Chronology
1951 Founding of the Beilstein Institute for the Literature of Organic Chemistry by the Max Planck Society as a Foundation under civil law
1951 Production of the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry
1983 Building of the Beilstein database
1991 First release of the Beilstein Current Facts in Chemistry on CD-ROM
1991 Development of the Autonom software for the generation of systematic names from organic chemical structures and CrossFire software for the Beilstein database
1998 End of handbook production - the fourth edition comprises 503 volumes with 440,814 pages
2005 Start of the online journal "Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry"
2007 Selling of the rights to the Beilstein database
