Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship	Winter 1998

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Chemistry Resources on the Internet

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Chemical Suppliers

Unless otherwise specified, these sites contain basic product and service descriptions and contact information.

{Acros Organics}
http://www.be.acros.com/
This site provides a catalog searchable by name, mol. formula and CAS Registry Number. Records contain physical data, availability and links to MSDS. See also Fisher Scientific below.
Aldrich Chemical - See Sigma-Aldrich below.
Alfa Aesar
http://www.alfa.com/
This site provides contact information for the Alfa Aesar division of Johnson Matthey. An online catalog of products is available, indexed by name and CAS Registry Number. Product records provide basic physical property data, and sometimes background information.
Argus Chemicals
http://www.argus.it/
Argus Chemicals is a rare & fine chemicals firm specializing in amines, organophosphorus and organoarsenic compounds and reagents for asymmetric synthesis. The site includes a browsable partial catalog.
{BASF Corporation
http://www.basf.com/index.html
This site includes browsable and searchable catalogs of BASF's wide range of chemical products. European users may wish to go to their {German} site at http://www.basf.com/de/.
{BCN Chemicals, Inc.}
http://www.bcnchem.com/
This site has a searchable catalog of BCN products.
{ChemConnect}
http://www.chemconnect.com/
This site provides searchable catalogs of chemicals, other supplies and their manufacturers from hundreds of companies. Manufacturer listings have e-mail links and links to the manufacturer's own home pages where available. ChemConnect also maintains the Web's best list of e-journals in chemistry.
{Chemcyclopedia}
http://www.mediabrains.com/client/chemcyclop/BG1/search.asp
This annual ACS publication provides searchable and browsable lists of various categories of commercially available chemicals from hundreds of companies, with links to manufacturer contact information. No prices or links to manufacturers home pages are given.
{ChemExper}
http://www.chemexper.com/
This site provides a searchable catalog of chemicals from over twenty different chemical companies, searchable by name, molecular formula and CAS Registry Number. Records include basic physical data, availability information and MSDS from the U. of Utah database.
ChemExpo - Virtual Trade Show
http://www.chemexpo.com/
This site contains a large searchable list of chemical companies and their products, with contact information for the companies, as well as a chemical industry news section.
Dojindo Laboratories
http://www.dojindo.co.jp/
This site includes browsable and searchable catalogs of Dojindo's collection of bioscience and analytical reagents, as well as MSDS for all their products.
Dow Chemical Co.
http://www.dow.com/
DuPont Company, Performance Lubricants
http://www.lubricants.dupont.com/
Eastman Chemicals
http://www.eastman.com/
This site includes contact and employment opportunities information. There is some property data on Eastman products available, but it is very poorly organized and difficult to locate or extract.
{Fisher Scientific, Inc.}
http://www.fishersci.com/
Includes searchable catalogs for Fisher Scientific, Fisher Chemical, Acros Organics and Curtin Matheson. Materials Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) were formerly available, but that information has apparently been removed from the site.
{Harris Specialty Chemicals}
http://www.hsc-ss.com/index.html
Includes a searchable catalog for their PCR research chemicals division.
Hoechst AG
http://www.hoechst.com/
J.M. Huber Co.
http://www.huber.com/
J.M. Huber is principally a manufacturer of silicas, silicates and clays.
{Lancaster Synthesis}
http://www.rdchemicals.com/fine-chemicals/lancaster-synthesis.html
Lancaster's web site includes contact and order information. The company's searchable catalog is not located at this site, but they do have a link to one at the WWW Chemicals site ({http://wwwlchem.com/Lancaster.html}) which provides CAS Registry Numbers, molecular formula and weight and a variety of physical data.
Pilot Chemical Co.
http://www.pilotchemical.com/
Pilot Chemical is a custom surfactants manufacturer.
SciQuest
http://www.sciquest.com/
SciQuest provides a searchable and browsable collection of links to a vast number of chemical and equipment suppliers. Users may enter as guests, or register as members free of charge.
{Sherrod Research's List of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies on the Web}
http://www.sherrodresearch.com/links/lists.html
Over 1200 company sites listed as of January, 1998.
{Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Co.}
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/
Sigma-Aldrich Chemical's web site features separate catalogs for Sigma, Aldrich and Fluka and others. They are crudely searchable by keyword. Some records have CAS Registry Numbers and physical chemical data and references. It also has information on Sigma's biochemical lines and SAF bulk chemicals, product information sheets for Sigma chemicals and the full text of recent issues of Aldrichimica Acta.
WWW Chemicals
http://www.chem.com/
This web site provides a searchable chemical catalog for over twenty different chemical suppliers. The catalogs may be searched by individual company as well. There are also links to a variety of other useful information.

