Lecture Sites

Introduction to Molecular Structure

  1. Tamiflu 3D Structure
  2. Tamiflu Mode of Action
  3. Tamiflu Mode of Action (Movie)

Historical Figures

  1. Lavoisier - portrait
  2. Lavoisier - brief biography
  3. Lavoisier - images of laboratory
  4. Lavoisier - Elements of Chemistry 1789
  5. Lavoisier - Elements of Chemistry 1799 Translation

  6. Wöhler - short biography and image
  7. Wöhler - English translation of his 1828 research article
  8. Urea structure
  9. Urea - Structure and brief history

  11. Mendeleev's First Periodic Table 1869

  12. Linus Pauling photo
  13. Linus Pauling biography
  14. Linus Pauling - The Nature of the Chemical Bond 1939 (Oregon State Library)

Orbitals/Bonding

  1. Electronegativity trends
  2. Methane tetrahedral structure
  3. More depictions of methane
  4. VSEPR Practice (Purdue)
  5. s-Orbitals
  6. p-Orbitals
  7. H2 molecular orbital diagram
  8. pi bonds and sigma bonds
  9. Orbitron- University of Sheffield

Periodic Tables

  1. Full Table
  2. Upper Region

Acids and Bases

  1. List of useful pKas

Nomenclature/Structure-Drawing

  1. IUPAC Nomenclature
  2. Another IUPAC Nomenclature Site
  3. Line-Angle Drawing Practice

Hydrocarbon Sources

  1. Fossil Fuel Origins
  2. Fractional Distillation of Petroleum
  3. Out of Gas, by David Goodstein
  4. Shorter essay version of Out of Gas

Conformations

  1. Conformational analysis of ethane
  2. Conformational analysis of butane
  3. 1,3-Diaxial Interactions
  4. Substituted cyclohexane/ring flip

Electron-Pushing Guides

  1. Guide by Hans Reich, Univeristy of Wisconsin

Free Radicals

  1. Moses Gomberg and the Triphenylmethyl Radical (1900)

Alkene Topics

  1. Hybrid Orbitals, Sigma and Pi bonds (U of Ill-Chicago)
  2. Ethylene (ethene) bonding

Chemical Structure Drawing Programs

  1. ChemSketch Windows/Linux - Free version (see the Freeware link)
  2. Chemtool - Linux/Unix - Free
  3. JChemPaint - Windows/Linux/Unix - Free
  4. Xdrawchem - Linux, Unix, MacOSX, Windows - Free
  5. Chem 4-D - Windows, Mac (Student Pricing)
  6. ChemDoodle - Windows, Mac, Linux (ca. $60)
  7. BKChem - Linux (Free)
  8. ChemDraw - Free for Rutgers Students (but must renew license each year)

Reaction Mechanisms/Electrophilic Addition to Alkenes

  1. Reaction Mechanism Animations . Copyright: ( Mike Docker )
  2. Vladimir Markovnikov (1838-1904)

Polymers

  1. Recycling Symbols and Polymer Structures
  2. Another Recycling Symbol Site

Chirality

  1. Chiral objects
  2. Achiral objects
  3. Mirror-image molecules
  4. Polarized light
  5. Polarimeter
  6. LCD Polarization
  7. LCD subpixel
  8. Chiral Drugs
  9. Chiral Drugs (more)

Enzymes

  1. Line-Angle Drawing of an Enzyme
  2. Ribbon Drawing of the Same Enzyme
  3. Enzyme Reaction Cartoon
  4. Enzyme Specificity (Lock and Key)

SN2 Reactions

  1. Animation of an SN2 Reaction
  2. Another animation of an SN2 Reaction

Alkynes

  1. Carbide Lamp Demo
  2. Carbide Lamp Portal
  3. Carbide Lamps and Supplies
  4. sp1 Orbitals
  5. Acetylene (ethyne) bonds
  6. Acetylene (ethyne) structure
  7. Acid strengths/Terminal Alkynes
  8. Vinylic Carbocation Stabilities

Allylic Systems and Dienes

  1. Diels-Alder MOs
  2. Diels-Alder MOs (another view)

Benzene and Aromaticity

  1. August Kekule
  2. Overlap of p Orbitals
  3. Benzene Molecular Orbitals

Organic Synthesis

  1. Article: The Art and Science of Total Synthesis

Reactions of Benzene Derivatives

  1. Eletrophilic Aromatic Substitition Intermediate
  2. Quinoline Yellow SS
  3. Quinoline Yellow SS Structure
  4. Quinoline Yellow WS
  5. Quinoline Yellow WS Structure