Research Guides: CHEM 304, 340 and CHEM 342: Organic Chemistry (Braasch-Turi): Quick Start Resources

Best Bets: Chemistry Databases

Reaxys This link opens in a new window
Reaxys is your BEST BET for chemistry research. It is a powerful tool to search for substances, reactions, and articles. Search Reaxys by using keywords and phrases or drawing chemical structures and reactions as your search. If you can't access the full text of an article in Reaxys, submit an Interlibrary Loan request.
ACS (American Chemical Society) Web Editions This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to peer-reviewed journals and e-books published by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Also provides access to the ACS style guide.
Science Direct This link opens in a new window
Citations, abstracts and some full-text scholarly articles covering a wide range of science and health sciences topics. Quick search tutorial

Finding Chemistry Journals

Finding Electronic Access to Chemistry Journals

Use the links below to search for electronic scholarly journals in the field of chemistry.

E-Journals at Forsyth Library
Search by journal title (or broad discipline keywords such as "biochemistry") to find out the journals you can access electronically through Forsyth Library. Click on "online access" to view the journal in one of the library's database(s) and see the date ranges of issues available.
Open Access Chemistry Journals
Browse chemistry subject journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals by using the sidebar filter "Subjects > Science > Chemistry"

Journals outside of ACS and Reaxys

While most chemistry journals at Forsyth Library can be found using the ACS or Reaxys database, Forsyth Library has access to other chemistry journals that may also be worth considering. A search in the library catalog will also open up options such as these. A few of these titles include:

Chemical Society Reviews
The Royal Society of Chemistry's high impact reviews from across the chemical sciences.
Angewandte Chemie
A weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of the German Chemical Society.
Geochemical Transactions
Geochemical Transactions publishes high-quality research in all areas of chemistry as it relates to materials and processes occurring in terrestrial and extraterrestrial systems.
Chemistry and Industry
Presents the full text of "Chemistry & Industry," published semimonthly by the Society of Chemical Industry located in London, England.
Chemistry Journals in Science Direct
Browse the 20-30 chemistry journals that are housed in the Science Direct database. You can also do keyword or title searches from the Science Direct interface to include these in your search results.

Finding Chemistry Journals in Print

Print journals (or periodicals) are located on the Lower Level of Forsyth Library in the compact shelving. Search by journal title in the library catalog and use the sidebar filter to "Show Only > Available in the Library" and "Resource Type > Journals". For best results, put the journal title in quotation marks.

When you find a journal you're interested in, click the title to view the available format(s), location(s), years/issues available, and call number. Use hte location and call number listed in the catalog to go find the bound periodical on the shelves. Several journals are also available using microfilm, which require you to use the microfilm machines to view the contents.

Some of the most requested print journals in chemistry are listed below:

Journal Title	Call Number
American Chemical Society JI	QD 1 .A5
Angewandte Chemie	QD 1 .A67
Chemical Society Reviews	QD 1 .C624
Helvetica Chimica Acta	QD 1 .C624
JI of Physical Chemistry	QD 1 .J85
JI of Physical Chemistry A	QD 1 .J851
JI of Physical Chemistry B	QD 1 .J852
JI of Chemical Education	QD 1 .J93
Analytical Letters	QD 71 .A53
European JI of Inorganic Chemistry	QD 146 .E97
JI of Organic Chemistry	QD 241 . J6
JI of Chromatographic Science	QD 271 .J66
JI of Hetrocyclic Chemistry	QD 400 .J6
JI of Chemical Thermodynamics	QD 501 .J78

Drawing Chemical Structures

MarvinSketch Software
This free desktop toolkit helps you draw, edit, publish, render, import and export chemical structures and as well as allowing you to convert between various chemical and graphical file formats.

Finding E-books

ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Search for e-books and e-book chapters relating to topics within organic chemistry.

Chemical Data & Cheminformatics Websites

Molinspiration
Molinspiration supports internet chemistry community by offering free on-line services for calculation of important molecular properties (logP, polar surface area, number of hydrogen bond donors and acceptors and others), as well as prediction of bioactivity score for the most important drug targets (GPCR ligands, kinase inhibitors, ion channel modulators, nuclear receptors).
Chemicalize
Search chemical data and draw molecules online. Obtain structure-based predictions for chemical properties of any molecule to support your research: various properties and charts (logP, pKa, solubility, etc.), names and identifiers, 2D/3D visualization

CHEM 304, 340 and CHEM 342: Organic Chemistry (Braasch-Turi)

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