Beilstein & Gmelin via CrossFire  Tags: chemical_information chemistry beilstein gmelin crossfire  

• 11 million organic substances
• 22.7 million reactions
• 2.2 million citations
• 174 journals indexed

• 2.7 million inorganic & organometallic substances
• 2.1 million reations
• 1.4 million citations
• 62 journals indexed

Access to Beilstein and Gmelin via CrossFire is available to faculty, staff and students at UC San Diego, as well as patrons visiting the UCSD Libraries.

Beilstein and Gmelin are databases of organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds:  structures, reactions and physical/chemical property data.

• Search compounds in Beilstein and Gmelin by chemical name, molecular formula or CAS registry number.
  
  
• Draw structures, substructures or reactions with the structure editor.
  
  
• Each reaction and property data "fact" is accomanied by one or more literature references (mostly journal articles, some older patents). Use the full-text link next to the reference to connect to the online article if available, or the library catalog to check print holdings.
  
  
• Beilstein and Gmelin are based on handbook series indexing the chemical literature and data going back to 1780 and 1800 respectively. 
  
  
• Because they index a small number of journals and there are no abstracts before 1979, Beilstein and Gmelin are not ideal for keyword/topic searching. SciFinder, Web of Science and PubMed are recommended databases for keyword and topic-based searching.