Lecture Sites

Electron-Pushing Review

  1. Guidelines, Hans Reich (University of Wisconsin)

Periodic Tables

  1. Metals, Nonmetals, Metalloids
  2. Table with Masses
  3. Top Portion
  4. Electronegativity
  5. Good Collection of Periodic Tables

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy

  1. Ethyl Acetate Proton NMR Spectrum
  2. Electromagnetic Radiation
  3. Ethanol Proton NMR Spectrum (low field)
  4. Ethanol Proton NMR Spectrum (high field)
  5. Simple Spin-Spin Splitting Patterns
  6. Proton Chemical Shifts
  7. C-13 Chemical Shifts
  8. Chemical Shift Charts (Proton and C-13) Michigan State
  9. Proton Chemical Shifts (Half-Black Chart)
  10. C-13 Chemical Shift Table and Examples (Chemguide)
  11. Chemical Shift in PPM of the Field
  12. 700 MHz NMR Instrument
  13. 900 MHz NMR Instrument
  14. 1991 Nobel Prize / FT-NMR / 2D-NMR

Drugs - Examples

  1. C&E News: The Top 50 Drugs of 2014

Nomenclature

  1. Functional Group Priority

Aldehydes and Ketones

  1. Glucose (Hemiacetal)
  2. Sucrose (Acetals)
  3. Dean-Stark Trap
  4. A 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazone
  5. Tollens' (Silver Mirror) Test

Carboxylic Acids

  1. Table of pKa's
  2. Diazomethane Preparation

Flavor Chemistry (Many esters)

  1. Links to Flavor and Fragrance Information Sites
  2. Aroma Compounds
  3. Unlocking the Secrets of Taste

Beta-lactam Antibiotics

  1. Penicillins and Cephalpsporins

-78 C

  1. Dry Ice Acetone Bath

Mass Spectrometry

  1. Mass Spectrometry - Instrumentation
  2. A History of Mass Spectrometry
  3. Photographs of Mass Spectrometers
  4. A High-resolution Mass Spectrometer
  5. Mass spectrum of 2-methylbutane
  6. Mass spectrum of 1-bromopropane
  7. High-Resolution MS Example (see Figure 7)

Carbonyl Condensation Reactions

  1. Aldol Reaction
  2. Claisen Condensation
  3. Name Reactions
  4. Another Name Reactions Site (Shorter List)

Steroids

  1. Cholesterol and other Steroids
  2. Robinson Annulation
  3. Other early steroid chemists

Dienes

  1. Butadiene p-Orbitals
  2. Butadiene π-MOs
  3. Diels-Alder Reaction: Frontier MOs

UV-Vis Spectroscopy

  1. Electromagnetic Radiation
  2. UV-Visible Spectrum (Binding Titration)
  3. UV-Vis Instrumentation
  4. UV-Vis Video
  5. Lycopene and β-Carotene

Benzene and Aromaticity

  1. August Kekule
  2. Benzene Overlap of p-Orbitals
  3. Benzene Molecular Orbitals
  4. Amino Acids
  5. DNA and RNA Nucleotides
  6. New Aromatic Ring with 50 π-Electrons
  7. C60-Fullerene
  8. C60-Fullerene (Rotating)
  9. C60-Fullerene Synthesis
  10. Graphene - 2010 Nobel Prize
  11. Graphene (Ball & Stick Model)
  12. And now there's graphyne

Chemical Structure Drawing Programs

  1. ChemSketch Windows/Linux - Free version (see page bottom)
  2. Chemtool - Linux/Unix - Free
  3. JChemPaint - Windows/Linux/Unix - Free
  4. Xdrawchem - Linux, Unix, MacOSX, Windows - Free
  5. Chem 4-D - Windows, Mac (Student Pricing)
  6. BKChem - Linux (Free)
  7. ChemDraw - Free for Rutgers Students (but must renew license each year)
  8. ChemDoodle - Windows, Mac, Linux (ca. $60). Also free for RU students.
  9. Avogadro - Molecule Builder for Computational Chemistry (Free)

Biochemical Quinones

  1. Mitochondria
  2. Coenzyme Q and the Electron Transport Chain
  3. Electron Transport Chain Animation
  4. Electron Transport Chain (4 Videos)

Alkaloids

  1. Alkaloid Examples
  2. Poison-dart frogs
  3. Alkaloid History

Nitrosamines

  1. Nitrosamines and Cancer
  2. Tobacco and Nitrosamines
  3. Food Preservatives

Synthesis of Natural Products/Total Synthesis

  1. Total Synthesis: Definition
  2. The Art and Science of Total Synthesis (Angew. Chem. 2000, 39, 44-1222)
  3. Total Synthesis Examples
  4. Total Synthesis Examples with Explanations

Catalytic C-C Bond Forming Reactions

  1. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005: Alkene Metathesis
  2. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010: Pd-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions
  3. Sonogashira Coupling (see links to pharmaceuticals)
  4. Practical Overview of Several Pd Coupling Reactions

Polymers

  1. Recycling Symbols and Polymer Structures
  2. Polymer Examples (page down)
  3. Challenger Disaster - Polymer Problem
  4. Feynman O-Ring Demo