Zentralblatt

Publications of this kind are described as non-original. They are abstracting services and handbooks that catch the primary literature, condense the important contents, and make this information available (searchable). Secondary literature is not evaluated and is provided in both printable and electronic forms. Examples are Gmelin, Beilstein, Citations Chemisches Zentralblatt, Chemical Abstracts, or Science Citation Index handbooks include Houben-Weyl, and Landolt Bomstein. 

Chemical Abstracts Service. The Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has produced Chemical Abstracts (CA) since 1907. Since the demise of Chemisches Zentralblatt and British Chemical Abstracts CA has been the preeminent medium for documenting new pubhcations in the field of chemistry and chemical engineering. CA documents chemical pubHcations of all types. It is not a patent database per se, but its patent component is larger than most databases devoted entirely to patents. Thus, for example, the number of patent references in CA for the years 1991—1993 ranged from 95,500—99,400 per year. 

Zentralblatt, n. central journal or paper (a name used by periodicals). 

Although CA and Referativnyi Zhurnal, Khimya are currently the only chemical abstracting publications that cover the entire field of chemistry, there were a number of earlier abstracting publications now defiinct. The most important are Chemisches Zentralblatt and British Abstracts. These publications are still valuable because they began before CA and can therefore supply abstracts for papers that appeared before 1907. Furthermore, even for papers published after 1907, Zentralblatt and British Abstracts are often more detailed. Zentralblatt was published, under various names, from 1830 to 1969. British Abstracts was a separate publication from 1926 to 1953, but earher abstracts from this source are available in the Journal of the Chemical Society from 1871 to 1925. 

An obituary of Zentralblatt by Weiske, which gives its history and statistical data about its abstracts and indexes, was published in the April 1973 issue of Chem. Ber. (pp. I-XVI). 

Ewers U, Brockhaus A, Dolgner R, et al. 1990. Levels of lead and cadmium in blood of 55-66 year old women living in different areas of Northrhine-Westphalia-Chronological trend 1982-1988. Zentralblatt fur Hygiene und Umveltmedizin 189 405-418. 

Haas T, Wieck AG, Schaller KH, et al. 1972. [The usual lead load in new-born infants and their mothers ] Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie [B] 155 341-349. [German)... 

H. Wollmann, M. Patrunky and M. Zimmermann, Zentralblatt fuer Pharmazie, Pharmakotherapie und Laboratoriumsdiagnostik, 1983,122, 571-579. 

The indexing of organic compounds described since 1922 has been taken over by the Chemisches Zentralblatt, which follows the system hitherto discussed. The collective indexes of this journal for 1922 to 1924,1925 to 1929, and 1930 to 1934 continue the classifying work of M. M. Richter. In these indexes the references are to the Zentralblatt itself. Each year of the Zentralblatt, from 1925 onwards, contains a formula index covering the annual increment of literature abstracted in this comprehensively planned journal. These formula indexes are amalgamated every few years into a collective index and individually they constitute the reference works for the period which has elapsed since the appearance of the last collective index. Consequently, when it is desired to have complete information from the whole literature about an organic substance, the following works must be consulted at the present day ... 

This injunction holds also for those who wish to make the best use of the references to the Chemisches Zentralblatt. From the abstracts in the latter the student must likewise turn to the original papers, and look up the journal mentioned at the end of the abstract. 

Bosch, Karl. Chemisches Zentralblatt 1913, 2, 195 German Patents 249,447, July 23, 1912 and 254,437, December 3, 1912 Chemical Age 1921, 29451-45 The Industrial Chemist 1934, 10, 90-94 "Nobel Lectures, Chemistry, 1922-1941" Elsevier Publish ing Company New York, 1966 pp 195-235 Mittasch, Alwin. 

Murty KV, Raju DSS, Sharma CBSR. 1983. Cytogenetic hazards from agricultural chemicals 7. Herbicides, fungicides and insecticides screened for effects on chiasmata in Hordeum vulgare. Biologisches Zentralblatt (Leipzig) 102 571-576. 

Bleuler, Eugen. Vortrag iiber Ambivalenz. Zentralblatt fur Psychoanalyse i (1910). 

Zimmermann, M. (1932). Ueber die extra-floralen Nectarien der Angiospermen. Botanisches Zentralblatt 49 99-196. 

Buselmaier, W., Rohrbom, G. Propping, P. (1972) Mutagenicity investigations with pesticides in the host-mediated assay and with the dominant lethal test in the mouse. Biol. Zentralblatt, 91, 311-325 (in German)... 

Chemiker Zeitung (Kothen,Anhalt). In Jan 1951 the name was changed to "Chemiker Zeitung ehemalsKothen (Stuttgart) and in Jan 1954 to Chemiker Zeitung mit Chemische Apparatur und Chemie-Bbrse (Heidelberg) Chemisches Zentralblatt(Berlin)... 

Gray, P. H. H., and H. G. Thornton, Soil bacteria that decompose certain aromatic compounds , Zentralblatt Bakteriologie Parasitenkunde Infektionskrankheiten, 3, 74-96 (1928). 

Additional abstract sources are Chemisches Zentralblatt, Analytical Abstracts, and the Bibliography Section of the Journal of Chromatography. As pointed out previously, any research journal may have an article in which GC was used. In this case, the researcher should go to the journal for the specific area and/or topic, for example. Analytical Biochemistry, Food Technology, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of the American Oil Chemist s Society, Clinical Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Physics. 

The Lexicon of Stelzner should be consulted for references from 1910— 1921, while the formula register of Chemisches Zentralblatt, based on the same plan as Richter and Stelzner, continues the index. Volumes 1922— 1930 of this index have appeared and Volume 1930—-1934 is appearing in parts. A general register is also supplied by the Chemisches Zentralblatt from 1925 onwards. 

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Nussbaumer T (2005) Dieselruss und Holzfeinstaub grundverschieden. Holz-Zentralblatt 131 (70) 932-933... 

Neumann, D., Nover, L., Parthier, B., Rieger, R., Scharf, K.-D., Woll-giehn, R. zur Nieden, U. (1989). Heat shock and other stress response systems of plants. Biologisches Zentralblatt 108, 1-156. 

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