LibGuides: Chemistry 202—Spring 2025: Databases & Journals

Databases

SciFinder (1907 - Present)
For Reed Community only. SciFinder is a research tool that provides access to journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical papers, and a substance database.

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Scopus
A multi-disciplinary index to vetted journal and book titles (more than 25,000). Leans heavily towards the sciences, includes chemistry titles as well as engineering and medical sciences.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
Key reference source for chemical and physical data--constants, properties, etc
PubChem
PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more. Info on more than 110 million compounds and 227 million substances
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (EROS)
"e-EROS gives detailed information on more than 5,250 reagents and catalysts, and every year up to 200 new or updated articles are added in order to keep the database up-to-date."

Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni features news, business, and legal sources from LexisNexis. A good source for current articles in major newspapers and for looking up information about companies, industries, and countries.

Journals and Journal Collections

If you haven't identified particular journals, but would like to see what Reed has access to, you can use the mostly complete subject lists available from the journal title list.

American Chemical Society
   Journal of the American Chemical Society
   Organic Letters
   Organic Process Research & Development
   Organometallics
   Inorganic Chemistry
   Chemical Reviews
   Accounts of Chemical Research
   Chemical & Engineering News

Wiley Online Library
   Angewandte Chemie, International Edition
   Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis
   Chemistry - A European Journal
   European Journal of Organic Chemistry
   European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
   Chemical Communications
   Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
   Chemical Society Reviews

ScienceDirect
   Tetrahedron
   Tetrahedron Letters
   Tetrahedron: Asymmetry
   Journal of Organometallic Chemistry