Electronic Resources

Gmelin Database

The CrossFire Gmelin database is the world's most comprehensive data collection in organometallic and inorganic chemistry, covering literature from the year 1772 to today. The database contains over 2.2 million compounds, more than 1.6 million reactions, and 1.1 million citations, including titles and abstracts from 1995. CrossFire Gmelin is fully searchable by structures, substructures, and reactions. The data are indexed from 62 journals (PDF: 129 KB). With simple queries, more than 800 chemical and physical data fields, including electric, magnetic, thermal, crystal, and physiological data can be accessed to provide relevant answer sets. CrossFire Gmelin answers informatics needs in the material science, catalyst, and semiconductor industries.CrossFire Gmelin also complements CrossFire Beilstein Â?s organic chemistry content. The Gmelin database is updated quarterly.

Special Instructions:
This database requires the MDL Commander software to run. The software can be downloaded from the Beilstein/Gmelin Help site.

The Crossfire Beilstein (and Gmelin) databases are now available on two workstations in the Science & Engineering Library.

Contact chemistry subject librarian Norah Xiao for username and password that you will need to access Gmelin.

Holdings: varies

Note: When you launch Gmelin (remember you need to download a file to your computer to run Crossfire; contact alan.stevens@usc.edu or sarat@usc.edu for more information), it will default to Beilstein, but you will have the option to also, or only, open Gmelin in the "Select Database" window at the top of the screen. Or, under the "Query" menu you can select "Database Information" to choose Gmelin. Crossfire Beilstein and Gmelin guides are available under the "Help" menu.

For USC users only. Requires USC network connection.