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CHEMISTRY RESOURCES

Abbreviations & Constants

Current Awareness Tools

Departments

Education

Employment & Career Resources

Environmental and Green Chemistry

Organometallic Chemistry

Periodic Table

Polymer Chemistry

Reference

Spectra & Spectroscopy

Tutorials & User Guides

Abbreviations and Constants

Acronym and Abbreviations Database - a database of acronyms used in chemistry and spectroscopy
Acronym Database
CAS Standard Abbreviations and Acronyms - a list of common acronyms and abbreviations used in CAS publications
Core journals covered in CAplus - a list of complete and abbreviated core journal titles covered in CAS
NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty - a searchable list of physical constants

Associations

Catalogs

ChemACX Net - a collection of catalogs from major suppliers, searchable by name, structure or formula
Chemical Buyers Directory (ChemExpo) - search for product suppliers through this virtual trade show
Fisher Chemical Catalog
Sigma-Aldrich

Chemical Information

Chemical Safety

CHEMFATE - searchable chemical database providing toxicology and properties of chemicals
Hazardous Substances Data Bank - searchable database of human and animal toxicity and safety information for potentially hazardous chemicals
NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards - industrial hygiene information on several chemical classes
TOXNET - a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas

Crystallography

BMCD Crystallization Database - a database of thousands of crystal entries from biological macromolecules. Includes the NASA Protein Crystal Growth Archive
CrystaLinks - links to structure and sequence databases as well as other crystallography tools
Crystallography Open Database
International Union of Crystallography
Molecules R Us - an interface for searching molecular structure data contained in the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Predicted Crystallography Open Database
RSCB Protein Data Bank (PDB) - a repository of 3-D biological macromolecular structure data

Current Awareness Tools

BioMail
Ingenta
PubMed - “Cubby” feature allows users to store searches
Web of Science

Departments

Education

ACS - Division of Chemical Education
CHEMED-L - chemical education listserv
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education
IUPAC - Committee on Teaching of Chemistry
National Science Foundation - education
Physical Setting - Chemistry Core Curriculum- NY State Dept. of Education
Student and Professional Chemistry Discussion (CHEMCHAT)

Secondary Education
The Catalyst
CHEM4KIDS
Division of Elementary, Secondary and Informal Education – National Science Foundation

Undergraduate
Division of Undergraduate Education – National Science Foundation
Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Graduate
Division of Graduate Education - National Science Foundation
Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences: Issues for the 21st Century: Report of a Workshop

Employment and Career Resources

American Chemical Society. Careers and Jobs
Careers and Jobs Centre
Chemistry - The Vital Element for your future
Chronicle Careers
Nature Jobs
Occupational Outlook Handbook
RSC - Careers in Chemistry and the Chemical Sciences
Science Careers - Job Search
Spectroscopy Now - Jobs database

Environmental and Green Chemistry

Grant Writing

History of Chemistry

Chemical Genealogy Database -a professional genealogy resource for chemists containing PhD mentor information for select chemists
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Classic Chemistry
From Alchemy to Chemistry: Five Hundred Years of Rare and Interesting Books
Internet History of Science Sourcebook
Selected Classic Papers from the History Chemistry
This Week in Chemical History

Metasites

Nuclear Chemistry

ACS Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology
The Living Textbook of Nuclear Chemistry - links to nuclear chemistry resources available on the Internet

Organic Chemistry

IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry
IUPAC - recommendations on Organic & Biochemical Nomenclature, Symbols & Terminology - a glossary of organic class names and other chemical terms
Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide - links to organic chemistry resources available on the Internet
Organic Electronic Flashcards - electronic flashcards containing examples of chemical reactions
Organic Syntheses - a searchable database of experimental methods for the synthesis of organic compounds

Organometallic Chemistry

FECS Division of Organometallic Chemistry
Organometallic HyperTextBook - a reference resource concentrating on organometallic research

Periodic Table

Polymer Chemistry

Glossary of Basic Terms in Polymer Science

Reference

ChemFinder - a chemical search engine providing access to chemical structures and physical properties for hundreds of thousands of chemicals
ChemIDplus - access to structure and nomenclature information for chemical substances and also includes links to biomedical resources from the National Library of Medicine as well as other Internet resources for the chemical of interest. (Requires Chime plug-in or ISIS/Draw to view structures)
ChemIDlite - search by name or registry number only. No plug-ins required
NCI-3D - information collected by the National Cancer Institute on almost 500,000 structures
NIST WebBook - access to thermochemical data, IR, UV, electronic, vibrational and mass spectra and thermophysical properties of thousands of chemical compounds

Spectra and Spectroscopy

Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds (SDBS)
KnowItAll Academic Edition - Draw 2D and 3D structures, search Sadtler Spectroscopy Handbooks, and perform IR and Raman functional group analyses. Requires software download. KnowItAll 3.0 will not work on Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME or NT4.0. There is no Mac version.
Molecular Spectral Databases
NIST Atomic Spectra Database - a searchable database of spectroscopic data displayed according to wavelengths or by energy levels
NMR Periodic Table
Online NMR dictionary
Spectra Online - a searchable database of IR, UV, NMR and MS spectra obtained for various chemical compounds. The spectra submitted are not reviewed and are displayed in the form they were received
Spectroscopy Now – links to other spectroscopy sites and contains news and employment information

Tutorials and User Guides

Cambridge Structural Database - user’s guide
Chemical Information Sources (Major Tools or Databases) - information on how to use Chemical Abstracts and Beilstein
Crossfire (Beilstein/Gmelin)
- General Guide
- Structure Searching
Houben-Weyl
- Introduction and Guide
- Guide
SciFinder- General Guide
Web of Science

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