Chemical and Structural Databases
- ChemSpider
- Text or structure-based chemistry information, spectra and properties from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- Thermochemical data and spectra from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- USDA Nutrient Database
- Energy content of a wide variety of foods from the United States Department of Agriculture. Enter keyword (e.g. peanut or corn puff) and press return. Then click on the report button (a 100 g sample size is convenient.)
- Pubchem Compounds
- Free repository non-curated database of 100 million chemical molecules.
- Protein Data Bank
- Open-access repository for the 3D atomic structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, and their complexes.
- Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
- Repository for small molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures. Structure publications include the CCDC code as supporting information.
- Crystallography Open Database
- Open-access crystal structure repository for organic, inorganic, metal-organic compounds and minerals.
- American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
- Crystal structure database focused on minerals and solids of interest to mineralogists.
- Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules
- Important molecules and minerals in soil and environmental sciences.
- Database of Zeolite Structures
- Repository for framework types from the Structure Commission of the International Zeolite Association.
- FDA DailyMed
- FDA labels and package inserts of marketed drugs for each brand name.
- DrugBank
- Drug data and drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information.
- Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI)
- Dictionary of small chemical compounds from the European Bioinformatics Institute. Select the stars option (manually curated data.)
Other Sources
- Total Syntheses
- Name reactions, organic synthesis search by transformation, protecting groups, and total syntheses
- ChemSpider SyntheticPages
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- Interactive database of synthetic chemistry hosted at the Royal Society of Chemistry. "We publish practical and reliable organic, organometallic and inorganic chemical synthesis, reactions and procedures deposited by synthetic chemists. Synthetic methods on the site are updated continuously by chemists working in academic and industrial research laboratories. ChemSpider SyntheticPages encourages submissions from graduate students, postdocs, industrialists and academics."
- Molbank
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- One compound per paper (Open Access Journal)
- Compound Interest, Andy Brunning, Cambridge University
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- Graphics information about everyday chemicals, often published in C&EN.
- Molecule of the month, Paul May, Bristol University
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- Monthly molecules since 1996
Last updated
December 15, 2025
by George Lisensky