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Safety, SOPs & Resources
The Safety Net: Miller's and Tonk's excellent collection of standard operating procedures (SOPs) focusing on safety in an (in-)organic and organometallic laboratory. Includes as well operating procedures for glove boxes, Schlenk techniques, lecture bottles, expectations/suggestions for a succesful PhD & postdoc, cleaning, hazardous waste, laboratory notebooks, etc...
Permeability of Gloves (German)
C&EN Safety Letters: Safety notes on "dangerous" synthetic procedures.
Toxicity of Metal Compounds: 3d vs. 4d vs. 5d
Torralba's 10 rules for a "successful" PhD
Maestre's 10 rules for a healthy laboratory environment
The Inorganic Reaction Workup: Miller's standard inorganic reaction workup; includes detailed discussion on the choice of solvents (elutropic series)
Not Voodoo: Tips and Tricks for the synthetic chemist focusing on organic chemistry. Many useful "How-To's" and "How-Not-To's" and also safety-relevant information.
Schlenk Line Survival Guide: How to use a Schlenk Line.
Burger's and Bercaw's Schlenk Line guide
Virtual Lab: Stalke's videos on basic and advanced laboratory techniques with a focus on work with air-sensitive compounds (in German).
How to Make a Carbene and Free Organic Radical (Video & Protocol)
Chemical Redox Agents for Organometallic Chemistry
Practical Beginner's Guide to Cyclic Voltammetry
"Review of Reviews" on Carbenes and Carbene Ligands
Mayr's Reactivity Scales of Electrophiles and Nucleophiles
Organic Chemistry Net: Name Reactions, Mechanisms
Reaction Flash: Excellent App to practice Name Reactions
NIST Chemistry Webbook: Reference for Chemical Data
NIST Physical Reference Data: Reference for Physical Data
SDBS: Spectral Data Base for Organic Compounds
NMR Shifts online (taken from OM & JOC), NMR Shifts (OPRD), NMR Shifts (OM), NMR Shifts (JOC), Hetero-NMR, NMR (19F)
Zipse's Computational Chemistry Course: Vast collection and discussion of inputs for common computational tasks (mainly Gaussian; also ORCA, Molpro). Collection of key literature.
ORCA Forum: Freeware after registration; provides also workshop material, etc.
NBO (commercial)
Chemcraft: GUI (temporary freeware)
Avogadro: GUI (freeware)
IBOView: High-Quality Rendering, IBOs (freeware)
CylView: Visualizing Transition States, etc. (freeware)
Multiwfn: Electronic Wavefunction Analysis (freeware)
OpenBabel: File Format Interconversion (freeware)
Basis Set Exchange: Basis Sets
Computational Chemistry List: General Forum
Barriers vs. Reaction Time vs. Reaction Temperature
Barriers vs. Selectivity vs. Reaction Temperature
Barriers vs. Selectivity vs. Reaction Temperature
Harvey's, Himo's, Perrin's & Maseras' discussion of barrierless reactions and entropy in solution
The following links are useful to complement the courses and seminars, but not to substitute the recommended text books!
Orbitron Gallery: Gallery of Atomic Orbitals
Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry: Constructing MO Diagrams (Videos)
UC Irvine: Inorganic Chemistry Courses 107 (also available on YouTube)
Klüfer's coordination chemistry course (concise & German)
Inorganic Chemistry course University of Freiburg (fairly detailed & German)
Reciprocal Net: Guide & Exercises to Determining the Point Group of a Molecule
Organometallic HyperTextBook: Organometallics in a Nutshell
Reaction Flash: Excellent App to practice Name Reactions
ChemInfoGraphics: Collection of excellent chemical infographics
Ionic Viper: Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource (directed at teachers, yet also of interest for students)
Journal of Chemical Education: Concise & comprehensible articles on virtually any topic of (chemical) interest (directed at teachers, yet also of interest for students)
Chemical Education Xchange: Learning resources and forums, videos (directed at teachers, yet also of interest for students)
Waterman and Heemstra's CURE model (RCSA): Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience (for teachers)
Real Organic Chemistry: Cao's (supported by RCSC) Organic Chemistry Practice Problems (Introductory Level)