Resources

Chemistry Department Resources

• UCI Chemistry home page
• Chemistry Undergraduate Office
• Free Chemistry Department Tutoring
• LARC Tutoring
• Course mailing list archives
• Campus computing labs

Properties of Chemicals

• Sigma-Aldrich — A chemical supply company
• Oxford’s MSDS
• emolecules
• CSC ChemFinder
• NIST Physical reference data
• NIST Chemistry Webbook

Chemdoodle
The organic chemical drawing software ChemDoodle (http://www.chemdoodle.com/) is available to UCI students at no cost. To get your copy, download the software from from http://www.chemdoodle.com/free-trial/ and then register your @uci.edu e-mail address at http://www.chemdoodle.com/site-license to obtain an activation code that provides you with a fully functional version of the software. You must register from a UCI email address.

Organic chemistry resources

• Periodic Table
• Chemicool
• Chemistry Guide
• Ace Organic Chemistry

Spectroscopy

• UCLA WebSpectra — A useful site for NMR spectroscopy (and some IR), including an overview and practice problems of varying difficulty.
• SDBS Spectral Database
• Determining Splitting Patterns in Benzene Derivatives
• Wake Forest University ‘HNMR Interpretation tutorial
• Notre Dame Organic Structure Elucidation Workbook   http://www.nd.edu/~smithgrp/structure/workbook.html

Ochem Tests and Tutorials

• Interactive organic chemistry practice problems
• Exams from different universities
• UCLA virtual Office hours (exams and tutorials)

Life and College

• Why learn Ochem?
• Premeds and organic chemistry
• How to Email a Professor
• Is It a Degree or an Education That You Seek?

Just for fun

• Comic Book Periodic Table
• Photograph Periodic Table
• Nobel E-Museum
• Organic Chemistry Haiku
• What’s that stuff?  Chemistry of everyday products
• Organic Sodoku Puzzle
• Ask a Scientist  Interesting chemistry answers
• Reel Science  Movie Reviews by American Chemical Society
• Molecule of the Day
• Radioactive Orchestra
• Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements”