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.