Best Chemistry Web Sites: Education/Government Sites
Judith
N. Currano, University of Pennsylvania
Online Courseware and Subject Tutorials
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/stoddart/research.htm
Stoddart group main page. Gives information on the research activities of the group, and brief descriptions of the science behind everything. Nifty simulations and diagrams.
http://www.towson.edu/~sweeting/orgrxs/reactsum.htm
Organic chemistry lectures and quizzes by Linda Sweeting, Towson University. Presents information on reactions and syntheses of functional groups, as well as a quiz on each section.
http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/nmr-main.htm
The Basics of NMR, from RIT. Online textbook w/examples.
http://www.secondlaw.com/default.htm
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, by Frank L. Lambert, prof. Emeritus at Occidental University. Tutorial aimed at undergraduate students. A more “technical” and “entropic” version exists at
Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
http://lorax.chem.upenn.edu./Education/java.html
Learning chemistry through java, from the Rappe group at Penn. Several different simulations accompany descriptions of scientific principles. Appropriate for undergraduates. Topics include the Mazwell-Boltzmann distribution and atomic quantum mechanics.
http://cmm.cit.nih.gov/modeling/tutorials.html
List of links, created by the NIH, to the molecular modeling tutorials from various international universities.
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/icl/dermot/mechanism1/
Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms. A series of four online lecture synopses from Oxford University.
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index
General
Chemistry Online, from the Department of Chemistry, Frostburg State University.
The Wired Chemist.
Aimed at undergraduates, but useful to all. A particularly good portion of the site is http://wulfenite.fandm.edu/Data%20/Data.html
Data for Organic, General, and
Physical Chemistry,
copyright 1989 by C.D. Shaeffer, Jr. (Elizabethtown College) and C.A.
Strausser, M.W. Thomsen, and C.H. Yoder (Franklin & Marshall), which
contains constants and physical properties for may compounds.
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/crystal/teaching/teaching.html
Interactive tutorial about diffraction, from the departments of crystallography in Wurtzburg and Munchen.
The Nucleic Acids Database, from Rutgers. Searchable by many different criteria. Returns sequence, ID, and other structural information, with literature references
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/index.html
Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) Protein Databank
http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/ncidb2
NCI anti-tumor/anti-viral screening database. Searchable by structure, or any number of other parameters. Returns availability and screening results.
http://www.ldb.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/
Lipid Databank, from Ohio State. Contains four different databases.
http://genome-www.stanford.edu/
Stanford Genomic Resources. Links to genome related databases and data sets at Stanford University.
http://cmm.cit.nih.gov/modeling/tools.html
Research tools for molecular modeling and biochemistry online.
http://www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE.html
Image Library of Biological Macromolecules. Many links to useful databases and databanks.
http://www.sdsc.edu/projects/Kinases/
Protein Kinase Resource, containing information on the enzymology, genetics, molecular and structural properties of protein kinases.
http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS/menu-e.html
Integrated Spectral Database System for Organic Compounds, from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Searchable by ID or peak; returns graphical structure and peak assignments.
http://solvdb.ncms.org/index.html
SOLV-DB, from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences. Search for solvents by name, CAS RN, properties, formula, etc.
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/ASD1/choice.html?archive/data.html
NIST Atomic Spectra Databases
The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty. Includes guidelines for methods of expressing uncertainty, in-depth information on the SI system, various physical constants, and a calculator that allows one to compute the correlation coefficient between any two constants.
http://thermodex.lib.utexas.edu/
ThermoDex: an index of selected thermodynamics handbooks. While this is specific to the collection at the University of Texas, it is useful for other libraries because it gives the librarian an idea of the different quantities contained in different handbooks.
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/elements/Elements.html
Emission spectra of elements from the University of Oregon. Select an element from the Periodic Table, and it will show either the absorption or emission spectrum. If you click on the spectral image, you can discover the exact wave number of each band. Other applets available at
<a href=http://jersey.uoregon.edu/</a>
http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/NTRS
NASA Technical Report Server
<a href=http://www.ceramics.nist.gov/webbook/evaluate.htm</a>
NIST Ceramics Webbook.
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/index.html
Crystal Lattice Structures from the Naval Research Laboratory, US Navy. Arranged by various methods. Good links to other resources in the About and FAQ sections.
http://www.chem.uni-potsdam.de/englisch/nmrsolv.html
Properties of popular NMR solvents.
http://www.chem.uni-potsdam.de/tools/index.html
Calculator for various spectroscopic shifts.
Chime from MDL
http://www.mdlchime.com/chime/
RasMol:
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/index2.htm
Links to molecular visualization freeware and demos:
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/index.html
MolScript:
http://www.avatar.se/molscript/
About VRML:
http://www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE_VRML.html. VRML stands for Virtual Reality Modeling Language.
An interface to several search engines that enable researchers to find various Web information in and about the chemical industry.
http://spectra.galactic.com/SpectraOnline/Default_ns.htm
Thermo Galactic Spectra Online. Allows a researcher to search for spectra by compound identification, properties, or by matching to an existing spectrum.
Links to various sites of interest to chemical engineers. Includes an e-mail reference service.
Chemfinder.com, links to various chemistry sites of property, behavior, and availability information.
http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry
NIST Chemistry Web Book. Contains physical property data for common organic and inorganic compounds.