Chemical Suppliers and Catalogs

• Chemical Online Community - Find information on chemistry related equipment and supplies, and sign up for free to receive weekly newsletters designed for industry professionals.

• ChemNavigator - Search more than 28 million unique structures from more than 300 suppliers. Free to FNLCR scientists after registering with an NIH email address. If you do not find the substance you are looking for ready-made, use the SCSORS service to get bids from thousands of companies to have the substance custom made. (NIH/FNLCR)

• Dow Chemicals

• DuPont

• eMolecules - Search more than 8 million unique chemicals from various suppliers, plus entries from NIST, PubChem and DrugBank.

• Fisher Scientific Internet Catalog

• Reaxys - Search for compounds by structure, properties, journal citation, name, or other chemical identifier. If a vendor for a compound is known, a Red Flask icon will appear beneath the compound's structure in the results set. Click the Red Flask, select the e-Molecules link, then click the big red Check Prices button to compare prices. Online Tutorials Available (NIH/FNLCR)

• SciFinder - Search for compounds by structure, journal citation, name, or other chemical identifier. On the results page for any substance, click the Orange Flask with the Yellow Price Tag to find suppliers for that compound. To apply for account access, visit SciFinder: Site-Wide Access. Online Tutorials Available (NIH/FNLCR)

• Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Company

• WWW Chemicals - Includes chemical catalogs, chemical equipment, chemical companies directory; structure searching available.

• ZINC - a free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening. ZINC contains over 13 million purchasable compounds in ready-to-dock, 3D formats. ZINC is provided by the Shoichet Laboratory in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Learn more about ZINC.