Chemistry and related ebooks available in Cambridge

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• ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication (subscription renewal date 31 July 2025)

• Alberts & Lewis (2017) Molecular biology of the cell, 6th ed.

• Albright, Burdett & Whangbo (2013) Orbital Interactions in Chemistry, 2nd ed.

• Alnatt & Lidiard (1993). Atomic Transport in Solids.

• Andersson & Munslow (2008) Modern Reduction Methods.

• Angelici (1990) Inorganic Syntheses: Reagents for Transition Metal Complex and Organometallic Syntheses, Volume 28.

• Atkins & Friedman (2005) Molecular Quantum Mechanics, 4th ed.

• Anzenbacher & Zanger (2012) Metabolism of Drugs and Other Xenobiotics.

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• Bagotsky (2005) Fundamentals of Electrochemistry, 2nd ed.

• Balzani (2001) Electron Transfer in Chemistry.

• Bard & Mirkin (2012) Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

• Barin (1995) Thermochemical Data of Pure Substances, 3rd ed.

• Barrat & Hansen (2003). Basic Concepts for Simple and Complex Liquids.

• Barrett (2001) Structure and bonding.

• Basset, Psaro, Roberto & Ugo (2009) Modern Surface Organometallic Chemistry.

• Bates (2013) Organic synthesis using transition metals, 2nd ed.

• Bäuerlein (2007) Handbook of Biomineralization 3v. set.

• Beller & Bohm (2004) Transition Metals for Organic Synthesis: Building Blocks and Fine Chemicals, 2nd Revised and Enlarged Ed. 

• Benfenati (2022) In Silico Methods for Predicting Drug Toxicity, 2nd ed.

• Berg et al. (2019) Biochemistry, 9th ed.

• Berger (2016) Nanotechnology: the Future is Tiny.

• Berkessel & Gröger (2005) Asymmetric Organocatalysis: From Biomimetic Concepts to Applications in Asymmetric Synthesis.

• Bertini (2012) NMR of Biomolecules: Towards Mechanistic Systems Biology

• Billo (2011) Excel for Chemists: A Comprehensive Guide, 3rd ed. 

• Bittner et al. (2001) Organic Synthesis Workbook II.

• Blankenship (2014) Molecular mechanisms of photosynthesis, 2nd ed.

• Bockris & Reddy (2002) Modern electrochemistry, 2nd ed. Vol. 1, Ionics

• Bockris, Reddy & Gamboa-Aldeco (2002) Modern electrochemistry, 2nd ed. Vol. 2A, Fundamentals of Electrodics

• Bockris & Reddy (2000) Modern electrochemistry, 2nd ed. Vol. 2B, Electrodics in Chemistry, Engineering, Biology and Environmental Science

• Bockris & Khan (1979) Quantum Electrochemistry

• Brittain (2009) Polymorphism in pharmaceutical solids, 2nd ed.

• Bugg (2004) Introduction to Enzyme and Coenzyme Chemistry, 2nd ed.

• Bugg (2012) Introduction to Enzyme and Coenzyme Chemistry, 3rd ed.

• Brydson (2011) Aberration‐Corrected Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy.

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• Calladine (2004) Understanding DNA: The Molecule and How it Works, 3rd ed.

• Carey & Sundberg (2000) Advanced Organic Chemistry. Part A: Structure and Mechanisms, 4th ed.

• Carey & Sundberg (2000) Advanced Organic Chemistry. Part B: Reaction and Synthesis, 4th ed.

• Carey & Sundberg (2007) Advanced Organic Chemistry. Part A: Structure and Mechanisms, 5th ed.

• Carey & Sundberg (2007) Advanced Organic Chemistry. Part B: Reaction and Synthesis, 5th ed.

• Chorkendorff (2003) Concepts of Modern Catalysis and Kinetics.

• Civjan (2012) Chemical Biology: Approaches to Drug Discovery and Development to Targeting Disease. 

• Christmann & Bräse (2013) Asymmetric Synthesis II: More Methods and Applications.

• Clayden, Greeves & Warren (2012) Organic chemistry, 2nd ed. IF NOT AVAILABLE, USE KLEIN INSTEAD

• Codd & Seymour (2008) Magnetic Resonance Microscopy.

• Cohen, et al. (2007) GREEN BOOK. Quantities, Units, and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, IUPAC Green Book, 3rd ed.

