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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...
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)
Toxicity of Metal Compounds: 3d vs. 4d vs. 5d
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.
C&EN Safety Letters: Safety notes on "dangerous" synthetic procedures.
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 (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
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)