Best Chemistry Web Sites: Education/Government Sites

Judith N. Currano, University of Pennsylvania

 

Online Courseware and Subject Tutorials

Organic Chemistry

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.

 

Physical Chemistry

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

 http://www.2ndlaw.com/,

 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.

 

Inorganic Chemistry

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/icl/dermot/mechanism1/

 Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms.  A series of four online lecture synopses from Oxford University.

 

General Chemistry

http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index

 General Chemistry Online, from the Department of Chemistry, Frostburg State University.

 

http://wulfenite.fandm.edu

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.

 

Crystallography

http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/crystal/teaching/teaching.html

 Interactive tutorial about diffraction, from the departments of crystallography in Wurtzburg and Munchen.

 

 

 

Databases/Databanks of Chemical Information

Biological Chemistry

http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu/

 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.

 

Organic Chemistry

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. 

 

Physical Chemistry

http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/ASD1/choice.html?archive/data.html

NIST Atomic Spectra Databases

 

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/

 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

 

Inorganic Chemistry

<a href=http://www.ceramics.nist.gov/webbook/evaluate.htm</a>

NIST Ceramics Webbook.

 

Crystallography/Spectroscopy

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.

 

Tools

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.

 

 

Non-Academic/Government Sites that Sneaked in

http://www.chemspy.com/

 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.

 

http://www.askache.com/

 Links to various sites of interest to chemical engineers.  Includes an e-mail reference service.

 

 

Old Standards

http://www.chemfinder.com

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.