Instrumentation

• The NMR Home Page at the University of Potsdam has lots of useful info about NMR basics, solvents, couplings, nuclei and more!!
• Introduction to MS from Science Hypermedia.
• Several short essays and tutorials on MS are available from JEOL.
• Web Elements (see below) can give you the isotopic abundances of any element (and nuclear spins for NMR as well).
• The Sheffield ChemPuter can calculate isotope patterns for a given mass spectra fragment.

 

Scientific Writing

The UK Writing Center offers one-on-one help with writing skills. Check out their schedule and web site if you have any questions.

 

Periodic Tables

• The Periodic Table Challenge is an on-line fill-in-the-blank periodic table.
• Web Elements is the ultimate repository of all kinds of elemental information.
• The Chemicool periodic table at MIT. Click on an element for numeric data.

 

Inorganic Concepts

• John Nash at Purdue U has an excellent tutorial on coordination chemistry complete with 3-D interactive Chime models.
• The Organometallic HyperTextBook is your on-line introduction to the topic.

Interesting Places to Visit

• The Nobel Foundation details the people, history and chemistry behind the prizes (also notice that Economics is NOT a true Nobel prize). MIT has a great interactive archive version which includes links to the winners' web pages and the ever-popular IgNobel prizes.
• Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. has interesting info about some chemicals and processes that are made using organometallic catalysts.
• The Indiana Molecular Structure Center has all sorts of cool molecule structures and some really nice crystallography and educational materials.
• Chemistry majors are encouraged to attend Departmental seminars.