Chemical Suppliers and Catalogs
Here is a selection of catalog sites for
laboratory-grade specialty chemicals. (For industrial products and bulk commodity price information, see the pathfinder on
Chemical Engineering Economics. Don't use research chemical catalogs for plant estimation projects.)
: Restricted to UT-Austin
: Recommended
- Alfa Aesar
- Specialty and bulk, high purity inorganics, precious metal compounds, rare earths, organics and organometallics, high purity metals and materials, etc.
- ChemExper Chemical Directory
- Catalog information from multiple suppliers.
- eMolecules
- An open-access chemistry search engine. Search for chemical structures and names and find links to suppliers and other information in public databases.
- 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.
- R&D Chemicals
- A meta-directory of chemicals from various suppliers.
- SciFinder
- Use the "Explore Substances" tab to locate the Registry record for a compound, and click on "Commercial Sources" to link to CHEMCATS, a database of chemical suppliers that provides laboratory-quantity prices and sources for that chemical. Supplier data can be exported to a spreadsheet if desired.
- Sigma-Aldrich Catalog
- 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. Includes a Structure Database with 127,000 3-D structures from NCI.
