List of Chemistry Journals Available at Bates
Try Searching in a Single Journal:
If Bates has access to a specific journal, you can search within it very easily!
Chemistry Article Search Tools
American Chemical Society Style Guide
Ladd Library Thesis Lockers:
This research worksheet can help you organize both your searches and their results. To use this, you will need to make a personal copy. And even if you don't use THIS sheet, it should give you a pretty solid idea about the kinds of things you will need to keep track of as you move through this project.
You will save yourself A LOT of work and hassle if you talk with your thesis adviser and decide on a structure for you thesis very early in the process. The library provides an example of one possible structure you might follow. You adviser might not like this format at all, but at the very least it gives you a concrete example to discuss.