Electron-Pushing Tutorial

  1. Curly Arrows - University of Aberdeen

NMR Spectroscopy

  1. Photo of an NMR Spectromenter
  2. Another photo of an NMR Spectromenter
  3. Varian Instruments NMR Demo (Flash)
  4. Varian Instruments NMR Home Page
  5. proton-NMR spectrum of 1-bromo-2,2-dimethylpropane
  6. proton-NMR spectrum of ethanol
  7. Chart showing proton NMR chemical shifts (Wikipedia)
  8. Chart showing 13-C NMR chemical shifts (Wikipedia)
  9. Table of proton NMR chemical shifts
  10. Table of carbon-13 NMR chemical shifts

IR Spectroscopy

  1. Electromagnetic radiation
  2. IR spectrum of hexanol
  3. IR spectrum of pentanoic acid
  4. Vibration Animations
  5. Common Functional Groups IR Frequencies
  6. Spectroscopy Problems (NMR, too)
  7. Modern IR Instruments (Wooster U)
  8. Example of a modern IR Instrument

Aldehydes and Ketones

  1. Bonding in Carbonyl Compounds
  2. Organic Nomenclature Review

Functional Group Priorities (Nomenclature)

  1. Group Priorities
  2. Group priorities (another site)

Natural Product Structure Determination and Total Synthesis

  1. Strychnine History
  2. Strychnine 3D structure
  3. Robert Robinson (1886-1975)
  4. Strychnine (Structure and NMR Experiments)
  5. The Art and Science of Total Synthesis (Angew. Chem. 2000, 39, 44-1222)
  6. R. B. Woodward (1917-1979)

Oxidations and Reductions

  1. Oxidizing Agents - L.M. Sweeting, Towson University

Carboxylic Acids

  1. Table of pKa's
  2. Diazomethane generators/reactors

Flavor Chemistry (Many esters)

  1. Links to Flavor and Fragrance Information Sites
  2. Unlocking the Secrets of Taste

Beta-lactam Antibiotics

  1. Penicillins and Cephalpsporins

Chemical Structure Drawing Programs

  1. ChemSketch Windows - 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. ChemDraw - MacOS/Windows. Currently free for Rutgers students.
  6. Chem 4-D - Windows, Mac (Student Pricing)

Synthesis and Reactions

  1. Named Reactions
  2. Cholesterol and other Steroids
  3. Robinson Annulation (Wikipedia)
  4. Robert Robinson
  5. Other early steroid chemists

Mass Spectrometry

  1. A History of Mass Spectrometry
  2. Photographs of Mass Spectrometers
  3. A High-resolution Mass Spectrometer
  4. Mass spectrum of 2-methylbutane
  5. Mass spectrum of 1-bromopropane

Synthetic Challenges

  1. Cash for synthetic ideas - InnoCentive/Eli Lilly

Computational Chemistry and Electronic Structure Calculations

  1. Wikipedia article
  2. GAMESS - free program
  3. PC GAMESS - free
  4. Ghemical - free molecule builder and MO viewer
  5. Spartan - Commercial Program
  6. Gaussian - Commercial Program
  7. HyperChem - Commercial Program
  8. Jaguar - Commercial Program

Benzene and Aromaticity

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

NMR Spectroscopy of Aromatic Compounds

  1. Effect of Ring Currents

Reactions of Benzene Derivatives

  1. Quinoline Yellow SS
  2. Quinoline Yellow SS Structure
  3. Quinoline Yellow WS
  4. Quinoline Yellow WS Structure
  5. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Intermediate
  6. Another Intermediate

Alkaloids

  1. Alkaloid examples/history
  2. Alkaloid biosyntheses
  3. Poison-dart frogs

Nitrosamines

  1. Nitrosamines and Cancer
  2. Tobacco and Nitrosamines
  3. Carcinogenisis by highly reactive nitrosamines
  4. Food Preservatives

Diels-Alder Reactions

  1. Orbital Symmetry
  2. Diels-Alder Orbital Animation
  3. Another Diels-Alder Animation

Organometallic Chemistry

  1. Organometallic Hypertexbook
  2. Grubbs Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis
  3. Olefin Metathesis: The Early Days
  4. Olefin Metathesis: 2005 Chemistry Nobel Prize