• Colacot (2014) New Trends in Cross-Coupling

• Collings (2020) Introduction to Liquid Crystals, 2nd ed.

• Compton (2014) Understanding voltammetry, 3rd ed.

• Copeland (2005) Evaluation of Enzyme Inhibitors in Drug Discovery: A Guide for Medicinal Chemists and Pharmacologists.

• Copeland (2013) Evaluation of Enzyme Inhibitors in Drug Discovery: A Guide for Medicinal Chemists and Pharmacologists, 2nd ed.

• Cornell & Schwertmann (2003) The Iron Oxides: Structure, Properties, Reactions, Occurences and Uses, 2nd ed.

• Cornils & Hermann (2002) Applied Homogeneous Catalysis with Organometallic Compounds, Second Edition

• Cotton (1972) Inorganic Syntheses, Volume 13.

• Cotton (2006) Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry.

• Crabtree (2005) The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals, 4th ed.

• Crabtree (2014) The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals, 6th ed.

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• Dalko (2013) Comprehensive Enantioselective Organocatalysis: Catalysts, Reactions, and Applications.

• Davies (2004) Organotin Chemistry, 2nd ed. 

• Dewick (2002) Medicinal Natural Products - A Biosynthetic Approach 2nd. ed.

• Dewick (2009) Medicinal Natural Products: a Biosynthetic Approach, 3rd. ed.

• Drauz & Waldmann (2002) Enzyme Catalysis in Organic Synthesis: A Comprehensive Handbook, 2nd ed.

• Drauz, Gröger & May (2012) Enzyme Catalysis in Organic Synthesis 3rd ed.

• Dunitz (1995) X-Ray Analysis and the Structure of Organic Molecules, 2nd ed.

• Duer (2001) Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Principles and Applications.

• van Dyck, van Landuyt & van  Tendeloo (1996) Handbook of Microscopy, Vols. 1-3.

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• Ecker & Chiba (2010) Transporters as drug carriers: structure, function, substrates.

• Eicher (2003) The Chemistry of Heterocycles - Structure, Reactions, Syntheses, and Applications, 2nd ed.

• Eicher (2012) The Chemistry of Heterocycles - Structure, Reactions, Syntheses, and Applications, 3rd ed.

• Elaissari (2008) Colloidal Nanoparticles in Biotechnology.

• am Ende (2010) Chemical Engineering in the Pharmaceutical Industry: R&D to Manufacturing. 

• Ellis (1992)Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds v.47: Synthesis of Fused Heterocycles Part 2.

• Ernst, Hart & Sinaý (2000) Carbohydrates in Chemistry and Biology 4v. set 

• Ertl, Knözinger & Weitkamp (1997) Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis 5 vol. set.

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• Faraway (2016) Extending the Linear Model with R : Generalized Linear, Mixed Effects and Nonparametric Regression Models, 2nd ed.

• Faraway (2014) Linear models with R, 2nd ed.

• Field (2007) Organic Structures from Spectra, 4th ed.

• Finlayson-Pitts (2000) Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere: Theory, Experiments and Applications.

• Fleming (2010) Molecular Orbitals and Organic Chemical Reactions. Student edition.

• Fleming & Williams (2019) Spectroscopic methods in organic chemistry, 7th ed.

• Förster Resonance Energy Transfer: From Theory to Applications.

• Fouassier & Lalevée (2012) Photoinitiators for Polymer Synthesis.

• Friedbacher & Bubert (2011) Surface and Thin Film Analysis 2nd ed. A Compendium of Principles, Instrumentation and Applications

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• Gamburg & Zangari (2011) Theory and practice of metal electrodeposition

• García‐Martínez & Serrano‐Torregrosa (2015) Chemistry Education- Best Practices, Opportunities and Trends.

• Gasser (2014) Inorganic Chemical Biology: Principles, Techniques and Applications.

• Gasser & Richards (1995) An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics

• Gasteiger (2003) Handbook of Chemoinformatics: From Data to Knowledge in 4 Volumes.

• Gauglitz & Moore (2014) Handbook of Spectroscopy 2nd ed.

• Gauglitz & Vo‐Dinh (2003) Handbook of Spectroscopy 2nd ed.

• Giacovazzo (2011) Fundamentals of crystallography, 3rd ed.

• Gilman (2009) Chemistry and Physics of Mechanical Hardness.

