chi Sigma Washington Professional Chapter
• CHEMATHON
• Chemical Society of Washington ACS
• FDA Chapter of Sigma Xi 1996-2003 Science Forum
• ACS 36th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting, June 8-11, 2003
• George Mason University Chemistry Department
• George Washington University Department of Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Research Seminar Series
• University of Maryland Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Research Seminars

Chemical and Biochemical Databases on the Internet

• Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
• Acronyms and Abbreviations Database Indiana University
• Bioinformatics
  • ENZYME at ExPASy
  • Entrez National Center for Biotechnology Information (nucleotides, proteins, 3D structures, genomes, taxonomy, literature)
  • Genome Database (international collaboration in support of the Human Genome Project)
  • PeptideSearch European Bioinformatics Institute
  • Protein Data Bank
  • Protein Sequence Database (Swiss-Prot) at ExPASy Molecular Biology Server
  • Proteomics tools ExPASy, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (protein identification and characterization)
  • ProteinProspector University of California San Francisco (proteomics tools for mining sequence databases in conjunction with Mass Spectrometry experiments)
  • Proteomics Glossary Cambridge Healthtech Institute
  • Proteomics/Mass Spectrometry links University of Albany
  • Proteomics Methods Tutorials Proteome Society (Mass Spec Approaches Tutorial, Mass Spec & dB Analysis Tutorial)
  • PROWL Rockefeller Univerisity (esource for protein chemistry and mass spectrometry)
  • Swiss-Prot Protein Knowledgebase - annotated protein sequence database
• CAS Standard Abbreviations and Acronyms
• CAZy - Carbohydrate Active enZYmes
• ChemBank Initiative for Chemical Genetics Harvard Medical School
• Chemical Health and Safety Data at National Toxicology Program National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
• ChemExper Chemical Catalogs
• Compendium of Pesticide Common Names
• Crystallography Open Database
• EAFUS: A Food Additive Database (461 KB) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA
• Environmental Fate Data Base Syracuse Research Corporation (with support by EPA, Proctor & Gamble, and DuPont)
• Environmental Databases at RTK Net
• Environmental Protection Agency
  • Chemical References Index
  • Envirofacts Warehouse
• EMP Project: Enzyme and Metabolic Pathways
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• Fisher Chemical Catalog Fisher Scientific (includes MSDS)
• Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds IUPAC
• Hazardous Chemical Database University of Akron
• Haz-Map: Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases US National Library of Medicine
• Internet-based Chemical Information Services (chemical structures, IR, Raman, orbitals, physicochemical properties)
• IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology "Gold Book"
• Information for Perfumery Perfumery Database including flavors, oils, essences, and fragrances with MSDS
• Klotho: Biochemical Compounds Declarative Database
• MSDS
  • MSDS Searches Publicly accessible MSDS links by NOAA Seattle Regional Library
  • Vermont SIRI (alternate webserver and additional safety information)
  • Oxford U
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
  • Entrez (nucleotides, proteins, 3D structures, genomes, taxonomy, literature)
• National Library of Medicine
  • NLM Specialized Information Services
  • ChemIDplus
• NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Chemistry WebBook
  • Fundamental Physical Constants
  • NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Library ASCII Version
  • NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Library with Search Program
  • Physical Reference Data
  • Quantitative Infrared Database
  • Scientific and Technical Databases
• Nucleic Acid Database
• OSHA Chemical Sampling Information
• Patents & Trademarks
• Periodic Tables
  • Animated Periodic Table American Chemical Society
  • Elements at Chem4Kids
  • History
    • A Quick Look at the History of the Periodic Table
    • A Short History of the Periodic Table Pictorial Periodic Table
  • It's Elemental: The Periodic Table C&EN 80^th Anniversary Issue, 2003
  • Periodic Table of the Elements EnvironmentalChemistry.com
    Comprehensive data on the chemical elements; including element names in many languages
  • Periodic Table of the Elements (including health and environmental effects)
  • Periodic Table of the Elements Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Pictorial Periodic Table with several related links
  • Visual Elements Periodic Table Royal Society of Chemistry
  • WebElements^TM and PalmElements^TM University of Sheffield, UK
• Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases Agricultural Research Service
• Plastics.com (includes acronyms, tradenames, etc.)
• References: Chemical and Physical Properties Louisiana State University
• Sigma-Aldrich Catalog
• SOLV-DB Solvents Data at National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
• WWW Chemicals

Food and Chemistry

• American Association of Cereal Chemists
• American Dairy Science Association
• Better Flavors Through Organic Chemistry ACS inChemistry Nov/Dec 2003
• Caffeine FAQs and CSPI's Caffeine Contents
• Chemistry of Chilli Peppers
• Chemistry of Tea
• Fire and Spice: The Molecular Basis for Flavor
• Dairy Chemistry and Physics and Science and Technology
• Food Chemical News of CRC Press
• Food Chemicals Codex and NAS Institute of Medicine Food and Nutrition Board
• Food Chemistry table of contents, Elsevier Science
• Holiday Dinner Menu American Council on Science and Health
• IUPAC Commission on Food Chemistry Mycotoxin Working Group
• Salt Institute: Chemistry and Toxicity of Salt
• Science of Foods Oregon State University
• Science Desk America's Test Kitchen
• Sniffing Out Good Taste ACS

Chemistry Journals and Conferences on WWW

• Chemport: Full Text Journals on the Web
• Online-only Journals Monitored by Chemical Abstracts

