Online Student Resources in Chemistry

general resources

  1. Student Resource Center schedule - The Student Resource Center in SI 290 offers free peer tutoring in chemistry, physics, and biology.

general chemistry resources

  1. Using Excel to help plot data in chemistry: Excel Notes
  2. Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) is an online encyclopedia with a surprising amount of general chemical information. For example, check the entry for "Lewis structures" or more generally, the category page for Chemistry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chemistry).
  3. WebElements (http://www.webelements.com/) is an online periodic table with a remarkable amount of information about each element. Includes a printable Periodic Table.
  4. Chemfinder (http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/) is a free service but it requires registration. Information about chemical compounds, including chemical structures, may be found here. One warning: molecular formulas are listed alphabetically and as such are seldom correct for ionic compounds.
  5. SciCentral (http://www.scicentral.com/) is a gateway to scientific research news sources.
  6. Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) always contain molecular formulas, physical properties, toxicity information, and sometimes contain molecular structures. A good place to start is "Where to find MSDS on the Internet" (http://www.ilpi.com/msds/).
  7. ChemExper Chemical Directory (http://www.chemexper.com/) is a database which currently lists more than 100,000 chemicals from an international range of suppliers. You may find structures and melting and boiling point information at this site.
  8. U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/) has links to all sorts of information, some of which might even be useful.
  9. The Molecule of the Month at http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/motm.htm has been providing information on a monthly basis for nearly ten years about common and important compounds in the world around us, such as hemoglobin, morphine, atenolol, and nerve gases. There are also links on the page to other "Molecule of the Month" pages.
  10. The NIST Web Book (http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/) is run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and provides detailed chemical and physical property data on over 40000 compounds, thermochemical data for over 6500 organic and small inorganic compounds, and thermochemistry data for over 9800 reactions.
  11. The World-Wide Web Virtual Library- Chemistry (http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html) - this link was last updated in 2002 but it still contains working links to many schools and companies around the world.

organic chemistry resources

  1. NMR and IR Spectra Tutorial and Problems at http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~webspectra/ .
  2. A tutorial on proton NMR spectroscopy interpretation at http://www.wfu.edu/~ylwong/chem/nmr/h1/ . Professor King also provides a tutorial on carbon-13 NMR at http://www.wfu.edu/~ylwong/chem/nmr/c13/.
  3. Selected Organic Chemistry Websites (http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/hanson/chemwebsites/organicwebsites.htm) at the University of Puget Sound provides a list of online resources and tutorials.
  4. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_nomenclature) on organic nomenclature.
  5. The organic chemistry category (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organic_chemistry) at Wikipedia. Over 140 entries are currently listed.

online searching

  1. Copernic (www.copernic.com) offers free software (PC only) that searches multiple web-based search engines, eliminates duplicate hits, and ranks results. It is an excellent product and easy to use.
  2. Google (www.google.com) is probably the largest web-based search engine today, but it does not rank the results it returns. It is a good place to look for combinations of search terms. When searching phrases remember to enclose them in quotation marks, such as "material safety data sheets".
  3. KartOO (www.kartoo.com) provides a very helpful way to refine searches and seems to provide almost as many hits as a Google search.

nanotechnology

  1. Nanotechnology and Professor Richard Feynman: one of the classic lectures on nanotechnology was given by Professor Feynman in 1959. Entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics" the lecture may be found at http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html along with links to other pages that discuss nanotechnology.
  2. The world's smallest billboard at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/atomo.html. Examples of the ability to move and position individual atoms on a surface.

 

note: this list of web-based resources is provided as a free service to the students of Salt Lake Community College. Inclusion on this list does not constitute an endorsement of any company or product nor is SLCC responsible for the content or correctness of information found at these sites.