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Chemical Equipment Suppliers

Beckman Instruments, Inc.
http://www.beckman.com/
Cole-Parmer Instrument Company
http://www.coleparmer.com
Cole-Parmer's site contains technical information on some of their products, including a chemical resistance guide for labware materials, and contact information. No online catalog as yet.
{Hitachi Instruments}
http://www.hitachi-hta.com/
{Indigo Instruments}
https://www.indigo.com/
{LabGuide}
http://pubs3.acs.org:8889/lg97/index.html
This is the electronic version of the 1997/98 LabGuide issue of Analytical Chemistry, with contact information and links to the Web sites where available for a host of analytical equipment suppliers.
Mettler-Toledo, Inc.
http://www.mt.com/
{Millipore On-Line Catalogue}
http://catalog.millipore.com/scripts/millipore.dll/login/=user=Guest
{Omega Engineering, Inc.}
http://www.omega.com/
Manufacturers of a wide variety of sensors and control devices.
SciQuest
http://www.sciquest.com/
SciQuest provides a searchable and browsable collection of links to a vast number of chemical and equipment suppliers. Users may enter as guests, or register as members free of charge.
Spectrocell
http://spectrocell.com/
A manufacturer of spectroscopic cells and cuvettes. This site contains a complete catalog with prices.

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Chemical Software Suppliers

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.
http://www.acdlabs.com/
ACD produces chemical drawing and property prediction software. ACD/ChemSketch 1.0 is downloadable freeware. Currently, this site offers the {ACD/ILab} (http://www.acdlabs.com/ilab/) a structure-based property prediction software tool using a Web/Java interface. It is now available by subscription, but a free demo is available.
{ARSoftware}
http://www.ari.net/ars/
ARSoftware offers a variety of software, mainly for thermodynamic and molecular modeling. Downloadable demo versions are available here.
Bio-Rad Laboratories
http://www.bio-rad.com/
Bio-Rad, noted producer of life-science and analytical products, is also the owner of Sadtler, with databases for IR, Raman and NMR spectroscopy and Softshell, producers of ChemIntosh and ChemWindow structure drawing software. This site has ChemWeb, structure drawing software for creation of .gif files, available for free downloading.
{CambridgeSoft
http://www.cambridgesoft.com/
CambridgeSoft (formerly Cambridge Scientific Computing) produces a wide variety of applications for desktop chemical computing, including ChemOffice, ChemDraw and ChemFinder. They also provide the {ChemFinder WebServer} free Internet database of chemical substance information at http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/.
{Chemical Concepts, GmBh.}
http://www.chemicalconcepts.com/
A division of Wiley/VSH, Chemical Concepts specializes in software for chemical structure elucidation from spectra.
ChemInnovation Software
http://www.cheminnovation.com/
ChemInnovation offers a variety of chemical drawing, naming and molecular modeling software.
{Chemistry Software and Information Resources}
http://www.csir.org/
A host of interesting links related to chemical software, including the Exchange below.
{Chemistry Software Exchange}
http://www.csir.org/
A very extensive collection of links to a wide variety of chemistry software. If you don't find what you want in this article, be sure to try this site!
ChemSW
http://www.chemsw.com/
Formerly WindowChem, ChemiSW is a producer and distributor of chemical software packages which run under Microsoft Windows.
{Cherwell Scientific}
http://www.cherwell.com/
Cherwell is a publisher and distributor of a range of scientific software packages. This site includes downloadable demo packages.
DAYLIGHT Chemical Information Systems, Inc.
http://www.daylight.com
Daylight provides a variety of chemical software applications and programming tools (primarily for the UNIX environment) and a number of chemical structure and reaction databases.
ESM Software
http://www.esm-software.com/
ESM produces the TAPP thermophysical properties database and MAPP engineering materials properties database, as well as marketing related third party software.
Galactic Industries Co.
http://www.galactic.com/
Galactic produces scientific software for the spectroscopy and chromatography communities. The site provides a variety of free demo software for downloading.
