Research Guides: Library Resources & Tips for CHEM630: Chemical Structures

Search by Chemical Structure

The following tools allow you to draw a structural formula and search for known compounds with similar structures:

EMolecules
Find Suppliers and Information for over 8 Million Unique Chemicals.
ChemSpider - Structure Search
Easy to use. Draw structures and search by similarity. Provides physical properties, Chemical ID numbers, and relevant literature of results.

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Search Chemical Abstracts. Also access CAS Registry of 20M+ substances and Medline.
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The following databases provide structural formula:

PubChem
Three linked databases within the National Center for Biotechnology Information Entrez information retrieval system. You can search these databases by names, synonyms, keywords: PubChem Substance; PubChem Compound; PubChem BioAssay.
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information.