Spectra

From WolfWikis

Try the following resources for spectra.

Online

• SDBS, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
  • Available online

• NIST Webbook
  • Available online

• Aldrich (Aldrich Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals)
  • Spectra available on the web version of Aldrich at http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/

• ChemExper
  • Available online

• Dictionary of Organic Compounds
  • Reference QD246 .D5 (9 volumes), look for references ending in (ir) or (nmr)
  • Available online through ChemNetBase

In the library

• Hundreds of atlases and more specialized books are available in the library.
  • Try narrowing your search by type of spectra or application
  • See finding spectra in the library for more help

The Aldrich Library are good general atlases of NMR and IR spectra:

• Aldrich Library of 13C and 1H FT NMR Spectra - abbreviated FT-NMR in Aldrich Catalog
  • Reference QC462.85 .A44
• Aldrich Library of FT-IR Spectra - abbreviated FT-IR in Aldrich Catalog
  • Reference QD96 .I5 P66

Other places to look

If you can't locate a spectrum in any of the reference materials, you may need to locate the spectrum, or even simply spectroscopic data, from a literature search.

See the chemical literature page for help with this. SciFinder Scholar is the recommended database for this task.