Sandra K. Koster, Ph.D.  Lecturer
Department of Chemistry
4003 Cowley Hall
(608) 785-8282
Websites for Organic Chemistry Students

Basic Web Searching Tips

Use double quotation marks (" ") around phrases to ensure they are searched exactly as is, with the words side by side in the same order.  EXAMPLE: "Bye bye Miss American Pie"  (Do NOT put quotation marks around a single word.)

Put your most important keywords first in the string.  EXAMPLE: +hybrid electric gas vehicle

Type keywords and phrases in lower case to find both lower and upper case versions.  Typing capital letters will                  usually return only an exact match.  EXAMPLE: president retrieves both president and President

Use truncation and wildcards (e.g., *) to look for variations in spelling and word form.  EXAMPLE: librar* returns library, libraries, librarian, etc.

Credit to the University of South Carolina for these quick tips.

A site which lists physical properties of a variety of liquids.
 http://www.trimen.pl/witek/ciecze/liquids.html

A site from Notre Dame University giving structure determination problems. To get to the problems, click on Problems in the left hand frame.
http://www.nd.edu/~smithgrp/structure/workbook.html

This site also has structure determination problems using nmr and IR and the answers can be viewed.
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~webspectra/

This site has nmrs of some known compounds.
http://science.widener.edu/svb/nmr/known_gif.html

Another site where you can search for nmrs.
 http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS/menu-e.html

A site which will search on names of compounds and give physical properties.
http://www.chemfinder.com/

An excellent site for finding Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).
http://siri.org/msds/

If you are looking for NFPA labeling information (health, flammability, reactivity), try this site from Michigan State.
 http://www.orcbs.msu.edu/chemical/nfpa/nfpa.html

The Carcinogenic Potency Project, a site which gives data from testing chemicals for cancer-causing properties.
http://potency.berkeley.edu/cpdb.html

A site which will give structures and some IR and thermodynamic data.
http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/

One of the best sites to look at 3D structures of organic molecules.
http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/chem/molecule/molecule.html

Another very good site for 3D structures. This one has a lot of organic molecules listed alphabetically in two side by side screens.
http://www.dcu.ie/~chemist/pratt/pdb/pdb.htm

The IUPAC nomenclature home page.
 http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/index.html

The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology home page includes information on nomenclature of biomolecules.
 http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iubmb/

This website will calculate molecular weight from empirical formula or by using certain abbreviations for substructures, like amino acid residues or common protecting groups.
 http://www.trimen.pl/witek/calculators/masa.html

Other websites:
A safety training reseource subscribed to by UW-System
 http://safetysmart.uwsa.edu

A nice website on nuclear chemistry and isotopes.
 http://ie.lbl.gov/toi.htm

Nice videos of demonstrations from the U.K.
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/video/
http://www.vega.org.uk/

The Molecule of the Month site has information on a variety of interesting compounds
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm

This site has tutorials and dictionaries for organic reactions, nomenclature and many other topics.
http://www.organicworldwide.net/tutorial.html

For a list of abbreviations with the organic structures they represent go to
http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/iupacstructures/preferredstyles/atomlabels/abbreviations/index.html

For information on many organic "Name Reactions" see
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/thirdyearcomputing/NamedOrganicReactions.asp

For an online safety training course from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, especially good for biology and microbiology try
http://www.practicingsafescience.org/

For lots of fun and cool links, try
http://www.madsci.org/

Email me at koster.sand@uwlax.edu
Last modified 5/24/02