We try to check these links periodically, but some of them may have disappeared or changed since our last check.
Specific Compounds
This list of links represents a few ways to find information on specific compounds.
- Welcome
to CambridgeSoft!
This is the online version of "Chemfinder" at Cambridge Software; it is possible to search for a specific compound here. - MSDS
One source of Material Safety Data Sheets from Envirocare International, Inc. - Hazardous
Substances data bank
Toxicology data file on the National Library of Medicine's Toxicology Network. - PDB WWW Home Page
PDB 3DBBrowser
These two addresses provide access to the Protein Data Bank, where one can find structures for a great many compounds of biological interest. - Integrated
Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds
This database provides spectral data, in particular, for a great many compounds. It includes IR, NMR, MS, Raman, and ESR spectra. It is provided by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. - WEB
ELEMENTS
This is a periodic table by Mark Winter at the University of Sheffield, England, which allows you to look at chemical, physical, nuclear, geological and biological information about the elements. Additional information includes reduction potentials,ionization enthalpies as well as electronic configurations.
Visualization Tools
This list of links represents ways to find information on useful visualization tools.
- UCB
Enhanced Rasmol
This page provides information about, and a place to download, an enhanced version of RasMol, a simple molecule viewer. - The
Protein Explorer Front Door
This page provides access to a PDB-file viewing program called Protein Explorer, which permits easy exploration of biopolymers. The program makes extensive use of the browser plugin "CHIME" or the Java program JMole
Pedagogy, books, journals and software
This list of links represents a few favorites.
- Chemical
Education Resource Shelf
A handy list of texts in all areas of Chemistry, and links to their publishers' home pages. - JCEOnline
TheChemical Educator
Two journals for chemical educators. - ACS Publications Division
Access to information about all the ACS journals, including current tables of contents. Note that Lawrence faculty and students have full text access to a number of the ACS journals, including back issues, through the library web page. - TheWhy Files
Some interesting questions and answers.
Affiliations
This list of links represents a few organizations to which department faculty members belong.
- Council on Undergraduate Research
- MACTLAC
- The Midstates Consortium for Math and Science (MCMS) , a consortium of 11 liberal arts colleges and two research universities. The Consortium’s goals are to promote effective collaboration among faculty at the member institutions, to improve undergraduate science and mathematics education, to assist collaborative research efforts of the undergraduate college faculty, and to support research efforts by undergraduate students at all the member institutions.
Other Links
- UW Department
of Chemistry
Our state's major research university. There's a good deal going on there in chemical education. - The American Chemical Society
- The Chemical Abstracts Home Page
- The
ACS Careers Site
The American Chemical sites above provide a great deal of information. The last of the three, in particular, is useful for students looking for information about employment opportunities in chemistry. JobSpectrum is a large employment, job-searching, and career information site for chemists, operated as a service of the ACS. - The
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Chemistry
Pointers to a lot of other pages. - CHEMDEX
A general resource with lots of connections to other sites.
