Mary O'Sullivan - Useful Links
JOURNALS
Organic Syntheses
http://www.orgsyn.org/
A free access source of synthetic organic methods
SOCIETIES AND AFFILIATIONS
Western New York section of the American Chemical Society
http://membership.acs.org/W/WNY/
American Chemical Society
Student Affiliates of the ACS at Canisius College
ORGANIC SPECTROSCOPY
1. NIST WebBook
The National Institute of Standards and Technology WebBook has IR, mass and UV/Vis spectra of thousands of compounds (as well as thermochemical data useful for P-Chem).
http://webbook.nist.gov/
2. Spectral Database for Organic Compounds, SDBS
Organized by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan) has IR spectra, mass spectra and 1H and 13C NMR spectra for approximately 30,000 different compounds.
http://riodb01.ibase.aist.go.jp/sdbs/cgi-bin/cre_index.cgi?lang=eng
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
1. Symyx/MDL Home Page
From here you can download ISIS Draw, a good program for drawing structures of compounds.
http://www.mdli.com/downloads/
2. Visualization of the 3D structures of proteins and other macromolecules
From here you can download RasMol is a versatile program that allows you to look at molecules in 3-D. Pages maintained by Eric Martz (University of Massachusetts).
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/top5.htm
3. Protein Data Bank
The x-ray crystal structures of thousands of proteins are stored here. These structures can be viewed and downloaded. Maintained by the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (Rutgers University)
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do
4. WEB-sters’ Organic Chemistry
A continually updated site listing huge numbers of sources of free chemistry software and web pages of interest to organic chemistry. Maintained by Nick Turro (Columbia University) and Ron Rusay (Diablo Valley College/UC Berkeley).
http://chemconnections.llnl.gov/Websters/
5. The Chemistry section of the WWW Virtual Library with many Chemistry related URLs (maintained by the University of Liverpool).
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html
6. Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide
Links to some very useful sites, has all the links in a user-friendly index. Well worth a look (maintianed by Koen Van Aken).
http://www.organicworldwide.net/