• Gladysz, Curran & Horváth (2004) Handbook of Fluorous Chemistry.

• GREEN BOOK - see Cohen, et al.

• Greenwood (1997) Chemistry of the elements, 2nd ed.

• Griffiths & de Haseth (2006) Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry, 2nd ed.

• Grubbs (2003) Handbook of Metathesis: Catalyst Development.

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• Hagen (2005) Industrial Catalysis: A Practical Approach, 2nd ed.

• Hammond (2015) Basics of crystallography and diffraction. 4th ed.

• Hand (1997) Construction and assessment of classification rules.

• Hartmann, Bindereif, Schön & Westhof (2014) Handbook of RNA Biochemistry. 2nd rev. ed.

• Hastie (2009) Elements of Statistical Learning : Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, 2nd ed.

• van der Heide (2011) X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: An Introduction to Principles and Practices.

• Helgaker, Jørgensen & Olsen (2012) Molecular electronic-structure theory

• Henriksen (2019) Theories of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, 2nd ed.

• Hiemenz & Lodge (2020) Polymer chemistry, 3rd ed.

• Hollas (2003) Modern Spectroscopy, 4th ed.

• Holmberg (2003) Surfactants and Polymers in Aqueous Solution, 2nd ed.

• Houghton (2004). Global warming: the complete briefing. 3rd ed.

• Houghton (2009). Global warming: the complete briefing. 4th ed.

• Housecroft (2008) Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd. ed.

• Housecroft (2012) Inorganic chemistry, 4th ed..

• Housecroft (2018) Inorganic chemistry, 5th ed.

• Hughes (2011) Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins in Organic Chemistry: Volume 3: Building Blocks, Catalysis and Coupling Chemistry.

• Hughes (2011) Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins in Organic Chemistry: Volume 4: Protection Reactions, Medicinal Chemistry, Combinatorial Synthesis.

• Hutchings & Martin (2012) Inkjet Technology for Digital Fabrication.

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• Jahnke (2006) Fragment-based approaches in drug discovery.

• Jahnke & Erlanson (2016) Fragment-based Drug Discovery: Lessons and Outlook.

• Jeffreys (2004) Aspirin: the remarkable story of a wonder drug

• Jenkins (2008) Chemical Thermodynamics at a Glance.

• Jenkins (2018) Chirality at solid surfaces.

• Jenkins & Snyder (1996) Introduction to X-Ray Powder Diffractometry.

• Joule (2010) Heterocyclic chemistry, 5th ed.

• Joule (2013) Heterocyclic chemistry at a glance, 2nd ed.

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• Kaesz (1989) Inorganic Syntheses, Volume 26.

• Kaiho (2014) Iodine Chemistry and Applications.

• Kaplan (2006) Intermolecular Interactions - Physical Picture, Computational Methods and Model Potentials.

• Kärger, Ruthven & Theodorou (2012) Diffusion in Nanoporous Materials.

• Kaup, Bühl & Malkin (2004) Calculation of NMR and EPR Parameters: Theory and Applications.

• Kee, Coltrin & Glarborg (2003) Chemically Reacting Flow: Theory and Practice.

• Kelly & Knowles (2020) Crystallography and Crystal Defects, 3rd ed.

• Kirby & Hollfelder (2009) From Enzyme Models to Model Enzymes

• Kirschner (1985) Inorganic Syntheses, Volume 23.

• Klabunde (2009) Nanoscale Materials in Chemistry, 2nd. ed.

• Klein (2016) Organic chemistry, 3rd ed.

• Koch (2001) A Chemists Guide to Density Functional Theory, 2nd.ed.

• Krämer, Schirmer, Jeschke & Witschel (2011) Modern Crop Protection Compounds, 2nd ed.

• Kricheldorf, Nuyken, & Swift (2004) Handbook of Polymer Synthesis, 2nd ed.

• Kubat (2017) An Introduction to Machine Learning.

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• Lewis (2001) Handbook of Raman Spectroscopy: From the Research Laboratory to the Process Line.

• Lian & Roberts (2011) Protein NMR Spectroscopy: Practical Techniques and Applications.

• Long & Wong (2015) The Chemistry of Molecular Imaging.

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• Madea (2014) Handbook of Forensic Medicine.

• Mann (1971) Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Volume 1: Heterocyclic Derivatives of Phosphorous Arsenic, Antimony and Bismuth, 2nd ed.

