Research Guides: CHEM 200: Advanced Chemical Concepts: Introduction

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Beginning Research

Your focus with this class will be to find chemical information and data for your lab reports and problem sets.

Sample Lab Report

Information can be categorized as primary, secondary, or tertiary depending on how and when it was created. Review the pdf to see what types of chemical information fall into each of these categories.

World of Chemical Information

Starting Points

Advanced Catalog Search
Search a wide selection of books, articles, and ebooks.
Chemistry Databases
You should NOT pay for any articles you may find! Check out this link to chemistry-themed databases available at Williams.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
The NIST Chemistry WebBook provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program. (NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce).
PubChem
The PubChem Compound Database contains validated chemical depiction information provided to describe substances in PubChem Substance. Structures stored within PubChem Compounds are pre-clustered and cross-referenced by identity and similarity groups.
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free database of over 115 million chemical structures, properties, and associated information provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
MatWeb
MatWeb is a searchable database of material properties including data sheets of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers, metals, ceramics, semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials. You can search by property, metal composition, material type, manufacturer name., trade name, polymer film, lubricant, or metal alloy UNS number.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics by William M. Haynes
Call Number: View online with link
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 27 Volume Set by Kirk-Othmer (Editor)
Call Number: Schow Reference ; TP9 .K54 2004
JANAF Thermochemical Tables by D.R. Stull and H. Prophet, project directors
Call Number: Schow Reference ; QC311 .D64

NIST-JANAF Tables
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a Standard Reference Database of chemical formulas for free on the web.

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