• ACS Journals and Electronic Supporting Information
• Chemistry and Industry Magazine
• Electronic Conferences on Trends in Organic Chemistry
• Electronic Journal of Theoretical Chemistry
• Elemental Discoveries
• Internet Journal of Chemistry
• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
• Journal of Chemical Education Online
• Journal of Chemical Physics Express
• Journal of Molecular Modeling
• Journals of the Electrochemical Society and The Electrochemical Society
• Nucleic Acids Research Oxford University Press
• RSC Journals and the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Russian Chemical Reviews Abstracts
• Trends in Analytical Chemistry Internet Column

Comprehensive Lists of Chemistry Servers and Internet References

• Analytical Chemistry Springboard Umeå University, Sweden
• ChemConnect: Connecting Chemical Buyers and Sellers Worldwide
• Chemical Information Sources from Indiana University: CIS-IU
• Chemistry etc Karolinska Institute, Sweden
• Chemistry Newsgroups
• Chemistry Resources UCLA
• Department of Chemistry Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK
• Mass Spectromety sites IMPublications
• Molecular Monte Carlo at Cooper Union
• NMR Information Server
• WWW Virtual Library: Links for Chemists The University of Liverpool, UK
• Yahoo Chemistry List

Selected Commercial Chemical/Scientific Software and Publishers

• Accelrys (formerly Molecular Simulations)
• Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. including Chemical Property & Sprectral Predicting Software
• Beilstein MDL Information Systems GmbH
• CambridgeSoft Corporation and ChemFinder Searching web database
• ChemInnovation Software
• CRC Press, Inc.
• Daylight Chemical Information Systems
• ChemKey Search Database - demo version
• Environmental Science Center Syracuse Research Corporation
  • SRC Databases (e.g. environmental fate, experimental log P, solvents, physical properties, atmospheric oxidation)
• Grabitech Software
• Hypercube, Inc.
• Institute for Scientific Information
• Kimberlyte Inc. Educational Software
• MDL Information Systems Chemical Drawing Package
• Molecular & Cellular Proteomics
• Scientific Computing and Automation magazine
• SPSS Science Software
• Synapse Information Resources
• Synopsys Scientific Systems
• Selected Software and Publications for PDA
  • ChemPalm & ChemPocket ACD/Labs (view chemical structures, browse & search chemical databases containing structures)
  • Column Selector ACD/Labs (evaluate chromatographic columns scientifically)
  • Dictionary of Chemistry (eBook) Oxford
  • Element Mindgear (periodic table)
  • Molecular Weight Calc (About MW Calc)
  • NMR Solvent Reference Table ACD/Labs (table of NMR solvent chemical shifts for the various magnetic nuclei)
  • PalmElements^TM University of Sheffield
  • Pocket HyperChem (Hypercube) Molecular modeling and computational chemistry for Windows CE
  • Scientific Calculators

Selected Commercial Laboratory Instruments and Supplies

• Alitea USA Flow Injection Technology
• Beckman Coulter Products
• Bio-Rad Laboratories
• Cayman Chemical
• ChemExpo Virtual Trade Show
• Ciba Specialty Chemicals
• Dow Products and Services
• Dupont Product Database
• Flow Sciences, Inc. Fume Hoods
• Kinetics
• Gilson Company, Inc. Laboratory Equipment Catalog
• Hitachi Instruments, Inc.
• Labconco
• LabX Scientific Equipment Trading System
• Mettler Toledo Products and Solutions
• Millipore
• National Instruments
• Nicolet Instrument Corporation
• Novartis
• Omega Engineering, Inc. and technical references
• Orion Research, Inc.
• Perkin-Elmer
• Roche Molecular Biochemicals
• Sigma-Aldrich Corporation
• Spectrum Laboratory Products, Inc.
• Thomas Scientific
• Varian Associates
• Waters Corporation
• Whatman, Inc. Products
• Wyatt Technology Corporation

Selected Commercial Producers of Chemical Products for the Agricultural, Cosmetic, Food, and Pharmaceutical Industries

• BASF Corporation Product Catalog
• Bayer Agricultural Products, Chemicals, etc., Making Science Make Sense, and Science Fun
• Diversa Markets and Products
• Eastman Chemical Company Chemicals
• FMC Corporation Labels and Material Safety Data Sheets
• Merck Publications
• Monsanto Teaching Science
• National Starch and Chemical Company
• Pfizer Product Information for Health, Medicines, and Lifestyles
• Rohm and Haas Consumer and Industrial Specialties
• Sun Chemical Products

Kids & Educators

• Center for History of Physics American Institute of Physics
  • History of Physics and Allied Fields Exhibits and Other Online Resources
• Educator's Reference Desk - Chemistry and other Science
  • Educator's Reference Desk: Chemistry Lesson Plans
• CHEMATHON College Park, Maryland
• Chem4Kids
• Chewing Gum: How Gum is Made and the Story of Chewing Gum
• Every Day Science
• Learn About Chemicals Around Your House EPA
• MathMol Activity Center - K-12 Mathematics and Molecules + MORE (EDinformatics)
• National Mole Day Foundation, Inc Celebrated October 23 6:02am to 6:02pm
• Science Education - Risk Assessment (California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment)
  Paracelsus / Scientific Method / Dose Response / Multimedia Risk Assessment
• Science Fun Bayer
• Science Gems Science Resources for the classroom, Frank Potter
• Science Lesson Plans Lesson Planet
• Sniffing Out Good Taste ACS
• Soap
  • Chemistry and History of Soaps and Detergents
  • Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker

Fun Stuff

• Annals of Improbable Research and Ig Nobel Prizes
• Cooking with Chemistry Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
• Periodic Table of Comic Books
• Science is Fun In the Laboratory of Shakhashiri (Chemistry Demonstrations)

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