Skip to Main Content

Physical Chemistry: Books

Designed to be useful and relevant, this guide will provide you with access to a range of key library and information resources to aid your studies/research in Physical Chemistry

Core Books in Physical Chemistry

Open Chemistry Resources

Merlot II Chemistry Community Portal - From California Institute of Technology, this site provides access to 3,817 Chemistry e-resources.
eMolecules - empowers researchers to explore uncharted chemical and biological spaces and deliver more efficient drug-discovery programs.

ChemWeb - ChemWeb.com provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research, product development, self-development, education, and/or their businesses in Chemistry and related disciplines

ChemSpider  is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 67 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
American Chemical Society (ACS)  - ACS's mission is to advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and its people.It's vision is to improve people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry
Chem Tool Box -  contains numerous scientific data that is very useful in a laboratory. More precisely, it acts as an ideal partner of chemists (organic chemistry, analytical chemistry or polymer chemistry), biologists and biochemists.
ChemlDplus  is a chemical dictionary and structure database from the National Library of Medicine. ChemIDplus is constantly updated, and includes substance records for 389,810 substances from over 70 resources, including NLM databases, international chemical substance inventories, and other web databases from the EPA, NIH, WHO, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other organizations.
Interactive Periodic Table - The Royal Society of Chemistry's interactive periodic table features history, alchemy, podcasts, videos, and data trends across the periodic table.

Physical Chemistry e-Books

Encyclopedias, Handbooks & Manuals

Encyclopedias are a great resource for gathering background information.  They act as good starting points and are more authoritative than Wikipedia.

Other Readings

Other places to find books

Library Catalogue

Bookshelf
Bookshelf provides free online access to books in life science and healthcare. A vital node in the data-rich resource network at NCBI, Bookshelf enables you to easily browse, retrieve, and read content, and makes discovery of related information possible.
OpenStax provides peer reviewed, openly licensed and 100% free textbooks backed by additional learning resources.
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality.