Resources List
One thing I've been meaning to do for a while is put together a links page for online resources (other than journals or blogs) that might be of interest to postgraduate chemists. I've noticed a few times recently that I'll talk to someone about a particular reaction and then tell them there's a great explanation in Andy Myers' Chem 216 notes, Baran's heterocyclic chemistry handouts or Dave Evans' lectures and they'll just stare at me blankly. Likewise, a number of groups make their group meeting presentations freely available and I've learnt a lot from reading some of these. So, below are sites I've found to be useful, but I'm sure/hoping there are lots of good ones missing so don't be shy and point them out in the comments!
Lectures/Handouts
Dave Evans Advanced Organic Chemisty 206
Lab Technique
References
pKa tables - Evans' | Reiche/Bordwell | Williams
Lectka Comprehensive Bond Strength Tables
Reich UW pages (very useful for nomenclature)
Aldrich Interactive Nomograph (don't distill without it!)
Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
Problems
Group Meeting Presentations/Seminars
Other/Misc
Jón Njarðarson's 200 best selling drugs poster
organic-chemistry.org Named Reactions
List of Organic Chemists US (organic links) | UK (A. Evans)
So, what's missing? When you've all had a chance to make comments and suggestions these'll all be enshrined on their own page for easy access!
October 18th, 2011 - 21:12
It’s not mechanism/content related, but I’ll throw out my Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors. Makes the dissertation/manuscript writing more bearable.
chemistry-blog.com/dictionary
October 18th, 2011 - 22:22
Go to MC White’s page at UCIC for spectacular organometallics notes. http://www.scs.illinois.edu/white/index.php?p=lectures
I don’t know that my resource list belongs in your resource list,
but I’m going to put your resource list in my resource list. Meta.
http://masterorganicchemistry.com/resource-guide/
October 20th, 2011 - 15:07
Thanks for the links.
October 18th, 2011 - 22:30
I’ve been trying to put together a similar resource list over the last few months, on Mendeley (linked via my name). The focus is on chemical techniques through published papers, but there’s a fair bit of overlap otherwise.
My picks for this list:
A nice overview of Baldwin’s Rules: http://euch6f.chem.emory.edu/baldwinsrules.html
I found the Scheidt group meetings useful: http://chemgroups.northwestern.edu/scheidt/GroupMeeting.htm
An interactive azeotrope database: http://eweb.chemeng.ed.ac.uk/chemeng/azeotrope_bank.html
October 18th, 2011 - 23:28
Let me just post it here: http://sites.google.com/site/chemkovsky/
October 19th, 2011 - 23:42
Wow! That’s an excellent list! Will make a careful comparison when I have more time!
Thanks to everyone for your contributions – keep them coming!
October 19th, 2011 - 00:43
A favorite time-saver of mine… Just copy the reference right out of the paper, paste it in here, and it looks it up for you. Works ~80% of the time, but still saves you hours.
http://chemsearch.kovsky.net/
October 19th, 2011 - 09:12
Thanks for the appraisal! Please don’t hesitate to write to me regarding references that were not resolved (quite often these are the results of errors in OCR).
October 19th, 2011 - 13:29
Hey Alex,
I had problems resolving anything like chem soc perkins or dalton transactions 1.
October 19th, 2011 - 13:43
I guess the exact reference would help more. But I’ll check anyway.
October 19th, 2011 - 15:46
I don’t remember the reference, just thought I’ll let you know. I’ll write to you next time I encounter anything troublesome. Thanks for that great gimmick anyway.
October 23rd, 2011 - 09:49
The resolver works like wonders and I love it, been using it for the last few months. Thanks for sharing!
October 23rd, 2011 - 10:46
Indeed. As I’ve said on the draft of the permanent resources page I can’t imagine life before it!
October 19th, 2011 - 05:02
an useful website = french organic chem lab
http://www.froc.uha.fr/French_research_in_organic_chemistry/Home.html
October 20th, 2011 - 07:36
I like natural productman, who compiles abstracts of recent syntheses and methodology in the ASAPs. It helps me to not miss any article in journals I don’t read: http://naturalproductman.wordpress.com/
Also http://www.organic-chemistry.org/ where Douglas Taber has up like 4 post per months about some recent total synthesis and methodology.
October 20th, 2011 - 12:36
http://cssp.chemspider.com/ for some pretty good procedures!
October 20th, 2011 - 12:36
mind if I post a few of these links on my blog as well?
October 20th, 2011 - 15:50
Of course not! Sharing knowledge can only be good!
October 20th, 2011 - 16:41
A total synthesis/named reactions database : http://www.synarchive.com
You can make a neat “average yields” table using it