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Physical Property Searches
Finding Data 101
A basic web tutorial covering the use of three first-stop resources for locating physical property data for chemical compounds: the CRC Handbook; DIPPR; and the NIST Chemistry WebBook. |
Searching in Infotherm
Learn more about the efficient use of the features of Infotherm with interactive tutorials. It will take a few minutes per tutorial to walk through. |
Substance and Reaction Searching in Reaxys
Hands-on tutorial for searching substances and reactions by structure in Reaxys using MarvinSketch. Reaxys is provided by Elsevier. For more information see https://www.reaxys.com/info/ |


Using SpringerMaterials to Locate Your Landolt-Börnstein Volume and Chapter
A handout with instructions on using SpringerMaterials to locate chemical and physical property data, and how to use the information in SpringerMaterials to obtain the chapter in Landolt-Börnstein (New Series). First posted March 2011. Updated February 2013 and May 2015. University of California affiliates should use the guide posted at http://www.cdlib.org/services/info_services/instruct/. |
How to Find Physical and Thermodynamic Properties of Chemcial Substance
A Libguide providing narrated an non-narrated Powerpoint Presentations teaching students how to find physical and thermodynamic data from print and electronic resources. A long list of electronic resources is provide. It may be accessed at http://researchguides.njit.edu/physical_properties |


Finding Solubility Information for Organic Compounds
Brief (one page) handout for beginning organic chemistry laboratory students on finding solubility of common organic compounds in standard solvents. |
Finding Optical Rotation Data for Organic Compounds
Brief (one page) handout for beginning organic chemistry laboratory students on locating optical rotation data for common organic compounds. |
Converting Lab Data to Search Strategies
This handout summarizes ways students in a sophomore level organic chemistry class can search data from the lab (e.g, heteratom information, physical properties, spectral data) in Integrated Spectral Database of Organic Compounds (SDBS), Properties of Organic Chemistry (POC), Dictionary of Organic Chemistry (DOC), Reaxys, and SciFinder. |
Chemistry 130 Search Tips (Winter 2008)
Summary showing how to convert lab data into search strategies to identify unknown organic compounds. |