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Combined Chemical Dictionary

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About Combined Chemical Dictionary

The Chapman &Hall/CRC Combined Chemical Dictionary is a structured database holding information on chemical substances. It includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. The Combined Chemical Dictionary online version contains all those compounds published in:

Dictionary of Organic Compounds (240,000 records)
Dictionary of Natural Products (155,000 records)
Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds (100,000 records)
Dictionary of Pharmacological Agents (38,000 records)
Dictionary of Analytical Reagents (14,000 records)

Other Versions:
Print versions of the Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds, Dictionary of Organometallic Compounds, and Dictionary of Natural Products are available in the Kline Science Library or the Chemistry Library. Please check Orbis for more information.

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    Related Resources:
    Beilstein/Gmelin CrossFire -- physical and chemical property information for chemical substances. Searchable by identity data, structure, property, reaction or citation information. Far more comprehensive than the Combined Chemical Dictionary.
    Chemical Abstracts/SciFinder Scholar -- index to the chemical literature. Searches can be performed using keywords, chemical structure, molecular formula, chemical name, etc.
    CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics -- handbook of tables containing basic chemical and physical property information for organic and inorganic substances.
    Web of Science -- an interdisciplinary index for both keyword searching and citation tracking.

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    In order to execute a structure search in this database, you must download the associated plugin. The plugin is available from the database homepage. The necessary plugin is installed on the workstations in the Chemistry Library and on workstations 1 and 2 in the Kline Science Library.