CHEM 223: Organic Chemistry
Librarian: Josh Wilson
See your lab notebook for more information on the literature
searching assignment and the Library resources you will use. Please read this
section before visiting the Library.
NEW!! Check the CH223L page on the PAMS wiki.
 Chem223 Library Assignment Guide for Students
 Blank literature search report form
Use this site to find specific resources for locating
your chemical, its synthesis, and properties. The quick reference guide
(distributed in class, downloadable in MS Word format above, and available
at the library reference desk) should provide you with enough resource ideas
to complete the assignment. Some chemicals will be challenging or more obscure,
and it will be more difficult to find information, so you
may need other alternative resources other than those on the quick reference
guide.
Feel free to contact your librarian if you
need help!
Read the Getting Started page
for tips, discussion (which answers, among other things, "Why can't you just
use Google or Wikipedia for this assignment?"), and help on the literature searching assignment.
Click on any "Resource
details"
page for extra help and explanations of particular resources.
Click on individual title to link to electronic resources, or details about print resources.
- Aldrich: Advancing Science
(Aldrich Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals)
D. H. Hill Reference TP202 .A42
ALSO: Copies held in several Fox building labs
ALSO: On the web at http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/
- Wikipedia?
Nope. Don't use it for this assignment. It's debatable whether Wikipedia is a good source for chemistry information. You might find your chemical there. Sometimes it does have thorough information that has been reviewed by actual chemists. But you never know. Consider a couple of things. First, if you're working with potentially hazardous chemicals, do you really want to trust your personal safety and the lab you work in to Wikipedia, a source that could be edited by anyone at any time? And second, even in cases the information is available and reliable, it is actually gathered from other (more established, respected, and professionally edited) sources, including those on this list. So use them instead.
- ChemNetBase
Online via NCSU Libraries subscription
More information about this resource
- Merck Index
Online via NCSU Libraries subscription
D. H. Hill Reference RS51 .M4
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry
& Physics
D. H. Hill Reference QD65 .C4 (Most recent edition in Reference area; other
editions on 6th floor)
Available electronically through ChemNetBase
- Dictionary of Organic
Compounds
D. H. Hill Reference QD246 .D5 (9 volumes)
Available electronically through ChemNetBase
- Handbook of Data on Organic
Compounds (CRC)
D. H. Hill Reference QD257.7 H36 (6 volumes)
- PubChem
Available through the NIH and NLM
More information about this resource
- ChemFinder
Online at: http://chemfinder.camsoft.com/
More information about this resource
- ChemExper
Online at: http://www.chemexper.com/
More information about this resource
Other useful databases for chemical property information are available through
the NCSU
Libraries Chemistry subject page (Try Knovel
Scientific and Engineering Databases, NIST
Webbook,
or DIPPR for
more property data.)
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Click on individual title to link to electronic resources, or details about print resources.
- NCSU MSDS Management System
More information about this resource
- Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials
Online via NCSU Libraries subscription
Also in print - D. H. Hill Reference T55.3 .H3 L494
More information about this resource
- Merck Index
Online via NCSU Libraries subscription
D. H. Hill Reference RS51 .M4
- TOXNET
Available online through the NLM
- Sigma-Aldrich Library of Chemical Safety Data - abbreviated Safety in Aldrich Catalog
D. H. Hill Reference T55.3 H3 S54
- Sigma-Aldrich Library of
Regulatory & Safety Data - abbreviated R &
S in Aldrich Catalog
D. H. Hill Reference T55.3 .H3 S55
- ChemIDplus
Available through the NIH and NLM
More information about this resource
- Registry of Toxic Effects
of Chemical Substances - abbreviated RTECS
Some in D.H. Hill Library stacks, some in microform
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The sources in this section give you journal article
reference(s) to locate a preparation (also referred to as a
"synthesis") of your compound. You need to locate the article itself to learn
about the method of synthesis. (What is a "scholarly
journal"?)
After you use these sources to obtain a journal article reference for a
synthesis, you will need to check the NCSU
Libraries Catalog to
determine whether we have the journal, and to obtain the call number for
the journal. Search by
journal title (not article title or author).
If you only have an abbreviated title, go here.
Most syntheses are old, so the journal article may only be
available in print, not online. In addition, older journals will often be at
the Satellite Shelving Facility, not in D.H. Hill. It takes a day or two to
get items from Satellite Shelving, plan ahead!
Places to find synthesis references:
- Dictionary of Organic Compounds-
TRY THIS FIRST.
D. H. Hill Reference QD246 .D5
Available electronically through ChemNetBase
- Merck Index
Online via NCSU Libraries subscription
D. H. Hill Reference RS51 .M4
- Organic Syntheses
Collective Volumes I-X, D. H. Hill Reference QD 262 .O72
Annual Volumes - QD262 .O72 (6th floor)
Also online at http://www.orgsyn.org/.
Warning: searching directly in orgsyn.org can be challenging! Search results will often seem unrelated
to your search terms. This is a good lesson about poor search engines and interfaces. This resource IS
very useful if you already know the volume and page you need--you can browse right to it.
- Handbook of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
D. H. Hill Reference QD77 .H37 1999
- SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)
The Chemical Abstracts database is searchable online using SciFinder
Scholar software, available on library computers (PCs only) and many
chemistry lab computers. Find your chemical, then search Reaction Information
(A-->B) as a product. (More detailed help here.)
- Other chemistry databases
Available through NCSU Libraries
Try Web of Science (also known as Science Citation Index Expanded),
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, or another chemistry database. Try searching for your chemical and
synthesis (or a synonym) as search terms.
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Click on individual title to link to electronic resources, or details about print resources.
- Aldrich: Advancing Science
(Aldrich Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals)
Spectra sometimes available on the web version of Aldrich at http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/
- Aldrich Library of 13C and 1H FT
NMR Spectra - abbreviated FT-NMR in Aldrich
Catalog
D. H. Hill Reference QC462.85 .A44
- Aldrich Library of FT-IR
Spectra - abbreviated FT-IR in Aldrich
Catalog
D. H. Hill Reference QD96 .I5 P66
- SDBS,
Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
Online at: http://riodb01.ibase.aist.go.jp/sdbs/cgi-bin/cre_index.cgi?lang=eng
- NIST Chemistry Webbook
Online at: http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry
- NMRShiftDB
Online at: http://www.nmrshiftdb.org/
- Dictionary of Organic
Compounds
D. H. Hill Reference QD246 .D5 (9 volumes)
Look for references ending in (ir) or (nmr)
Available electronically through ChemNetBase
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