Free Chemistry Books

This is the updated list of chemistry books available for free download or online reading. These books, papers and lecture notes cover all the areas of analytical chemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry, crystallography, physical chemistry, electronic structure theory, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and many others. The books are made available free of charge to the reader by their authors or publishers. Here is a categorized directory of chemistry books. This page is updated daily.

1. Fundamentals of Reaction Engineering - Examples
   Rafael Kandiyoti | BookBoon, Published in 2009, 41 pages
2. The Renaissance of Science: The Story of the Atom and Chemistry
   Albert Martini | Project Gutenberg, Published in 2014, 812 pages
3. Pressure Driven Membrane Processes
   Soren Prip Beier | BookBoon, Published in 2007, 22 pages
4. Chemical Principles
   R.E. Dickerson, H.B. Gray, G.P. Haight | Benjamin/Cummings, Published in 1979, 1037 pages
5. Thermodynamics and Chemistry
   Howard DeVoe | , Published in 2011, 531 pages
6. Hydrocarbons
   J. C. Jones | BookBoon, Published in 2010, 111 pages
7. Introduction to Electronic Structure Methods
   Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli | EPFL, Published in 2011, 118 pages
8. Organic Chemistry
   Amgad M. Rabie, at al. | Wikibooks, Published in 2010
9. Introductory Maths for Chemists
   J. E. Parker | Bookboon, Published in 2013, 136 pages
10. Introductory Chemistry
    David W. Ball | Flat World Knowledge, Published in 2011, 855 pages
11. Introductory Physical Chemistry
    David Ronis | McGill University, Published in 2002, 131 pages
12. Membrane Distillation
    Enrico Drioli (ed.) | MDPI AG, Published in 2017, 134 pages
13. X-ray Scattering
    Alicia Esther Ares (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2017, 226 pages
14. Lecture Series in Electronic Structure Theory
    David Sherrill, et al. | Georgia Tech, Published in 2002
15. The Chemistry of Health
    Alison Davis | National Institutes of Health, Published in 2009, 20 pages
16. Biochemistry Online
    Henry Jakubowski | , Published in 2009
17. Computational Electronic Structure Theory
    Patrick Rinke | Fritz Haber Institute, Published in 2011, 66 pages
18. Essentials of Chemistry
    Soren Prip Beier, Peter Dybdahl Hede | BookBoon, Published in 2010, 174 pages
19. Chromatography: The Most Versatile Method of Chemical Analysis
    Leonardo de Azevedo Calderon (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2012, 428 pages
20. Chemistry Explained: Foundations and Applications
    | Advameg, Inc., Published in 2009
21. Chemical Ecology: The Chemistry of Biotic Interaction
    Thomas Eisner, Jerrold Meinwald | National Academies Press, Published in 1995, 241 pages
22. Column Chromatography
    Dean F. Martin, Barbara B. Martin (eds) | InTech, Published in 2013, 209 pages
23. Single-Molecule Optics
    Michel Orrit | Universiteit Leiden, Published in 2004, 32 pages
24. Miniaturization in Sample Preparation
    Francisco Pena-Pereira (ed.) | De Gruyter Open, Published in 2014, 463 pages
25. Basic Physical Chemistry
    Wolfgang Schärtl | Bookboon, Published in 2014, 166 pages
26. Coal Pyrolysis
    George R. Gavalas | Elsevier, Published in 1982, 177 pages
27. Fundamentals of Chemistry
    Romain Elsair | BookBoon, Published in 2012, 133 pages
28. A Concise History of Chemistry
    Thomas Percy Hilditch | D. Van Nostrand, Published in 1911, 292 pages
29. Medical Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Amanullah Mohammed | New Central Book Agency, Published in 2011, 408 pages
30. A Guide to Elementary Chemistry for Beginners
    Le Roy C. Cooley | Ivison, Blakeman, and Company, Published in 1886, 322 pages
31. Chem1 Virtual Textbook
    Stephen Lower | , Published in 2008
32. General Chemistry: Principles, Patterns, and Applications
    Bruce Averill, Patricia Eldredge | Saylor Foundation, Published in 2011, 2365 pages
33. Electronic Structure Theory
    Patrick Rinke | Fritz Haber Institute, Published in 2014, 63 pages
34. Physical Chemistry in Brief
