LibGuides: Biochemistry Resources: Chemical Identification

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CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool
The CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool is an online resource intended to support researchers and librarians who need accurate bibliographic information. Use this free tool to quickly identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications.
Chemical Acronyms & Abbreviations
The special data base of abbreviations of chemical compound names has been incorporated
Common Chemistry
Search Chemical Names and CAS Registry Numbers for 8,000 chemicals of widespread general public interest.
PubChem

PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. PubChem is organized as three linked databases within NCBI: PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool. A self-paced PubChem tutorial is available.

As of December 2022, ChemIDplus and Drug Information Portal Content are only available through PubChem.
eMolecule Search
This chemical structure search engine (compatible with ChemDraw) containing 7 million unique chemical structures from 21 million sources. Find suppliers and information for over 9 million unique chemicals.

Structural formula of methane (Image source: wikipedia.org).