Gmelin database

Of course, there are many other useful literature indexes and databases that can be searched, including the Science Citation Index, the Beilstein and Gmelin databases, and others. However, searching for a few key species in the manner described above will provide a good entrance into... 

If not, the substance-identifying data (see preceding paragraph) will be taken from the. source and used for the registration of these non-structurable compounds. This information is then stored as Inorganic Structure Tables and used for the registration of the substance in the Gmelin database. 

The Structure Distribution File format is another means for representing inorganic compounds on a computer system. With the Gmelin Database it is used as the intrinsic storage format for substance and structure information. The SDF format has been developed to store the same amount of information as is contained in a ROSDAL string, but there is no one-to-one correspondence between different constructs of the ROSDAL specification and of the SDF format. 

Beilstein and Gmelin Databases, covering chemical properties of organic and inorganic compounds ... 

The following strategies can be applied for retrieving a compound in the Gmelin database ... 

One speciality of the Gmelin database is its ligand search system for coordination compounds. It is a sophisticated easy, and low-cost substructure search. Ligand atoms are arranged in classes (Table 21). In addition, special ligands are included ... 

Although the Gmelin database is not specifically a reaction database, it contains more than 300,900 reactions. Together with Beilstein, it provides the biggest time coverage. The following list shows subfields for reactions. 

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