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Chemistry 270 Weblinks There are numerous excellent web resources on all of these topics. This is not a comprehensive list; you can do a Google search if you wish to find more. If you find particularly helpful sites, email them to your instructor. If your browser does not have
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installed, consider obtaining a free copy.
Check this one out for a course designed for 14-17 year olds: SUPER QUİNTET CHEMISTRY I
Atomic Structure and Periodicity John Dalton, the man and his legacy: the bicentenary of his Atomic Theory. Dalton Trans., 2003, 3811-3820. Learning about the actinides is a great way to understand how the periodic table is constructed. Check out these videos by Dr. Hayes on the Chemistry of the Actinides. Some periodic charts:
One of the best, if not the best, periodic chart on the Web, is WebElements.
However, there are some others that are useful and/or amusing. A chart with the names of the elements through 111. A table with a Haiku poem for each element. One listing comic book pages that involve each element The National Institute of Standards and Technology is the source of definitive physical data. The following two links will take you to Chemistry and Physics Databases.
If there is a discrepency between NIST Data and those found in other sources, trust NIST. Another place to get info is the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. JMU now has a site license. The Washington State University Inorganic Chemistry Resources site has resources including a periodic chart that shows atomic, ionic, and van der Waals sizes and a collection of inorganic structures. You must obtain Chime for your browser. Two sites that provide interactive graphical representations of atomic and some molecular orbitals.
Trying to get a better understanding of standing waves? Check out the Physics Classroom or this website on resonance and standing waves. Looking to brush up on the Modern Physics you learned in high school? Check out Physics200: The Atomic Lab at the University of Colorado or the Physics Classroom. Bonding There are a number of tutorial sites for VSEPR. Here are three:
The Virtual Chemistry site at Oxford has several resources. The VSEPR one may be helpful during your review. Several other sections will be applicable to later topics covered in 470. Lecture notes on bonding in diatomic molecules from Dr. Michael Sprik (read about Dr. Sprik's research) at Cambridge University. Some very neat applets that demonstrate various physics and chemistry concepts. See particularly the ones on hydrogenic atomic orbitals and molecular orbitals. Internet Explorer 6 is recommended.
Symmetry Professor Dean Johnson at Otterbein College has an introductory level symmetry tutorial. Another good site is at the University of Hull Prof. James Tyrrell at Southern Illinois University has prepared a nice description of symmetry operations and point group assignment. Two different types of flow charts (chart 1, chart 2) for assigning point groups. Some symmetry and point group assignment tutorials: Reciprocal Net - a crystallographic network A point group tutorial that you can download from Emory University
Reactivity
Introduction to Solids The structure of crystals at King's College Lectures on Inorganic Structure by Dr. S. J. Heyes at Oxford
Coordination Chemistry To help you review transition metal chemistry, visit Purdue University's Coordination Compounds Help Page, the coordination chemistry course outline at Université de Neuchâtel, and the course at the University of the West Indies - Mona
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