Resources of Organic Chemistry

Dr. Zhiqing Yan
Department of Chemsitry and Biochemsitry, EIU

Nomenclature & Terminology

IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry
IUPAC Glossary of Class Names
How to name organic compounds using the IUPAC rules
Organic Nomenclature Rules and Problems
Short Summary of Organic Nomenclature
Acronyms
Searching Acronyms
Chemistry Dictionary

NMR

NMR Tutorial (Michigan State)
Chemical Shifts of NMR Solvent Residual
Proton Chemical Shifts and Carbon-13 Chemical Shifts (Michigan State)
Proton Chemical Shifts
Carbon-13 Chemical Shifts
¹H-¹H Coupling Constants
NMR Interpretation Practices
Advanced NMR (2nd year)
Hornak's page (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Reaction Mechanisms

Curved Arrows in Reaction Mechanisms
Animation of Carbocation Rearrangements
A Simple S_N2 reaction
A two-step S_N1 reaction
Pinacol Rearrangement
Electrophilic Addition to alkenes
Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution - Nitration
More Organic Reaction Mechanism Animations

Stereochemistry

Isomerism and Stereochemistry
Conformations and Stereochemistry
Stereochemistry practices
Stereochemistry practices (MasterOrgChem)

pKa's

Evans's pKa Table
Bordwell pKa Table
Williams' pKa Table

Graphic Tools

BIOVIA Draw
Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD)
Mercury of CCSD
ChemDraw

Spectral Databases

SDBS (Searchable)
NIST Chemistry Webbook (Searchable)

MIT OpenCourse - Organic Chemistry

Organic I SP05
Organic II FA06
Advanced Organic Chemistry SP07

Miscellanies

Drawing Resonance Forms(UCLA)
Curved Arrows Communicate Electron Flow/Movement
How to Draw Resonance Contributors
Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry (UCLA)
Khan Academy - Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry Data - ACS Division of Organic Chemistry

Columbia University - Intensive Organic Chemistry

Class Material

Problem Databases

Interactive IR problem set
UCLA WebSpectra (problems and keys)

The Ohio State University

E-Flash Cards