Chemical Literature for Chem 174/274

Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can save a couple of hours in the library. - Frank H. Westheimer, chemistry professor

Beginning a search for information on a inorganic or organometallic compound

Most sources on Reserve and/or shelved in Ready Reference (RR) in SEL/Chemistry Collection

Aldrich Catalog/Handbook of Fine Chemicals
Aldrich Catalog <www.sigma-aldrich.com>
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics <http://www.hbcpnetbase.com>
The Merck Index
Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds
Dictionary of Organometallic Compounds
Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry

CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) Registry numbers – over 35 million (19.1 million substances, 16.2 million biosequences)

Comprehensive sources for chemical information
(indexes for journal articles -- search by authors and titles of articles)

Chemical Abstracts, 1907+
SciFinder Scholar® 2000, 1907+ <http://dirac.chem.ucla.edu/scifind>)
Physics Abstracts, 1898+
INSPEC, 1969+ < http://www.dbs.cdlib.org>
Current Contents <www.dbs.cdlib.org>
Web of Science (Science Citation Index) < http://www.webofscience.com>

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General inorganic sources

Huheey, James E, and others. Inorganic chemistry (see Appendix A for a list of useful references)
Skoog, Douglas A., and others. Fundamental of analytical chemistry

Spectra sources (Most sources shelved in Spectra Section)

Aldrich Library of spectra -- collections of FTIR, NMR, UV-Vis
Sadtler Spectra -- collections of IR, Raman, NMR, UV-Vis and more
IR & NMR <http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~webspectra>

Safety sources

Bretherick’s Handbook of reactive chemical hazards. 5^th ed. Oxford, Boston,
Butterworths-Heinemann, 1995.
(SEL/Chem T 55.3 H3 B755 1995 Ready Reference)

CRC Handbook of laboratory safety. 3^rd ed. Boca Raton, Florida, CRC Press, 1990
(SEL/Chem QD 51 C73 1990 Ready Reference)

Prudent practices in the laboratory: Handling and disposal of chemicals.
Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 1995
(SEL/Chem T 55.3 H3 P78 1995 Ready Reference)

Sax's Dangerous properties of industrial materials. 9^th ed. New York, Van Nostrand
Reinhold, 1996.
(SEL/Chem T 55.3 H3 L5 1996 Ready Reference)

Material Safety Data Sheets (UCOP) <http://www.ucop.edu/riskmgt/ohp/msds.html>

Citing sources:

ACS style guide, a manual for authors and editors. 2^nd ed. Washington, DC.
American Chemical Society, 1997.
(SEL/Chem QD 8.5 A25 1997 Reserve)

Preferred format:

Chemistry (see Journal of the American Chemical Society)
Biochemistry (see Biochemistry)

Example: Journal citation (typical)

author’s last name and first name or initials
title of the journal article
title of the journal in which the article appeared, usually abbreviated
date of that volume, including the year and sometimes the month
volume, and issue, of the journal in which the article appeared
pages on which the article appears

Wilkinson, Geoffrey, and others. “The Structure of Iron Bis-cyclopentadienyl". J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1952, 74, 2125-2126.

Web sites to explore:

NIST Chemistry Webbook <http://webbook.nist.gov>
CS ChemFinder Web Server <http://www.chemfinder.com>
IUPAC Nomenclature <http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac>
Chemistry internet resources: <http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/98-winter/interne1.html>
Periodic table: <http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/980112/periodic.html>
(PDF version) <http://www.webelements.com/webelements.html>
Chart: <http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic>

Library Web sites:
UCLA Science & Engineering Library <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/sel>

Electronic Resources in the Sciences <http://www.library.ucla.edu/etext/sciences>
UCLA Online Resources < http://eresources.library.ucla.edu/>
UCLA Library <http://www.library.ucla.edu>
UCLA's Books, Journals, and other materials: ORION2 <http://orion2.library.ucla.edu>
CDL’s Melvyl Catalog plus <http://www.cdlib.org/collections>
UCLA's Interlibrary Loan <http://www.library.ucla.edu/ill/index.html>
UCLA Proxy Server: <http://www.bol.ucla.edu/services/proxy>