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