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