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[*] posted on 30-3-2018 at 21:52
Search engine for chemistry


Anyone think if the is such a thing like google for chemistry

http://www.organic-chemistry.org/chemicals/search.htm
http://www.chemspider.com

Or any exact search engine or indexed database of chemicals
And verious types of chemisty electrochemistry organic etc

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[*] posted on 31-3-2018 at 04:18


Reaxys is probably the best example, but it's not free (although if you're at a university you likely have access). You should see the "Reaxys and Scifinder Requests" thread.



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[*] posted on 31-3-2018 at 16:54


Wait, but google is a good search engine for chemistry. It might be hard to use because it's a general search engine, but with some experience you might get decent results. For example, reaxys cannot search through books, while google has mind-blowing amount of scanned books with reacognized and searchable text.
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[*] posted on 31-3-2018 at 17:22


Google scholar is not bad. Although I can't compare with reacsys.
And you can also do patent searches.

But if I am honest, I seldom need anything particularly scholarly or technical. The vast majority of my searches are for basic properties and information and for that I usually look up the data table in wikipedia.

It all comes down to what you actually need. The limiting factor is not usually the strength of the search engine or the free availability of the information. The limiting factor is usually knowing what you need to know.




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[*] posted on 1-4-2018 at 03:33


https://libgen.pw/ offers various ebooks, mostly in pdf. It has some that archive.org and google can't find. For example it has all google ebooks (google books which contain ebook), which google only offers partially, asks for money...

And best book for chemical data, all in one, is CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 2016-2017: https://libgen.pw/item/detail/id/5a1f059d3a044650f51301e0
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