{GraphPad Software, Inc.}
http://www.graphpad.com/welcome.htm
Producers of scientific graphing software.
Hypercube, Inc.
http://www.hyper.com/
Hypercube specializes in molecular modeling software. This site includes a software archive of downloadable demos and macros for HyperChem.
{Interactive Simulations, Inc.}
http://www.intsim.com/
Interactive Simulations specializes in molecular modeling and interaction simulation software.
{Jandel Scientific Software}
http://www.jandel.com/
Jandel specializes in data analysis and presentation software. Their products include SigmaPlot and SigmaScan.
{Macintosh Chemistry shareware and freeware at the University of Michigan}
ftp://mac.archive.umich.edu/mac/misc/chemistry
{MacroModel}
http://www.schrodinger.com/
MacroModel is a software package for molecular mechanics modeling of organic and bioorganic molecules.
{MDL Informations Systems, Inc.}
http://www.mdli.com/
Manufacturer of ISIS systems, MACCS, REACCS, etc. A free version of ISIS/Draw is downloadable from this site.
Media Cybernetics
http://www.mediacy.com/
Manufacturers of image analysis software, e.g. for reading of DNA analysis gels.
{MicroSimulations}
http://www.microsimulations.com/
MicroSimulations manufactures a variety of molecular modeling software. Demo versions of their products are downloadable from this site.
Model Science Software
http://modelscience.com/
"Chemistry Lab Simulations for the Classroom, the Laboratory and the Internet"
{Molecular Simulations, Inc.}
http://www.accelrys.com/about/history/msi.html
MSI produces a variety of molecular modeling software. WebLab Viewer, a software package for 3-D viewing of molecular structures in a variety of file formats over the Internet, may be downloaded free of charge
{MOLGEN}
http://www.mathe2.uni-bayreuth.de/molgen/
A suite of programs for molecular structure elucidation [PC]
{MultiSimplex}
http://www.multisimplex.com
Software for sequential experimental design and optimization.
{National Instruments}
http://www.ni.com/
Manufacturers of software and interfaces for PC, Mac and workstation data acquisition, testing and measurement.
{Niles & Associates, Inc.}
http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/
Manufacturers of EndNote Plus bibliographic software.
{Oxford Molecular Group}
http://www.accelrys.com/about/history/oxmol.html
Manufacturers of molecular design software. This page also has product information for CAChe Scientific, a subsidiary which produces structure-property relationship software.
{Research Information Systems}
http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/
This division of ISI produces Pro-Cite and Reference Manager personal bibliographic database software. Free demo software is available.
{Research Software Design}
http://www.researchsoftwaredesign.com/
Producers of Papyrus personal bibliographic database software. Free alpha or beta-test software may be available, depending on the status of their upgrade work.
{Schrödinger, Inc.}
http://www.psgvb.com/
Manufacturers of Jaguar electronic structure calculation software (Hartree-Fock, etc.)
Serena Software
http://www.serenasoft.com/
Manufacturers of molecular modeling software for personal workstations.
{SPSS, Inc.}
http://www.spss.com/
Manufacturers of statistical analysis software.
{Synopsys Scientific Systems}
http://www.synopsys.co.uk/
Synopsys produces software which works with Microsoft Access or Excel to create chemical structure databases. It also provides the free downloadable Accord Chemistry Viewer, a helper application which allows Web browsers to display chemical structures from a variety of file formats.
{Trinity Software}
http://www.hfk.com/trinity.html
Trinity Software is a vendor of software for chemical education and research from a variety of manufacturers.
Tripos, Inc.
http://www.tripos.com/
Tripos produces a wide array of molecular modeling and chemical database software. If you have a Java-enabled browser, you can try their Web-based "Sketch and Fetch" software, which allows online sketching of chemical structures, which can then be searched against several databases mounted at Tripos. The resulting structures can be viewed in VTML 3D images.
Wavefunction, Inc.
http://www.wavefun.com/
Wavefunction produces the Spartan series of computational chemistry software and publishes books on computational chemistry.

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