    J.P. Novak, S. Labik, I. Malijevska | Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Published in 2005, 466 pages
35. Introduction to General Chemistry
    H.N. McCoy, E.M. Terry | McGraw-Hill, Published in 1920, 672 pages
36. Elements of X-Ray Diffraction
    B.D. Cullity | Addison-Wesley, Published in 1956, 531 pages
37. Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry, 2ed
    John D. Roberts, Marjorie C. Caserio | Addison-Wesley, Published in 1977, 1618 pages
38. Modern Methods and Algorithms of Quantum Chemistry
    Johannes Grotendorst | NIC, Published in 2000, 648 pages
39. Carbohydrates: Comprehensive Studies on Glycobiology and Glycotechnology
    Chuan-Fa Chang (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2012, 558 pages
40. A Brief Review of Elementary Quantum Chemistry
    C. David Sherrill | Georgia Institute of Technology, Published in 2001
41. Electrons and Chemical Bonding
    Harry B. Gray | W. A. Benjamin, Inc., Published in 1965, 232 pages
42. Analytical Chemistry
    Ira S. Krull (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2012, 146 pages
43. Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry
    William Reusch | Michigan State University, Published in 1999
44. Flow and Heat or Mass Transfer in the Chemical Process Industry
    Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou, Quoc T. Nguyen | MDPI AG, Published in 2018, 216 pages
45. Applied Electrochemistry
    Maurice de Kay Thompson | The MacMillan Company, Published in 1911, 366 pages
46. Descriptive Chemistry
    Lyman Churchill Newell | D.C. Heath & Co, Published in 1903, 590 pages
47. Chemical Thermodynamics
    Leo Lue | BookBoon, Published in 2009, 90 pages
48. Nanoparticles for Catalysis
    Hermenegildo Garcia, Sergio Navalon | MDPI AG, Published in 2017, 166 pages
49. Discovery of the Elements
    Mary Elvira Weeks | Journal Of Chemical Education, Published in 1956, 928 pages
50. Chemical Crystallography: An Introduction To Optical And X-Ray Methods
    C. W. Bunn | Oxford At The Clarendon Press, Published in 1946, 471 pages
51. Numerical Methods and Modeling for Chemical Engineers
    Mark E. Davis | John Wiley & Sons, Published in 1984, 267 pages
52. Current Trends in X-Ray Crystallography
    Annamalai Chandrasekaran | InTech, Published in 2011, 436 pages
53. Fluid Bed Particle Processing
    Peter Dybdahl Hede | BookBoon, Published in 2006, 80 pages
54. Atomic Spectra Vol II
    A. C. Candler | , Published in 1937, 313 pages
55. The Complex World of Polysaccharides
    Desiree Nedra Karunaratne (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2012, 634 pages
56. Recent Advances in Crystallography
    Jason B. Benedict | InTech, Published in 2012, 312 pages
57. Introduction to Chemistry
    Tracy Poulsen | Open Education Group, Published in 2010, 250 pages
58. Enzyme Technology
    Martin F. Chaplin, Christopher Bucke | Cambridge University Press, Published in 1990, 280 pages
59. Frontiers in Chemistry
    B Viswanathan | National Centre for Catalysis Research, Published in 2007, 231 pages
60. Photosynthesis
    Zvy Dubinsky | InTech, Published in 2013, 371 pages
61. Concept Development Studies in Chemistry
    John S. Hutchinson | LibreTexts, Published in 2010, 206 pages
62. Bioethanol: Science and technology of fuel alcohol
    Graeme M. Walker | BookBoon, Published in 2010, 114 pages
63. Introduction to Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems
    Mike Howard, Darcy Howard | Rockhounding Arkansas, Published in 1998, 127 pages
64. Geometry and Topology in Electronic Structure Theory
    Raffaele Resta | University of Trieste, Published in 2012, 83 pages
65. RNA Interference
    Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2016, 456 pages
66. Introduction to Chemical Engineering Processes
    | Wikibooks, Published in 2012, 136 pages
67. The Theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution: Three Essays
    Niels Bohr | Cambridge University Press, Published in 1922, 152 pages
68. Thermodynamic Extension of Density-functional Theory
    Robert Balawender, Andrzej Holas | arXiv, Published in 2012, 144 pages
69. Infrared Spectroscopy: Principles, Advances, and Applications
