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Selected Internet Resources on Chemistry

General Sites E-books Sub-disciplines:
Analytical
Atmospheric
Environmental
Inorganic
Organic
Reference Tools Professional Societies Discussion Groups :
Newsgroups Mailing Lists
 

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DOE Information Bridge (http://www.osti.gov/bridge/)
This U.S. Dept. of Energy site provides full-text research and development reports in topics such as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science andrenewable energy.
Laboratory Survival Manual (http://keats.admin.virginia.edu/lsm/home.html )
An online manual of safe laboratory practices from the office of Environmental Health and Safety at the University of Virginia
Latinamerican chemistry net (http://www.relaq.mx/RLQ/welcome_eng.html)
An interface to chemistry in Mexico and Central and South America, sponsored by the Organization of the American States.
Links for Chemists (http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html )
This is the Chemistry Section of the WWW Virtual Library. Links for Chemists is an index of over 7,850 chemistry resources on the web, created by the University of Liverpool, Department of Chemistry.
E-Print Network: Subject Pathway: Chemistry (http://www.osti.gov/eprints/pathways/chemistry.shtml)
This site, provided by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, provides links to sites that contain preprint information. A preprint is a manuscript that has not yet been published in a journal.
Virtual laboratory ( http://neon.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/openpage.html)
Four tutorials, at the undergraduate level, from Oxford University. Requires QuickTime, Shockwave, Real RV, and Live 3D plug-in programs.

 

Reference Tools top of page

Chemfinder.com ( http://www.chemfinder.com/)
Searchable by chemical name, CAS number, molecular formula, or molecular weights.
U.S. Patents (http://www.uspto.gov/)
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office provides access to full-text patent databases.
Material Safety Data Sheets (http://msds.ehs.cornell.edu/msdssrch.asp )
Searchable database of ~250,000 material safety data sheets.
Radiocarbon WEB-info (http://www.C14dating.com)
Information on the theory and practice of radiocarbon dating.
Nuclear Data Dissemination Home Page (http://ie.lbl.gov/toi.htm)
Data about isotopes and related information.
TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network) (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/)
A collection of information on the effects of drugs and other chemicals
Web Elements Periodic Table (http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/index.html

 

Sub-Disciplines top of page

Analytical
Base Peak Directory (Wiley) (http://base-peak.wiley.com/links/)
Links to mass spectrometry websites and resources.

Atmospheric
National Center for Atmospheric Research (http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/)
Among the resources available on this page are films on climate and weather, instructional material on global climate change, and slide images of weather-related topics, including instrumentation. They have also put up many of their technical publications.

Environmental
Envirofacts (http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html)
Provides access to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency environmental data. Among the databases available are the Aerometric Information Retrieval System, the Permit Compliance System, and the Toxics Release Inventory System.
Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia (http://www1.nature.nps.gov/toxic/index.html)
From the U.S. National Park Service
UNEP Chemicals (http://www.chem.unep.ch/irptc/)
Provided by the United Nations Environment Programme. Reports and studies.

Inorganic
Physical Chemistry Education Resource Center(http://www.monmouth.edu/~tzielins/index.html)
This page was developed by Dr. Theresa Julia Zielinski, a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Medical Technology and Physics at Monmouth University.

Organic
Organic Name Reactions (http://www.monomerchem.com/display4.html)
Provided by MonomerChem Inc., this site provides diagrams of named reactions.
IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemicals (http://www.acdlabs.com/iupac/nomenclature/)
Rules for naming or identiying chemical species.
Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide (http://www.organicworldwide.net)
Resource guide for synthetec organic chemists.

 

Discussion Groups top of page

Newsgroups
Google provides access to the following chemistry newsgroups:
sci.chem.analytical, sci.chem.electrochem.battery, sci.chem.labware, sci.chem.organic.synthesis, sci.chem.organomet
http://groups.google.com

Mailing Lists
A substantial list of chemistry-oriented mailing lists is available at http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Science/Chemistry


 

E-books top of page

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (http://www.hbcpnetbase.com/)
The online version of the well-known handbook contains conversion factors, constants and properties of organic and inorganic substances.
Access limited to UNLV users.
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/ueic)
Access limited to UNLV users.

 

Professional Societies top of page

American Chemical Society( http://www.acs.org/)
Royal Society of Chemistry (http://www.rsc.org/)
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) (http://www.setac.org/)