Beilstein database

The Beilstein database is a database of organic chemistry, one of the largest factual databases in the world, a standard work in the chemical literature. It is operated by the publisher Elsevier database today.

The manual belonged to a German standard reference book of organic chemistry and should significantly add to their content, which was founded in 1830 Chemistry Central Journal. It was the German counterpart to the Anglo-Saxon Chemical Abstracts system. Since 1998, the editors of the Beilstein was dissolved.

Manual

" The Beilstein " as the original manual and the current database will also be called, was published by Friedrich Konrad Beilstein 1880 to 1882 in a first edition as " Handbook of Organic Chemistry ", with 15,000 connections and 2,200 pages. From 1885 to 1889, the second edition (3 volumes, 4080 pages), appeared from 1892 to 1899, the third ( 4 volumes, 6844 pages).

As the Beilstein tremendous job could not afford alone, 1896, the continuation of the manual was given into the custody of the German Chemical Society, the 1918, the fourth edition published. Later, the processing of the manual by the Beilstein Institute for Literature of Organic Chemistry, 1951, the legal form of a charitable foundation received ( Max -Planck-Society founder ) was performed. This fourth edition has been referred to as the main work, their numbering is relative to all subsequent supplementary series. The content of the books was accessed via the Beilstein system that allows on structural features uniquely associated with individual volumes.

Generally can be inferred from the " Beilstein " following literature substantiated facts to organic compounds:

• Constitution, configuration, conformation
• Occurrence and extraction from natural products
• Manufacture, methods of formation and purification
• Structure and energy of the molecule sizes
• Physical properties
• Chemical behavior ( reactions)
• Characterization and Analysis
• Derivatives

Until the cessation of production of Beilstein in book form 1998 503 volumes have been published with 440 814 pages.

Database

Since 1994, the Beilstein exists as a database that when it appears approximately 6 million structures of chemical compounds contained. The database contains information from the scientific literature from 1771 to the present, to chemical, physical, pharmacological and physiological properties of organic compounds as numeric values ​​, keywords or text entries.

To search the database software, the Crossfire has been sold. It included a graphical user interface have been drawn in the chemical structures, according to which the database in association with material properties, among others could be searched. Crossfire was discontinued in late 2010 and replaced by Reaxys program, with the next to the Beilstein Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry also and Patent Chemistry are jointly researched.

The end of 2008 over 10 million structures and 10 million reactions with 37 million facts records are listed. Each fact record is provided with a reference to the original literature. About 2.0 million original articles were evaluated.

Historical works

The older works are mostly available for free online.

• 2nd edition

• 3rd edition

• 4th edition - Main (H )

• 4th edition - first supplementary series (E I)

• 4th edition - second supplementary series ( E II )