    Marwa El-Azazy | InTech, Published in 2019, 235 pages
70. Photosynthesis
    E. Rabinowitch, Govindjee | Wiley, Published in 1970
71. Practical Chemistry for Engineering Students
    Arthur James Hale | Longmans, Green, and Co., Published in 1912, 220 pages
72. Advanced Organic Chemistry
    George Willard Wheland | Wiley, Published in 1960, 799 pages
73. Separation Processes
    C. Judson King | Center for Studies in Higher Education, Published in 1980, 888 pages
74. General Chemistry
    | Wikibooks, Published in 2010
75. Biomedical Chemistry: Current Trends and Developments
    Nuno Vale | De Gruyter Open Ltd, Published in 2016, 350 pages
76. Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
    | LibreTexts, Published in 2016, 321 pages
77. Alcoholic Fermentation
    Arthur Harden | Longmans, Green & Co., Published in 1914, 176 pages
78. Hydrogenation
    Iyad Karame | InTech, Published in 2012, 326 pages
79. Biochemistry Laboratory Manual For Undergraduates
    Timea Gerczei, Scott Pattison | Walter De Gruyter Inc, Published in 2014, 174 pages
80. Atomic Spectroscopy
    W.C. Martin, W.L. Wiese | National Institute of Standards and Technology, Published in 2003, 31 pages
81. Fundamentals of Reaction Engineering
    Rafael Kandiyoti | BookBoon, Published in 2009, 112 pages
82. Hydrides: Fundamentals and Applications
    Craig Jensen, Etsuo Akiba, Hai-Wen Li (eds.) | MDPI AG, Published in 2017, 270 pages
83. Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
    Michalis Konsolakis (ed.) | MDPI AG, Published in 2016, 302 pages
84. Introduction to Clinical Biochemistry: Interpreting Blood Results
    Graham Basten | BookBoon, Published in 2011, 54 pages
85. GRE Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology Test Practice Book
    | Educational Testing Service, Published in 2008, 66 pages
86. Structural Biochemistry
    | Wikibooks, Published in 2012
87. CK-12 Chemistry
    S. Bewick, J. Edge, T. Forsythe, R. Parsons | CK-12 Foundation, Published in 2009, 966 pages
88. Advanced Maths for Chemists
    J. E. Parker | Bookboon, Published in 2013, 144 pages
89. Crystal Structure and Chemistry of Topological Insulators
    R.J. Cava, Huiwen Ji, M.K. Fuccillo, Q.D. Gibson, Y.S. Hor | arXiv, Published in 2013, 47 pages
90. Molecular Conformations
    Christopher Wood | BookBoon, Published in 2010, 36 pages
91. Quantum Mechanics: Lecture Notes on Quantum Chemistry
    Eric R. Bittner | University of Houston, Published in 2003, 259 pages
92. Modelling Batch Systems Using Population Balances
    Peter Dybdahl Hede | BookBoon, Published in 2006, 58 pages
93. Ion Exchange: Studies and Applications
    Ayben Kilislioglu (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2015, 204 pages
94. Nucleoside Modifications
    Mahesh K. Lakshman, Fumi Nagatsug | MDPI AG, Published in 2017, 224 pages
95. Molecular Simulation
    | Wikibooks, Published in 2016, 169 pages
96. Organic Chemistry
    W.H. Perkin, F.S. Kipping | Chambers, Published in 1904, 664 pages
97. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
    William Edwards Henderson | ManyBooks, Published in 1905, 390 pages
98. Elementary Applied Chemistry
    Lewis Benajah Allyn | Ginn and Company, Published in 1912, 152 pages
99. Organic Chemistry: methane to macromolecules
    J.D. Roberts, R. Stewart, M.C. Caserio | W. A. Benjamin, Inc., Published in 1971, 864 pages
100. Practical Organic Chemistry
     Julius Berend Cohen | Macmillan, Published in 1920, 384 pages
101. GRE Chemistry Test Practice Book
     | Educational Testing Service, Published in 2001, 53 pages
102. College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry
     Kenneth R. Koehler | Raymond Walters College, Published in 2003, 352 pages
103. Introductory Chemistry Online
     Paul R. Young | Wikibooks, Published in 2011, 444 pages
104. Textbook of Physical Chemistry
     Azariah Thomas Lincoln | D. C. Heath & Co., Published in 1918, 572 pages
105. Differential Equations In Applied Chemistry
     F.L. Hitchcock, C.S. Robinson | John Wiley And Sons, Published in 1923, 129 pages
106. Inorganic Chemistry
