SPECTRA DATABASES

The links below will take you to sites where you can search for the structures and spectra of organic molecules. Please note that these sites contain information on how to acknowledge or cite their data when it is used in a presentation, publication, or report.

If you use a spectrum from one of these databases to compare with your experimental spectrum, do not choose one that was determined in the gas phase.



NIST WebBook National Institute of Standards and Technology
This site contains IR (gas phase mostly), Mass Spectra and a few UV-visible spectra. Structures can be saved as small gif images. The database is searchable by name, full or partial molecular formula, and molecular weight.
Spectral Data Base System (SDBS) Sponsored by the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Here you can find IR, MS, C13- and H1-NMR. It is searchable by name, full or partial molecular formula, and molecular weight. Structures can be saved as gif files.