• Marshall (2012) Clinical chemistry, 7th ed.

• Masliyah & Bhattacharjee (2005) Electrokinetic and Colloid Transport Phenomena.

• McMurry (2015) Organic chemistry, 9th ed.

• Memming (2015) Semiconductor Electrochemistry, 2nd ed.

• Merz (2010) Drug Design

• Meyer, Köhler & Homburg (2007) Explosives, 6th ed.

• Mikami (2005) Green reaction media in organic synthesis

• Mikami (2007) New frontiers in asymmetric catalysis

• Montalti, et al. (2006) Handbook of Photochemistry, 3rd ed.

• Muller (2007) Inorganic structural chemistry, 2nd ed.

• Murphy (2012) Machine learning: a probablistic perspective

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• Nassar, Hollenberg & Scatina (2008) Drug Metabolism Handbook: Concepts and Applications.

• Negishi (2002) Handbook of Organopalladium Chemistry for Organic Synthesis.

• Nelson & Cox (2021) Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, 8th ed.

• Newkome (1996) Dendritic Molecules - Concepts, Syntheses, Perspectives.

• Nishiwaki (2014) Methods and Applications of Cycloaddition Reactions in Organic Syntheses.

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• Ojima (2010) Catalytic asymmetric synthesis, 3rd ed.

• Odian (2004) Principles of Polymerization, 4th ed.

• Orazem & Tribollet (2008) Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy.

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• Patrick (2003) Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed. (BIOS instant notes)

• Pramanik, Ganguly & Gross (2002) Applied electrospray mass spectrometry

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• Qiu (2008) Developing Solid Oral Dosage Forms : Pharmaceutical Theory and Practice

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• Radovic (2012) Chemistry & Physics of Carbon

• Ramirez‐Alvarado, Kelly & Dobson (2010) Protein Misfolding Diseases: Current and Emerging Principles and Therapies.

• Rao & Sood (2012) Graphene: Synthesis, Properties, and Phenomena.

• Reichardt & Welton (2011) Solvents and solvent effects in organic chemistry, 4th ed. 

• Reiher & Wolf (2009) Relativistic Quantum Chemistry.

• Renaud & Sibi (2001) Radicals in Organic Synthesis.

• Richards & Hollerton (2010) Essential Practical NMR for Organic Chemistry.

• Riley (2002) Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: a Comprehensive Guide, 2nd ed.

• Riley (2006) Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: a Comprehensive Guide, 3rd ed.

• Ripley (1996) Pattern recognition and neural networks.

• Ritchie (2017) Atmospheric Chemistry: From The Surface To The Stratosphere

• Roat‐Malone (2007) Bioinorganic Chemistry: A Short Course, 2nd ed.

• Roesky (2012) Efficient Preparations of Fluorine Compounds.

• Rogers (2010) Concise Physical Chemistry.

• Rosen (2004) Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena, 3rd ed.

• Rudnick & Gaspari (2004). Elements of the Random Walk: An introduction for Advanced Students and Researchers. 

• Russell & Norvig (2004) Artifical intelligence: a modern approach, 4th ed.

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• Schalley (2012) Analytical Methods in Supramolecular Chemistry, 1&2, 2nd ed.

• Schäfer & Schmidt (2012) Methods in Physical Chemistry.

• Schmid (2004) Nanoparticles: From Theory to Application.

• Schreiber, Kapoor & Wess (2007) Chemical Biology: From Small Molecules to Systems Biology and Drug Design, Volume 1-3.

• Schüth, Sing & Weitkamp (2002) Handbook of Porous Solids.

• Sewald & Jakubke (2009) Peptides: Chemistry and Biology, 2nd ed.

• Shabarova & Bogdanov (1994) Advanced Organic Chemistry of Nucleic Acids. 

• Shaw (1992) Introduction to colloid and surface chemistry, 4th ed.

• Smart & Moore (2005) Solid State Chemistry, 3rd ed.

• Smart & Moore (2012) Solid State Chemistry, 4th ed.

• Smith (2007) March's Advanced Organic Chemistry, 6th ed.

• Smith (2013) March's Advanced Organic Chemistry, 7th ed.

• Sneader (2005) Drug Discovery: A History.

• Snyder, Kirkland & Dolan (2009) Introduction to Modern Liquid Chromatography, 3rd ed.