     Taro Saito | Kanagawa University, Published in 2004, 194 pages
107. Membrane Filtration Processes
     Michel Jaffrin | Bookboon, Published in 2015, 72 pages
108. Molecular Electronic Structures: an introduction
     Carl J. Ballhausen, Harry B. Gray | Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co., Published in 1980, 139 pages
109. Advanced Granulation Theory at Particle Level
     Peter Dybdahl Hede | BookBoon, Published in 2006, 62 pages
110. Innovative Inorganic Synthesis
     Duncan H. Gregory | MDPI AG, Published in 2015, 202 pages
111. Fundamentals of Thermodynamics
     J. Karl Johnson | University of Pittsburgh, Published in 2009
112. Polymer Science and Engineering
     | National Academies, Published in 1994, 192 pages
113. The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry
     David W. Ball, John W. Hill, Rhonda J. Scott | Flat World Knowledge, Published in 2011, 692 pages
114. Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry: Key ideas and their experimental basis
     Peter G. Nelson | BookBoon, Published in 2011, 177 pages
115. Analysis of Hydrogen Bonds in Crystals
     Slawomir J. Grabowski (ed.) | MDPI AG, Published in 2016, 324 pages
116. Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis
     Tim Soderberg | University of Minnesota, Published in 2017, 357 pages
117. Kinetics for Bioscientist
     Peter Klappa | BookBoon, Published in 2009, 221 pages
118. Many-body Perturbation Theory of Molecules
     S. Wilson | , Published in 2006, 48 pages
119. Nature of the Chemical Bond
     William A. Goddard III | California Institute of Technology, Published in 1986, 300 pages
120. Mass Transfer in Chemical Engineering Processes
     Jozef Markoš | InTech, Published in 2011, 306 pages
121. Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer
     Leo Lue | Bookboon, Published in 2014, 106 pages
122. Biotechnology of Biopolymers
     Magdy Elnashar | InTech, Published in 2011, 364 pages
123. The Chemistry of Microbiomes
     | National Academies Press, Published in 2017, 132 pages
124. Electrically Driven Membrane Processes
     Soren Prip Beier | BookBoon, Published in 2006, 52 pages
125. The Structures of Life
     | National Institutes of Health, Published in 2007, 66 pages
126. The Photosynthesis of Carbon Compounds
     Melvin Calvin, James Alan Bassham | W.A. Benjamin, Published in 1962, 156 pages
127. Introductory Chemistry
     Edward W. Pitzer | Bookboon, Published in 2014, 266 pages
128. An Introduction To Electrochemistry
     Samuel Glasstone | Affiliated East West Press, Published in 1942, 577 pages
129. Chemical Laboratory Safety and Security
     | National Academies Press, Published in 2016, 117 pages
130. Quantum Chemistry
     S. M. Blinder, Elvera Baron | University of Michigan, Published in 2002
131. Advanced Topics of Theoretical Physics I: The electronic structure of matter
     Peter E. Blöchl | TU Clausthal, Published in 2013, 302 pages
132. Chemical Biology
     Deniz Ekinci | InTech, Published in 2012, 444 pages
133. Manual of the Chemical Analysis of Rocks
     Henry Stephens Washington | Wiley, Published in 1904, 226 pages
134. Atoms, Molecules and Matter: The Stuff of Chemistry
     Roy McWeeny | Learning Development Institute, Published in 2011, 92 pages
135. General Chemistry
     Hamilton Perkins Cady | Forgotten Books, Published in 1916, 554 pages
136. Intermediate Maths for Chemists
     J. E. Parker | Bookboon, Published in 2013, 106 pages
137. Analytical Chemistry 2.1
     David Harvey | DePauw University, Published in 2016, 1122 pages
138. Visualizing Chemistry: The Progress and Promise of Advanced Chemical Imaging
     | National Academies Press, Published in 2006, 223 pages
139. Electrochemistry
     Mohammed A. A. Khalid (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2013, 198 pages
140. Quantum Mechanics of the Chemical Bond
     Peter E. Blöchl | TU Clausthal, Published in 2014, 242 pages
141. Effective Chemistry Communication in Informal Environments
     | National Academies Press, Published in 2016, 169 pages
142. Field Effect Electroosmosis
     Kiumars Ghowsi (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2015, 108 pages
