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