Associations
- American Chemical Society
- The largest professional society in the world, the A.C.S. offers many fascinating links and tools relating to chemistry.
- Electrochemical Society
- A site designed for your electrochemical needs.
- The National Science Foundation
- The United States government agency which promotes science and engineering programs.
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Biochemistry
- Amino Acids
- Choose your favorite amino acid and find out the linear structure, CAS Registry number, molecular formula,
and more!
- Biotechnology Information Center (National Agriculture Library)
- Searchable access to a variety of information services and publications covering many aspects of biotechnology.
- Biochemist Online
- Contains links to much of the reference material useful to biochemists that is available on the Internet.
- Expasy Molecular Biology Server
- Provides access to databases containing citations and 3-D color images of protein sequences & enzymes! Also provides links to other molecular biology sites.
- Interactive Biochemistry
- An impressive collection of Java Biochemistry tutorials... awesome! Use a recent browser for optimum performance.
- SCOP: Structural Classification of Proteins
- Describes "structural and evolutionary relationships of all known protein structures." Organized by class, fold, super family, family and species. User can browse the hierarchy or use a keyword, amino acid sequence, or PDB identifier search to navigate. Provides hypertext links to a variety of different information sources, including Swiss-3DImage, RasMol Script, Chime View, NCBI Entrez Sequence Entries, and Protein Databank Entries.
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Chemical Safety
- Chemical Safety Bibliography
- Provides citations for chemical safety information located in the University of Chicago Libraries (with the appropriate call numbers for their collection), although there are some links to Internet sites.
- Material Safety Data Sheets
- A searchable index to the MSDS provided by the chemical manufacturers.
- National Toxicology Program
- Contains testing information, publications, health and safety information, and participating agencies.
- Safety Information Resources on the Internet
- Contains information pertaining to occupational and environmental safety, including e-mail lists, text and graphics files, MSDS, and links to other safety and health web sites.
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Chemistry (General Resources)
- American Chemical Society
- Contains information about the society, including an events calendar. Also contains a job database.
- Chemical Industry Supplier Registry
- Manual compilation of chemical suppliers enabling buyers to easily source manufacturers for price and capacity of commodity and specialty chemicals by name or CAS registry number. Site includes new projects, free magazines, jobs, news and events.
- Chemistry Info for High School
- Nice collection of Internet sites for chemistry, arranged by broad subject.
- Chemical Information Sources from Indiana University
- An excellent, well organized collection of chemistry resources, Internet and print.
- Computational Chemistry (Ohio Supercomputing Center)
- Contains files on the computational chemistry mailing list, sets of data for use with computational chemistry programs, documents describing various methods, approaches, standards, jobs, periodicals, legislative information, software, and style sheets for LaTeX, bibTeX, and ChemTeX.
- Google Chemistry Directory
- A compendium of useful chemistry sites on the World Wide Web.
- Links for Chemists / Virtual Library Chemistry
- An excellent source for finding chemistry information on the internet.
- World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Chemistry
- Contains links to academic institutions, non-profit and commercial organizations, chemistry software and specialty ads, chemical industry consultants, publications, employment opportunities and announcements.
- Yahoo! Chemistry Directory
- A reference page with numerous links to chemistry-related fields.
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Chemistry Tools
- 3D Structure Database of Chemicals
- A database with over 400 3D chemical structures which may be downloaded and manipulated with the Chime program. Wonderful!
- ChemDex
- Provides links to over 2175 sites, accessible by category: universities, commercial sites, government sites, periodic tables, chemical education, software, journals, publishers and conferences, societies and associations, and newsgroups and listservs.
- ChemFinder
- Accessible by common or chemical name, molecular weight, molecular formula, evaporation rate, structure, or
CAS registry number. Information includes melting, boiling and flash points, RTECS, DOT and EPA codes, specific gravity, solubility, vapor density, and structure. Also contains links for each compound.
- Chemicool Periodical Table
- Contains data for the first 110 elements (general, states, energies, oxidation and electrons, appearance and characteristics, reactions, forms, radius, conductivity, and abundance).
- The NIST Chemistry WebBook
- Searchable database of thermodynamic and ion-energetics data. Searchable by name, formula, and CAS number.
- ChemPuter
- Contains links to "simple interactive calculators for chemistry." Includes isotope patterns, element percentages, oxidation states and electron accountancy.
- Chime & ISIS
- Wonderful programs for creating and viewing 3D molecules on the Web. A must for the true chemist!
- Molecule of the Month
- Each month a new molecule is detailed... very interesting.
- RasMol Home Page
- Rasmol (as well as Chime and Protein Explorer) can view molecular models, and this site has information on RasMol as well as the other related topics.
- SOLV-DB
- Provides access to information on commercially available solvents, including health and safety considerations, chemical and physical data, regulatory responsibilities, environmental fate data, and manufacturer information. Includes detailed searching instructions.