143. Fundamentals of Air Pollution Engineering
     Richard C. Flagan, John H. Seinfeld | Prentice Hall, Published in 1988, 554 pages
144. Bioinorganic Chemistry
     Bertini, Gray, Lippard, Valentine | University Science Books, Published in 1994, 628 pages
145. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry
     Linus Pauling, E. Bright Wilson | McGraw-Hill Education, Published in 1935, 568 pages
146. Chemical Engineering Vocabulary
     Maximilian Lackner | Bookboon, Published in 2014, 309 pages
147. Multiscale Simulation Methods in Molecular Sciences
     J. Grotendorst, N. Attig, S. Bluegel, D. Marx | Julich Supercomputing Centre, Published in 2009, 592 pages
148. Analytical Chemistry
     F. P. Treadwell | John Wiley & Sons, Published in 1916
149. Volumetric Chemical Analysis
     P.M. Shiundu | African Virtual University, Published in 2018, 149 pages
150. Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering
     Mark E. E. Davis, Robert J. J. Davis | McGraw-Hill, Published in 2003, 384 pages
151. Essentials of Glycobiology
     Ajit Varki, et al. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Published in 2008, 784 pages
152. Practical Organic and Biochemistry
     R. Plimmer | Longmans, Published in 1918, 664 pages
153. Equilibrium in Analytical Chemistry Using Maple
     R.V. Whiteley | Bookboon, Published in 2013, 448 pages
154. Methods of Electronic Structure Theory
     Raffaele Resta | , Published in 1996, 88 pages
155. Molecular Orbital Theory
     Carl Ballhausen, Harry Gray | W. A. Benjamin, Inc., Published in 1965, 285 pages
156. Quantitative Chemical Analysis
     T. E. Thorpe | J. Wiley & Sons, Published in 1891, 420 pages
157. Micro/Nano Devices for Chemical Analysis
     Manabu Tokeshi, Kiichi Sato (eds.) | MDPI AG, Published in 2017, 230 pages
158. Chemical Dynamics
     J.B. Dence, H.B. Gray, G.S. Hammond | W. A. Benjamin, Inc., Published in 1968, 193 pages
159. Elements and Atoms: Case Studies in the Development of Chemistry
     Carmen Giunta | Le Moyne College, Published in 2014, 364 pages
160. Lectures on Random Polymers
     F. Caravenna, F. den Hollander, N. Petrelis | arXiv, Published in 2011, 74 pages
161. Chemical Information Sources
     Gary Wiggins | Wikibooks, Published in 2011
162. Principles of Biochemistry
     | Wikibooks, Published in 2011
163. Glossary of Combustion
     Maximilian Lackner | Bookboon, Published in 2014, 288 pages
164. Enzyme Inhibitors and Activators
     Murat Senturk (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2017, 266 pages
165. Worked Examples in the Geometry of Crystals
     H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia | Institute of Metals, Published in 2006, 113 pages
166. Micro- and Nano-Transport of Biomolecules
     David Bakewell | BookBoon, Published in 2009, 96 pages
167. Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry
     | Wikibooks, Published in 2014
168. Lecture Notes in Computational Chemistry: Electronic Structure Theory
     Jurg Hutter | University of Zurich, Published in 2005, 152 pages
169. Practical Chemistry
     Lyman Churchill Newell | D. C. Heath & Co., Published in 1922, 564 pages
170. Advanced Aspects of Spectroscopy
     Muhammad Akhyar Farrukh (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2012, 301 pages
171. The Basics of NMR
     Joseph P. Hornak | Rochester Institute of Technology, Published in 1999
172. Physical Chemistry
     Walter John Moore | , , 633 pages
173. Process Control Fundamentals
     | PAControl.com, Published in 2006, 73 pages
174. Physical Chemistry for Beginners
     Charles Marius Deventer | John Wiley & Sons, Published in 1903, 200 pages
175. Hydrodynamic Modelling and Granular Dynamics
     Peter Dybdahl Hede | BookBoon, Published in 2006, 42 pages
176. Methods in Industrial Biotechnology for Chemical Engineers
     W. B. V. Kandasamy, F. Smarandache | InfoLearnQuest, Published in 2008, 126 pages
177. Advancing Desalination
     Robert Y. Ning | InTech, Published in 2012, 216 pages
178. Advanced Chemical Kinetics
     Muhammad Akhyar Farrukh (ed.) | InTech, Published in 2018, 224 pages