Instructional
General Chemistry
Content
- Chemistry Resources, Purdue
Links to "helper" programs and lecture notes, annotated with topic lists. Mainly general chemistry but also organic, analytical, and physical.
- VSEPR Module, Purdue University
Discussion and rotatable images to illustrate VSEPR, including a "Compare Two Structures" module.
Problems
- Chemistry Drill and Practice Tutorials
Drill problems for many topics General Chemistry. Elementary but helpful. Recommended
- ConcepTests, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Problems on atoms, stoichiometry, states of matter, equilibrium, electronic structure, thermochemistry, kinetics, bonding, acid/base, precipitation, and electrochemistry. Recommended
- Tests
This site offers exams and finals for both semesters of general chemistry. The Word files can be downloaded.
Images and Animations
- Molecular Viewing Gallery
Several hundred molecules, both small and large, in Chime and RasMol versions.
- Molecule of the Month, University of Bristol
Variety of molecular structures in HTML, Chime, or VRML versions
- Animations, General, Organic, and Biochemistry, University of Akron
Animations displaying molecular rotations and a number of principles associated with General Chemistry.
Inorganic Chemistry
- Bibliography
Texts and articles of value in understanding topics in Inorganic Chemistry.
Organic Chemistry
Content
- Chemistry Resources, Purdue
Links to "helper" programs and lecture notes, annotated with topic lists. Mainly general chemistry but also organic, analytical and physical.
- Organic Chemistry OnLine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Synthesis problems with help feature for aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids, and acyl transfer reactions
- The Grignard Reaction, University of Sunderland
A discussion with problems of this important reaction.
Problems
- Organic Chemistry OnLine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Problems on bonding (resonances, acids/bases, hybridization), alkanes and isomerism, akenes and addition reactions, stereochemistry, alkyl halides (substitution and elimination), and spectroscopy.
- ConcepTests, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Problems in bonding, stereochemistry, spectroscopy, resonance, reactions, synthesis.
- Organic Problems and Quizzes, Colby College
Problems, quizzes, and exams for both semesters of Organic Chemistry.
Laboratory
- The Organic Laboratory
Pictures designed to show laboratory procedures for mostly macroscale experiments such as determination of distribution coefficients, extraction, melting points, dehydration of an alcohol, catalytic hydrogenation, Grignard reaction, Beilstein test, prepartion of butyl bromide, oxidative coupling of an alkyne.
Spectroscopy
- Spectrometric Identification of Organic Molecules
Links to helpful sites with information on NMR, IR, EPR, MS.
- NMR Spectroscopy, H. Reszpa, Imperial College
Textual material on NMR theory. Slightly above the organic level.
- IR, MS, C-13 NMR Charts and Examples, Colby College
See section on C-13 Examples for C-13 shift chart.
- Introduction to MRI, University of Virginia
An introduction to this increasingly important medical technique, based upon NMR spectroscopy.
Images & Animations
- Cycloalkane Conformations, Michigan State
Molecular images of cyclopropane through cyclohexane. Can view various conformations, highlight equatorial hydrogens, etc.
- Reaction Animations, University of Texas
Animations of eight reactions such as Diels-Alder, Michael, aldol.
- Animations, University of Arizona
Helpful animations on conformation, IR, SN2 mechanism, protein structure, molecular recognition, and heme.
- Learning By Visualization, Colby
Animations on orbitals, akanes, stereochemistry, carbocationic rearrangements, nucleophilic substitution, electrophilic aromatic substitution, MS, aldehydes and ketones, enolates, amines, etc.
History
- History of Science, Echo Virtual Center
Links to bibliographies and other collections on the history of science.
- History of Chemical Engineering
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers' history of engineering.
- The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Biographies of the Nobel Prize winners in chemistry from 1901-1996.
- 4000 Years of Women in Science
Short biographies and pictures of women in science.
Molecular Images
- Library of 3-D Molecular Structures, New York University
Downloadable pdb, gif, and vrml files for a variety of molecules.
- WWW Chemicals Structure Database
Access (after free registration) to a database of 127,000 molecular images.
- Protein Data Bank (PDB), Brookhaven National Laboratory
Archive of experimentally determined 3-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
- Molecular Modeling, Lebanon Valley College
Rotatable images of VSEPR examples, coordination compounds, elemental crystal structures, binary inorganics, sunscreens, hormones, morphine analogs, and neurotransmitters; animations of several hydrocarbons and conformational changes in cyclohexane
- Molecular Graphics Files, University of West Indies
3-D models of both inorganic coordination complexes and bioorganic molecules.
- Virtual Reality Modeling Language in Chemistry, University of Darmstadt
About a dozen VRML models of biomolecules. Requires VRML plug-in.