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Substance SearchWelcome to Common Chemistry™ from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a web resource that contains CAS Registry Numbers for approximately 7,800 chemicals of widespread general public interest. Common Chemistry is helpful to non-chemists who know either a name or CAS Registry Number® of a common chemical and want to pair both pieces of information. The CAS Registry Number is the universally recognized unique identifier of chemical substances and is often found on packaging and on articles of commerce. While not a comprehensive CAS Registry Number lookup service, Common Chemistry does provide a way to quickly and easily find names or CAS Registry Numbers for chemicals of general interest. CAS has collaborated with Wikipedia in developing this resource and encourages you to use the Wikipedia link (when available) or other sources of general information on chemistry, to learn more about these chemicals. |
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May 11, 2009
RSC Acquires ChemSpider
I just got the announcement from the Royal Society of Chemistry on their acquisition of ChemSpider, a free online resouce based on structure searching, which was blogged earlier on DrexelChemistry. For more information on the acquisition go to: RSC acquires ChemSpider
For information on ChemSpider go to: http://www.chemspider.com/
I just hope that this resouce STAYS free!
April 17, 2009
The All Results Journals: Chemistry
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The All Results Journals is a family of open-access electronic-only journals publishing “secondary” results across the fields of Chemistry, Biology, Nanotechnology and Physics. At present, within the research community, more than 60% of the experiments fail to produce results or expected discoveries. Even though, as in many cases this would be frustrating from an objective point of view, this high percentage of “failed” research generates high level knowledge. But generally, all these experiments have not been published anywhere as they have been considered useless for our research target. The All Results Journals: Chem focuses on recovering and publishing those experiments that either failed or led to “unexpected” results within all areas of Chemistry. The publication of these results has an essential value in any real science-based empirical knowledge. We hope being a must-read journal when starting a new project in any field of Chemistry. Please visit ABOUT for more details and our Author Guidelines for submitting your work.
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March 12, 2009
Speed Dating and Mass Spectroscopy!
This is for my favorite mass spectroscopists…
January 7, 2009
Remove Duplicates Now Available in SciFinder Web
News Flash!
I just discovered you can now “remove duplicates” from you results list when searching SciFinder Web. Because you can search Chem Abs and Medline in a single search the ability to remove duplicates was highly desirable. This was not a function of SciFinder Web until relatively recently. One BIG caveat! You can only remove duplicates for results sets less than 10,000 hits. The “Remove Duplicates” appears in the divider band just above your results list. Progress!
September 17, 2008
Periodic Table of Videos
There are many web pages out there that offer wonderfully interactive periodic tables. This site offers a short video presentation on each element of the periodic table. These videos demonstrate, discuss, and generally explain something interesting about the element. It is totally entertaining to boot!
Check out IRON
Go to: http://www.periodicvideos.com/
August 25, 2008
ACS Member Network
The American Chemical Society has just launched its flavor of social networking. ACS claims it’s the world’s largest scientific society for chemical professionals. It’s safe. It’s searchable. It’s FREE. And it’s a great way to stay connected with the best and brightest.
- Create and build your personal scientific network
- Find friends and colleagues by career, education, local section, and divisions
- Collaborate and share scientific research
- Search for publications information
- Highlight your involvement with ACS
- Keep up-to-date with ACS membership activities
For more information go to : ACS Member Network
August 19, 2008
Chemistry Department to Host ChemSpider Seminar
I know all you chemistry folks are busy with the annual conference of the American Chemical Society here in Philadelphia this week, but I hope you can spare some energy to attend this seminar. I have spoken about ChemSpider in this blog earlier (August 1, 2008). This is well worth your time.
The Department of Chemistry will host a seminar, “ChemSpider: Weaving a Web of Chemistry,” with Anthony Williams, president of ChemSpider, on Thursday, August 21, 2008 from 2 to 3 p.m. in room 109 Disque Hall (32nd Street between Market and Chestnut Streets).
ChemSpider is a new resource to provide access to chemistry-related information and has been built with a structure-centric focus and the application of community-based curation to enhance the quality of public domain data. The ChemSpider platform presently holds information for close to 22 million chemicals and provides semantic links to more than 130 datasources. This presentation will provide an overview of ChemSpider, a vision of future directions and a hands-on tutorial on how to use the system.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information or to RSVP, email professor Jean-Claude Bradley at Jean-Claude.Bradley@drexel.edu.
