Experimental Tools
- How to Clean Glassware by Sigma Aldrich
- LCMS/HRMS SOP by Levi Zanders
- Synthetic Organic Lab Techniques
- The Safety Net
- How to do flash column chromatography by Zakarian group with a video
- Practical Lab Techniques by R. Shenvi
- Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Characterisation Guidelines
- NIST Chemistry WebBook (for Mass spec, etc)
- Periodic Table
- Solvent Polarity Index and Solubility in Water
- Solvent Polarity (concise)
- pKa compliation by R. Williams
- Evans pKa table
- Bordwell pKa Table
- Zirchome pKa Table (600 organic compounds)
- Concentration Calculator
- Unit Converter
- Aldrich’s Pressure-Temperature Nomograph
- Vacuum Pump Maintenance
- Grades of Chemicals
- How to fold a fluted filter paper
- How to use the schlenk line by Andryi Borys
- Significant Figures
- Significant Figures Calculator
NMR tools
- Common NMR Impurities
- Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
- Aldrich (NMR)
- Method of Determining Coupling Constant Values (T. R. Hoye and H. Zhao, JOC, 2002, 67, 4014, DOI 10.1021/jo001139v)
- NMR predictor and searcher
- How to wash NMR Tubes
- How to process 2D NMR in ACD
Electrochemistry tools
Writing Resources
- Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal-S. Joseph Levine
- Writing Proposals and Grant – UCLA
- Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation – S. Joseph Levine
- Guidelines on Style
- The Elements of Style
- Yale Writing Prose
- Type accent marks, diacritics and other characters onlines
Presentations
- The art of presenting (talks and lectures)
Research Opportunities
- CSURP
- TURC
- TU-STEM-UP Program for Participation in STEM by Underrepresented Populations
- Graduate Programs at TU
- Graduate School Tuition & Living Expenses at TU
- Graduate Financial Assistance – TU
- Student Research Grant Program – TU
- Chemistry Departments Worldwide
- Synthetic Organic Chemists in the US
Educational
Organic I and II Material Books
- Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry (with a Biological Emphasis)
- Organic Reaction Mechanisms by S R Hussaini (coming soon)
- Instructions on deciding whether substitution or elimination will occur by Bob Grossman
- How to tell if a nucleophile is good or not? by UCI Sites
- Organic I and II Tutorials, Exams, etc.
- Organic II, Tips, Handouts by Bob Grossman
- MIT OpenCourseWare (Lectures, exams, assignments, etc.)
- Khanacademy
- Stereochemistry Help
- Newman Projections
- Fischer and Zig-Zag Projections Missing Scheme1-2
- Electron Pushing in Organic Chemistry
- Name Reactions-Organic Chemistry Portal
- ChemTube3D
- Entropy by Parth G
- Why do atoms form molecules and why octet rule is followed by Arvin Ash
- Computational Chemistry
Scholarship Opportunities
- TU-STEM-UP – TU program for Participation in STEM by Underrepresented Populations
- Fastweb – connection to scholarships, financial aid and more
- Dell Scholarship for university education
- APIA Scholarship for Asian and/or Pacific Islanders for attending college or university
- Simon Youth Foundation – Shari Simon Greenberg Community Scholarship for attending college, university or vocational/technical school
- Daughters of the American Revolution – For High School students who want to go to a university in the US
Graduate Level Organic Chemistry
- Symmetry Elements and Symmetry Operations by Professor Kastner
- Symmetry Elements, perations, point groups and more by Professor Dean H. Johnston
- MIT OpenCourseWare (Lectures, exams, assignments, etc.)
- Reactivity Scales by Professor Herbert Mayr
- Mayr’s Database of Reactivity Parameters
Links for Pre-Meds
OSU – College of Osteopathic Medicine Events and Recruitment Calendar
OU – Free MCAT practice tests, tours, and more
Info for Advanced Undergraduate & Graduate Students
Many Links
- Reich’s Web Page
- ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Web Links
- Delicious – Organic Chemistry Bookmarks
Individual Planning Tool for Graduate Students and Postdocs from ACS
General Interest
- ACD/NMR Processor – Free for academic use
- MarvinSketch and ChemSketch – Free chemical structure drawing programs
- The Vega Science Trust Videos-Interviews of famous scientists etc.
- Chemical Calculations programs (mechanism calculator, functional group finder, hybridization calculator etc.) by Robert Grossman of University of Kentucky
- Encyclopedia of Reagents