The Handbuch commenced publication in 1881, and the first edition covered about 15,000 compounds. The CrossFire database now covers over 7 million structures and 10 million reaction records. The Gmelin Database is also based on a printed work, the Gmelin Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie , which commenced publication in 1819. Gmelin is the most comprehensive collection of factual data on inorganic, organometallic and coordination compounds, alloys, glasses, ceramics and minerals. The CrossFire Abstracts Database CrossFire Abstracts provides full access to titles and abstracts from the organic chemical literature from 1980 to the present.
Users can search directly for words contained in the title or abstract of an excerpted document.
The Beilstein Commander The Beilstein and Gmelin databases are searched using the Beilstein Commander which runs on your local PC or Macintosh. It is a graphical windows-based interface that allows searching by chemical structure diagrams as well as by the more usual text fields. Results are displayed in diagrams and text formats, with hyperlinks between substances, reactions and citations.