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Chemical Suppliers and Catalogs

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Note on chemical prices:
Prices for laboratory-grade specialty chemicals usually must be found within a specific supplier's catalog. The library maintains a collection of printed research supplier catalogs on the Handbook Table. For industrial products and bulk commodity price information, see the pathfinder on Chemical Engineering Economics.

Alfa Aesar
Specialty and bulk, high purity inorganics, precious metal compounds, rare earths, organics and organometallics, high purity metals and materials, etc.

BuyersGuideChem
Based in Germany.

CHEMCATS (in SciFinder) U.T. restricted
Selected substance records in the REGISTRY database link to CHEMCATS, a database of chemical suppliers.

ChemExper Chemical Directory
Records contain catalog information from selected suppliers.

ChemicalRegister.com
An international "yellow pages" site listing thousands of chemical products and producers.

Chemical Engineering Buyers' Guide star
Search for products or companies, or browse by category.

Chemical Week Buyers' Guide star
Browse by type of service/product, and search by supplier, product, tradenames, etc.

eMolecules
An open-access chemistry search engine. Search for chemical structures and names and find links to suppliers and other information in public databases. (Formerly known as Chmoogle.)

Fisher Scientific
Many product lines, including Acros Organics. Fisher operates the Chemistry Department's chemical storeroom, and you can log in to the UT Fisher catalog directly here.

ICIS Search
Searchable database of chemical products and suppliers. Formerly the OPD Buyer's Guide.

Informex365.com
Portal for the custom chemical manufacturing marketplace that serves as an online buyer's guide for process chemical reactions. Offers a directory of suppliers for approximately 200 process chemical reactions and allied service listings commonly used within the chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries. This site is an online extension of the InformexUSA show for buyers and sellers of fine, specialty and custom chemicals.

R&D Chemicals
A meta-directory of chemicals from various suppliers.

Sigma-Aldrich Catalog star
Searchable product catalog from a major research chemical supplier. Search by catalog number, name, formula, CAS registry number. Chemical/physical information, structure image, FT-IR and NMR spectra, and MSDS are displayable. Registration is required to view some information.

Spectrum Chemicals
Includes MSDS and NFPA ratings. Including 2000 USP/NF/FCC grade chemicals, DEA controlled substances, research chemicals and allied products.

TCI America
Includes links to the Spectral Data Base System.

WWW Chemicals
Search catalogs and directories for chemicals and equipment. Structures require Chime plugin. Includes a Structure Database with 127,000 3-D structures from NCI.