Chemical structure, physical and chemical properties, brief bibliography for basic fundamental organic compounds of simple structure, important natural products, compounds of widespread industrial or commercial value, compounds frequently used in the laboratory as solvents, reagents, or starting materials, compounds of interest for chemical, structural, or biological properties. Includes CAS registry numbers.

Chemical structure, formula, molecular weight, melting point/freezing point, boiling point, water solubility, octanol-water partition coefficient, vapor pressure, acid dissociation constant, Henry's Law constant, and atmospheric hydroxyl radical reaction rate constant for 13,000 organic chemicals of environmental, pharmaceutical or commercial interest.

This handbook includes information on fundamentals, resources, acronyms and terms, stereochemistry, graphical representations, identifiers, molecular formulae, lab safety, spectroscopy, crystallography, chromatographic chiral separation, laboratory data and SI units, and languages.