Handy Chemistry Links
Safety
MSDS Listings Chemical Inventory (JMU only)
Organic Tools
Name Reactions from University of Liverpool Name Reactions from Merck Index Name Reactions from Organic-Chemistry.Org Organic Chemistry Tools and Data (Reusch)
General Resources
Undergraduate Database (CIRRUS) Periodic Table Site: Chemical Elements Periodic Table Site: Web Elements Not Voodoo: Demystifying Synthetic Organic Laboratory Technique
Spectra
AIST (Japan) NMR (Reush)
JMU in the News
An article in AACU An article in Chemical and Engineering News Another article in C + EN (8.30.2004)
People
Synthetic Chemists in the US Directory of Graduate Research Jerry Meinwold's Site Top Chemists: The Hirsh Index
http://www.setonresourcecenter.com/MSDS/index.htm Searchable database for Material Safety Data Sheets. http://cirrus.chem.plu.edu/ An undergraduate chemistry research database from Pacific Lutheran University. http://www.chemicalelements.com/ and http://www.webelements.com/ Two interesting periodic table sites. All you ever wanted to know about the elements, and more. http://www.organicworldwide.net/ A comprehensive set of organic chemistry tools, from lab techniques to structure analysis. http://www.liv.ac.uk/chemistry/links/reactions.html http://themerckindex.cambridgesoft.com/TheMerckIndex/NameReactions/TOC.asp Two compendia of name reactions; each has great references but no mechanisms. http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS/menu-e.html A Japanese government website with an excellent spectral database. http://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/OrgPage/tables.htm Data tables for solvents, NMR, isotopes, and other topics from Michigan State University. http://www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/pkatable/index.htm Very thorough lists of pKa’s in DMSO. http://www.mdlchime.com/chime/ Free Download of a chemical visualization tool. http://www.chem.cornell.edu/fs31/index.html The homepage of Jerry Meinwold at Cornell University. He is a world leader in natural products chemistry (and chemical ecology)
http://www.aacu.org/aacu_news/AACUNews04/April04/feature.cfm An article about JMU summer research programs that mentions our group's research.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/education/8218/8218education.html An article in Chemical and Engineering News (May 3, 2004) that features JMU.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/education/8235/8235education.html Another article in Chemical and Engineering News (August 30, 2004) about JMU's REU program..
http://www.organiclinks.net/ Where are the synthetic organic chemists in the USA? Here's a pretty comprehensive list!
http://dgr.rints.com/ A searchable database of the ACS Directory of Graduate Research
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/news/2007/april/23040701.asp The Hirsh index -- a measure of scientific importance measuring publications and citations