• Spence (2009) High-resolution electron microscopy, 3rd ed.

• Spence (2013) High-resolution electron microscopy, 4th ed.

• Stapf & Han (2005) NMR Imaging in Chemical Engineering.

• Steed (2007) Core Concepts in Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanochemistry: From Supramolecules to Nanotechnology.

• Steed (2009) Supramolecular Chemistry 2nd ed.

• Stephenson, Yoon & MacMillan (2018) Visible Light Photocatalysis in Organic Chemistry

• Stromgaard, Krogsgaard-Larsen & Madsen (2016) Textbook of Drug Design and Discovery, 5th ed.

• Szabo & Ostlund (1996) Modern Quantum Chemistry: Introduction to Advanced Electronic Structure Theory

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• Thurston & Jackson (2019) Cytotoxic payloads for antibody-drug conjugates

• Torres (2013) Stereoselective Organocatalysis: Bond Formation Methodologies and Activation Modes.

• Trabocchi (2013) Diversity-Oriented Synthesis: Basics and Applications in Organic Synthesis, Drug Discovery, and Chemical Biology.

• Trabocchi & Guarna (2014) Peptidomimetics in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry: The Art of Transforming Peptides in Drugs.

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• Valeur & Berberan‐Santos (2012) Molecular Fluorescence, 2nd ed. Principles and Applications.

• Venables (2000). Introduction to surface and thin film processes.

• Vincent (2001) Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory, 2nd ed. 

• Vincent (2012) Structural biomaterials, 3rd ed.

• Voet, Voet & Pratt (2016) Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level, 5th ed. 

• Vollhardt & Schore (2018) Organic chemistry: structure and function, 8th ed.

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• Waldmann & Janning (2014) Concepts and Case Studies in Chemical Biology.

• Wales (2003) Energy Landscapes

• Walsh (2017) Natural product biosynthesis: chemical logic and enzymatic machinery

• Wang & Anslyn  (2011) Chemosensors: Principles, Strategies, and Applications.

• Warren & Wyatt (2008) Organic Synthesis: the Disconnection Approach, 2nd ed.

• Warren & Wyatt (2007) Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control

• Warren & Wyatt (2009) Workbook for Organic Synthesis: the Disconnection Approach, 2nd ed.

• Weil & Bolton (2006) Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: Elementary Theory and Practical Applications, 2nd ed. 

• Wilson (1990) Molecular Vibrations: The Theory of Infrared and Raman Vibrational Spectra

• Wirth (2011) Organoselenium Chemistry: Synthesis and Reactions.

• Woodruff (1994) Modern techniques of surface science, 2nd ed.

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• Young (2001) Computational Chemistry: A Practical Guide for Applying Techniques to Real World Problems.

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• Zangwill (1988) Physics at surfaces

• Zhang & Cue (2012) Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry.

• Zollinger (1994) Diazo Chemistry I: Aromatic and Heteroaromatic Compounds.

• Zollinger (1995) Diazo Chemistry II - Organometallic Compounds.

RSC Tutorial Chemistry Texts series

• Anderson (2004) Organic Spectroscopic Analysis.

• Barrett (2002) Atomic Structure and Periodicity.

• Barrett (2003) Inorganic Chemistry in Aqueous Solution.

• Barrett (2001) Structure and Bonding.

• Cocket (2003) Maths for Chemists, vol. 2.

• Cooper (2004) Biophysical Chemistry.

• Dann (2000) Reactions and Characterization of Solids.

• Doggett (2003) Maths for Chemists, vol. 1.

• Doonan (2004) Nucleic Acids.

• Doonan (2002) Peptides and Proteins.

• Hanson (2001) Functional Group Chemistry.

• Hanson (2003) Natural Products.

• Hayward (2002) Quantum mechanics for chemists.

• Henderson (2000) Main Group Chemistry.

• Hepworth (2002) Aromatic Chemistry.

• Hill (2003) Organotransition Metal Chemistry.

• Hollas (2002) Basic Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy.

• Jones (2001) d- and f-Block Chemistry.

• Morris (2001) Stereochemistry.

• Sainsbury (2001) Heterocyclic Chemistry.

• Seddon (2002) Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.

Online reference works

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• Comprehensive coordination chemistry II

• CRC handbook of Chemistry and Physics

• Encyclopedia of biological chemistry (access via ScienceDirect Reference Works)

• Encyclopedia of cancer

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