- Web Elements and the Periodic Table
- Contains links to data for the first 112 elements (general, chemical, physical, biological, reduction potentials, electron configurations, etc.), although the complete Periodic Table is shown. Also includes links for publications and posters and nomenclature of the heavy elements.
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Educational Resources
- Chemical Education Resource
Shelf
- Contains links to publishers who maintain Web pages, and many links to pages devoted to individual titles; additionally, the online version includes citations and links to reviews. Also includes "Hal's Picks of the Month," recommendations of books and recent articles for teachers of chemistry and related sciences.
- Chemical of the Week
- "In his General Chemistry courses, Prof. Shakhashiri distributes a weekly fact sheet about a chemical or type of chemical to increase students' knowledge about chemicals, their production, cost, and uses." So far, fact sheets include topics such as chelates and chelating agents, methyl tertiary-butyl ether, ethanol, the chemistry of autumn colors, and lime.
- Chemistry 003 Homepage
- A wonderful collection of utilities from Georgetown University for general chemistry with only some of them being course-specific for Chem 003.
- Chemistry 145 (Van Bramer) Homepage
- Great collection of general chemistry tools and utilities.
- Chemistry Teaching Resources
- Wonderful collection of tools for both the instructor and the student.
- Famous Women and Minority Chemists
- A set of pages devoted to famous women and minority chemists with extensive biographical information.
- Kotz Chemistry & Chemical Reactivity (5th Edition) Webpage
- The webpage designed to accompany this textbook.
- The Nobel e-Museum
- The official website of the Nobel Foundation with biographies and information on the recipients of their awards.
- The Osiris Property Explorer
- This JAVA based website allows you to enter a structure, then the molecule is analyzed for toxicity, drug likelihood, and other features.
- The Periodic Table of Videos
- An awesome collection of chemistry videos highlighting each of the elements. Fun to browse through, if you have time to kill!
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- Science Teachers' Resource Center
- An award-winning website devoted to the sharing of educational ideas in science.
- The Why Files
- An outreach of the National Institute for Science Education which attempts to explain the science behind topics in the news.
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Electronic Journals
- Chemical & Engineering News
- The weekly publication of the American Chemical Society. Some sections are available to anyone while others require a password.
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Journal of Chemical Education
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Environmental Chemistry & Toxicology
- EXTOXNET - EXtension TOXicology NETwork
- Provides information on pesticide toxicology and environmental chemistry, including discussions of toxicological issues of concern (TICs), toxicology newsletters, other resources for toxicology information, toxicology fact sheets, Pesticide Information Profiles (PIPs), and Toxicology Information Briefs (TIBs).
- Internet TOMS
- The official website for information from NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instruments. Very cool.
- The US EPA Student Center
- A rich source of information on environmental issues.
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Humor
- The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements
- A very fun site to explore the lighter side of the elements...
- Making Chemistry Hard
- A top ten list of things to do to make chemistry as difficult as possible.
- The Periodic Table of Poetry
- Odes to the elements! A must-see site!
- This Week in Chemistry
- Special events in the field of chemistry are outlined.
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Inorganic Chemistry
- Division of Inorganic Chemistry
- The behaviors of the Inorganic Division of the American Chemical Society are explained.
- Inorganic Chemistry Teaching Resources
- Tidbits from Washington State University for helping teach inorganic chemistry.
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Magazines
- American Heritage of Invention
& Technology
- ChemMatters
- Discover Magazine
- National Geographic
- Popular Mechanics
- Popular Science
- Science News
- Scientific American
- Suitable for high-school level and above
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Organic Chemistry
- Organic Name Reactions
- This is an outstanding list of organic name reactions; one of the best I've seen!
- Organic Nomenclature Introduction Tutorial
- A tutorial to help guide your understanding of organic compounds and their names.
- Spectroscopic Tools
- Allows the user to search for 1H and 13C NMR chemical shifts, as well as IR and MS searches. Nice site!
- Vapor Pressures of Volatile Chemicals
- A great resource to find the vapor pressures of organic volatile chemicals.
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Physical Chemistry
- The Particle Adventure
- The ultimate site (in my opinion) for discussing elementary particles. Get 'yer quarks and leptons here... ;-) A great tutorial for those interested in learning about the particles which exist beyond the electron and proton.
- Zona Land
- This site contains an expanding set of tutorials on physics and math applications.
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Web Tutorials
- CAChe Molecular Modeling Tutorials
- A set of tutorials designed to help you learn the CAChe system.
- Chemical Bonds, Molecular Shapres and Molecular Orbitals
- A tutorial to help understand the principles of molecular bonding.
- Organic Nomenclature Introduction Tutorial
- A tutorial to help guide your understanding of organic compounds and their names.
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Copyright © 2009 by Dr.
Michael Russell
Professor of Chemistry at Mt. Hood Community College
Gresham, Oregon, USA 97030
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