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Combined catalogues of chemical suppliers


  • Available Chemical Directory (ACD)

    • Access Conditions: Pay per view (via Chemweb) or database license
    • Total Products: about 1 million
    • Unique Chemicals: about 400,000
    • Total Suppliers: over 680
    • Access Types: WWW, SDfile, RDfile, Relational Chemical Gateway for use with MDL ISIS, Chemical Products Information File (built in Oracle)
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: Y
      • Exact structure: Y
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: Y
      • Full name: Y
      • Partial name: Y
      • Molecular formula (range): Y
      • Molecular weight (range): Y
      • Prefered vendors: Y

  • Buyer's Guide Chem

    • Access Conditions: Free
    • Total Products: 139,000
    • Unique Chemicals:
    • Total Suppliers: 4,570
    • Access Types: WWW
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: N
      • Exact structure: N
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: N
      • Full name: Y
      • Partial name: Y
      • Molecular formula (range): N
      • Molecular weight (range): N
      • Prefered vendors: N

  • ChemACX

    • Access Conditions: Free individual access, annual subscription basis for academic institutions and government organizations
    • Total Products: 733,100
    • Unique Chemicals: 352,300
    • Total Suppliers: 405
    • Access Types: WWW, DVD
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: Y (requires ChemDraw Plugin Net 7.0)
      • Exact structure: Y (requires ChemDraw Plugin Net 7.0)
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: Y (ACX number)
      • Full name: Y
      • Partial name: Y
      • Molecular formula (range): Y
      • Molecular weight (range): Y
      • Prefered vendors: Y


  • CHEMCATS

    • Access Conditions: Database license
    • Total Products: More than 11 million catalog records
    • Unique Chemicals:
    • Total Suppliers: 800
    • Access Types: STN (International, Easy, Web), SciFinder (Scholar).
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: Y
      • Exact structure: Y
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: Y
      • Full name: Y
      • Partial name: Y
      • Molecular formula (range): Y
      • Molecular weight (range): Y
      • Prefered vendors: Y

  • Chemcyclopedia 2002

    • Access Conditions: Free
    • Total Products:
    • Unique Chemicals:
    • Total Suppliers:
    • Access Types:
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: N
      • Exact structure: N
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: N
      • Full name: N
      • Partial name: N
      • Molecular formula (range): N
      • Molecular weight (range): N
      • Prefered vendors: N

  • ChemExper Home Page

    • Access Conditions: free
    • Total Products: over 200,000
    • Unique Chemicals:
    • Total Suppliers: over 20
    • Access Types: WWW
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: Y
      • Exact structure: Y
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: Y
      • Full name: Y (including synonyms)
      • Partial name: N
      • Molecular formula (range): Y
      • Molecular weight (range): Y
      • Prefered vendors: N
      • Physical characteristics: Y (boiling point, melting point, refractive index, density, optical rotation)

  • Chemfindit.com

    • Access Conditions: free
    • Total Products: over 684,000
    • Unique Chemicals:
    • Total Suppliers: over 41,000
    • Access Types: WWW
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: N
      • Exact structure: N
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: N
      • Full name: Y (including synonyms)
      • Partial name: Y
      • Molecular formula (range): Y
      • Molecular weight (range): N
      • EINEC Number: Y
      • Prefered vendors: N
      • Physical characteristics: N

  • Chemical Information Services Pathfinder

    • Access Conditions: subscription (one search, annual)
    • Total Products: More than 23,000
    • Unique Chemicals:
    • Total Suppliers:
    • Access Types: WWW, CD, book
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure:
      • Exact structure:
      • Registry number:
      • Catalogue number:Y
      • Full name:Y
      • Partial name:Y
      • Molecular formula (range):
      • Molecular weight (range):
      • Prefered vendors:
      • Physical characteristics:

  • Chemicals Available for Purchase (CAP)

    • Access Conditions: Database license
    • Total Products: 568,712 unique reagents and 3,136,492 screening compounds
    • Unique Chemicals: 568,712
    • Total Suppliers: 94
    • Access Types: Accord Database Explorer (ADE), AEI format or RD file
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: Y
      • Exact structure: Y
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: Y
      • Full name: Y
      • Partial name: Y
      • Molecular formula (range): Y
      • Molecular weight (range):
      • Physical characteristics: Y
      • Degree of similarity: Y
      • Prefered vendors:

  • Chem Sources Chemical Directory

    • Access Conditions: Free searching, pay per detailed view, subscriptions, purchase CD-rom
    • Total Products: about 275,000
    • Unique Chemicals:
    • Total Suppliers: over 8,000
    • Access Types: WWW, on-line (STN or datastar), printed and CD-rom version
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: N
      • Exact structure: N
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: N
      • Full name: Y
      • Partial name: Y
      • Trade name: Y
      • Molecular formula (range): Y
      • Molecular weight (range): N
      • Prefered vendors: N
      • Application: Y

  • R&D Chemicals

    • Access Conditions: Free
    • Total Products:
    • Unique Chemicals:
    • Total Suppliers:
    • Access Types: WWW
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: Y
      • Exact structure: Y
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: Y
      • Full name: Y
      • Partial name: Y
      • Trade name: Y
      • Molecular formula (range): N
      • Molecular weight (range): N
      • Prefered vendors: N

  • Metaxchem
    • Access Conditions: Free
    • Total Products:
    • Unique Chemicals:
    • Total Suppliers: 8
    • Access Types: WWW
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: Y
      • Exact structure: Y
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: Y
      • Full name: Y
      • Partial name: Y
      • Trade name: Y
      • Molecular formula (range): Y
      • Molecular weight (range): N

  • WWW Chemicals

    • Access Conditions: Free
    • Total Products:
    • Unique Chemicals:
    • Total Suppliers:
    • Access Types: WWW
    • Searchable by:
      • Substructure: Y (limited)
      • Exact structure: Y (limited)
      • Registry number: Y
      • Catalogue number: Y
      • Full name: Y
      • Partial name: Y
      • Molecular formula (range): N
      • Molecular weight (range): N
      • Prefered vendors: N