PHSC 300 SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

ASSIGNMENT 8: CHEMISTRY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

There are many chemistry resources available on the internet. Some include electronic publicatons, others are demos of software, or freeware or shareware. Some of the currently working links are listed below:

An Example of a Publication:

Nature: http://www.nature.com - selected articles and news

Software:

Chemistry Drawing Software

ACD/Labs: http://www.acdlabs.com, the providers of ChemSketch, a chemical drawing program (the second latest version is made available free to students and educators), and you can obtain 30 day demos of simulation programs such as HNMR, CNMR, Log P, IUPAC Nomenclature, Boiling Point, etc. Occasionally some of these programs may be run online at the site.
Cambridge Scientific: This vendor has available a dedicated server called the ChemFinder Web Server to be used online about specific comounds. The address is http://chemfinder.camsoft.com. Cambridge Scientific are the makers of the ChemDraw chemical strucutre drawing program.
BioRad (now marketers of former Softshell products such as ChemWindows and ChemIntosh: http://www.chemwindow.com/ - Formerly this site had a nice selction of free donwloads, currently there are none. They do have very good drawing software for both chemical structures and chemical and chemical engineering apparati.
IsisDraw: http://www.mdli.com, a free evaluation copy is available.
ChemVis: http://www2.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/projects/ChemVis/projects.html, a series of Java based drawing and visualization programs

Molecular Modeling

Wavefunction, Inc.: http://wavefun.com - Vendor of molecular modeling programs for PC, MAC and LINUX systems. Occasionally online demos of new products are available.
ArgusLab: http://www.planaria-software.com, A full featured molecular modeling suite available to educators and students for free.

Graphing Programs

MathGV: http://www.mathgv.com/, a freeware graphing program
Create-A-Graph: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx, Online site for creating graphs, requires Flash Media player.
GraphCalc: http://www.graphcalc.com/, free 2D-3D graphing software.

WinPlot: http://spot.pcc.edu/~ssimonds/winplot/, Windows-based plotting program.

Indices

Virtual Chemistry Library: http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html - a "global" collection of sites with world wide listings about chemistry related sites.
General Information: http://yahoo.com/Science/Chemistry/ This general information site about chemistry is sometimes useful. You should also check out the other indices listed here.
A shorter list of chemistry resources is listed at http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html, the former home of the Virtual Library of Chemistry
Trinity University Cheminformatics Site: hackberry.chem.trinity.edu, a collection of links to chemistry information.
ChemDex: Sheffield University's venerable site of chemistry related links is available at http://www.chemdex.org.

Other:

Periodic Table - This is just one of several periodic table sites available: it may be found at http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic.

PROBLEMS

Find a free chemical drawing program. Return the address. You may want to download this program to your own computer.
What are the atricles are currently at the online site for Nature magazine?
Find the address for some free useful chemistry clipart. You might want to download these also. (The number of sites varies.)
Find at least two online graphing pages that will allow you to plot your own data. Provide the URLs to the pages.
Find at least two free graphing programs which may be downloaded to your own computer, for at least free trials (some are just plain free). Provdie URLs to the pages where these may be downloaded from.
Explore!!!