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