Chemistry 470 Weblinks

There are many more websites than we could possibly list here. If you find any that you find particularly good, let us know.

Check this one out for a course designed for 14-17 year olds: SUPER QUİNTET CHEMISTRY I

The University of Illinois has put a number of historic manuscripts online in their "From Alchemy to Chemistry: 500 Years of Rare and Interesting Books."

SUGGESTED WEBSITES FOR FUNDAMENTALS REVIEWS

• Wavefunctions
• Symmetry elements and operations
• Point group assignment
• Lewis structures
• Electron configuration
• Periodic trends
• VSEPR
• Ligands
• Electron counting in complexes

• Visualizing pheonomena in chemistry, engineering, math and physics.
  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.
• John Dalton, the man and his legacy: the bicentenary of his Atomic Theory.
  Dalton Trans. 2003, 3811-3820.
• NIST Chemistry WebBook and NIST Physical Reference Data.
  The National Institute of Standards and Technology is the definitive source for physical data.
• WebElements.
  One of the best, if not the best, periodic chart on the Web, is WebElements. Click on an element and get lots of information. If there is a discrepancy between NIST Data and that in the chart, trust NIST.
• Chemguide.
  Chemguide is a good resource for much basic chemistry. (It is maintained as a resource for UK students studying for their A level exams.) For review of the Chem 270 topics, the sections on atomic structure and bonding and  inorganic chemistry are particularly relevant.
• Second and third electron affinities are discussed in Pearson, R. G. Inorg. Chem. 1991, 30, 2856.
• 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. I find that  some of the WSU CHIME pages cannot be viewed with Internet Explorer, so use Netscape.  WSU Inorganic Chemistry Resources
• Two sites that provide interactive graphical representations of atomic and some molecular orbitals.
  • Atomic Orbitals  You can download the Orbital Viewer from this site and use it as a stand alone on your computer.
  • The Orbitron
• There are a number of tutorial sites for VSEPR. Here are two:
  • VSEPR Help Page at Purdue University
  • VSEPR at Sheffield University
• 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.
• 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.
• Two excellent papers by Gimarc on energy correlation (Walsh) diagrams: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1970, 92, 266-275 and J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1971, 93, 593-599.

SYMMETRY

• Otteberbein symmetry tutorial.
  Prof. Dean Johnson at Otterbein College has prepared a symmetry tutorial that enables you to visualize symmetry elements and watch the transformations from symmetry operations.
• Symmetry operations and point group assignments.
  Prof. James Tyrrell at Southern Illinois University has prepared a nice description of symmetry operations and point group assignment.
• Flow charts for assigning point groups (chart 1 and chart 2).
  These charts can be used to help you assign point groups.
• Character tables online.
  There are many character tables online. Here are a few.
  • Point Group Tables from the Bilbao Crystallographic Server
  • Character Tables for chemically important point groups from a group at  the Max Planck Institut
  • Character Tables for most point groups at NM State University
• Two web sites that talk about crystallography and symmetry in three dimensions (space groups) are one by Prof. Bernhard Rupp, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and one at  Keele University.