{"term":{"id":"12633","title":"chemical library","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - chemical library","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.12633","code":"12633","status":"current","synonym":"<em>synonyms<\/em>: compound collection, compound library","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"\nCollection of samples (e.g., chemical compounds, natural products, over-expression library of a microbe) available for biological screening.\nSet of compounds produced through combinatorial chemistry or other means that expands around a single core structure or scaffold.\n","links":[{"term":"scaffold","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/12724"}],"sources":["PAC, 2013, 85, 1725. 'Glossary of terms used in medicinal chemistry. Part II (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)' on page 1730 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-12-11-23)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12633\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12633\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12633\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'chemical library' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.12633","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-06-07T04:37:25+00:00"}}