Chemical literature, German Searching

Since the appearance of the Chemisches Journal in 1778, the German chemical literature has represented a sizable segment of the literature of chemistry as a whole. Chemisches Zentralblatt, the earliest of the abstract lournals, was widened in scope in 1949 to cover the chemical literature of the world. Aside from language difficulties, a search of German chemical literature involves no essential change in methods employed for search of any other area of chemical literature. 

A discussion of the Field Information Agency, Technical (FIAT) Review of German Science is appropriately a part of a Symposium on Searching of Chemical Literature, for the reviews cover a period of years, 1939-46, during which the normal interchange of scientific information was seriously disrupted. In addition, it is only recently that practically the whole series of volumes has been completed in printed form and has become available to scientific libraries. 

Amines can be produced by many different chemical syntheses, so numerous that I will list only a few references. A thorough search of German, Russian, and American scientific literature is waiting should the reader wish to look into it further. 

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