Resources

Below is a list of the Tunge Group’s favorite Chemistry links

• Prof. Hans Reich’s Bounty of Chemical Information (pKa tables and much more)
• Prof. Tom Lectka’s Table’s of Bond Strengths
• Prof. Dr. Herbert Mayr’s Reactivity Database (electrophilicities and nucleophilicities)
• Prof. Douglass Taber’s Organic-chemistry.org is full of useful info and applets
• Prof. Alison Frontier’s Not Voodoo site has tons of practical tips for synthetic chemists
• Prof. Jon Njardarson’s Chemistry by Design is a great way to analyze and study natural product synthesis
• Oleksandr Zhurakovkyi’s invaluable Reference Resolver - just copy and paste references from papers and Voila
• Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
• NIST Chemistry Webbook
• Cambridge University’s Eyring applet (determine effects of temperature on reaction rate)
• Cambridge University’s Vapor pressure applet and Rotovap simulator are useful for distillations and solvent removal.
• List of Chemistry Journal Abbreviations
• The UCLA Chemistry Haiku Project reminds us how hopeless we are
• In the Pipleline is always an interesting read
• Time to kill?  Check out the blog with the name that makes me chuckle B.R.S.M.
• More good synthetic blogging @ Syntheticnature
• Matt McIntosh’s Organiclinks (listings of Organic chemists in the US)
• UIUC Chemical Genealogy page
• Safety:  UCI's website is a good source of SOP's