ChemInform was an

indexing and abstracting service An abstracting service is a service that provides abstracts of publications, often on a subject or group of related subjects, usually on a subscription basis. An indexing service is a service that assigns descriptors and other kinds of access poi ...

and

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases spa ...

in chemistry. The service published abstracts related to organic,

organometallic Organometallic chemistry is the study of organometallic compounds, chemical compounds containing at least one chemical bond between a carbon atom of an organic molecule and a metal, including alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metals, and ...

inorganic In chemistry, an inorganic compound is typically a chemical compound that lacks carbon–hydrogen bonds, that is, a compound that is not an organic compound. The study of inorganic compounds is a subfield of chemistry known as ''inorganic chemis ...

and

physical chemistry Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical ...

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''ChemInform: Selected Abstracts in Chemistry''

The abstracts were published in ''ChemInform: Selected Abstracts in Chemistry'' from 1970 to 2016. It was originally published in two parts as ''Chemischer Informationsdienst: anorganische und physikalische Chemie'' and ''Chemischer Informationsdienst: organische Chemie'', which merged in 1972 into the single ''Chemischer Informationsdienst'', which superseded in part

Chemisches Zentralblatt ''Chemisches Zentralblatt'' is the first and oldest abstracts journal published in the field of chemistry. It covers the chemical literature from 1830 to 1969 and describes therefore the "birth" of chemistry as science, in contrast to alchemy. The ...

. The publication acquired its final title in 1987.

ChemInform RX

A reaction database ChemInform RX (CIRX) enabled users to search for specific reactions published in ChemInform journal.

SPORE

SPORE (Solid Phase Organic Reactions) was a database for synthetic pathways via polymer-bound organic compounds, with extensive data on each individual reaction.

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