Useful Links
Contacting the PI
Joseph P. KonopelskiUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
1156 High St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Office: PSB 344
Phone: 831.459.4676
Email: joek@chemistry.ucsc.edu
Contacting the Lab
Grad Student Office / Lab: PSB 379Phone: 831.459.4669
Analytical Resources
Spectral database of organic compounds - analytical data of simple compoundsSigma-Aldrich - analytical data available for most commercially available compounds, MSDS
University of Cambridge optical rotation calculator
Journals & Literature Databases
JACS Journals - search JACS, JOC, Organic Letters, etc.El Sevier ScienceDirect - search Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, etc.
Google Scholar
Organic Syntheses - search for reliable procedures
RSC Journals - search Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkins Transactions, etc.
Thieme Connect - search Synthesis, Synlett, etc.
Web of Science
Wiley Interscience - search Angew. Chemie Int. Ed., European Journal of Organic Chemistry, etc.
Other Databases
Bordwell
pKa tables - extensive pKa
dataE-compound - database filled with compound information, mechanisms, and more
Oxford University chemical and safety information - MSDS and more
Synthetic Pages - user-added synthetic procedures
University of Edinburgh Azeotrope Databank - heterogenous and homogeneous
Techniques & Tips
Not Voodoo - tips and tricks from other grad studentsChem Know How - message board
Stoltz Lab Forum - message board
Freeware
Bio-Rad KnowItAll - for drawing chemical structuresACD ChemSketch - for drawing chemical structures
Brain Teasers
Princeton's Organic Mechanisms Club - organic chemistry exercises under "problems"Dave Evans' Challenging Problems in Chemistry and Chemical Biology - database of problems, keys available
Fukuyama's Group Page - problems sets from group meetings with keys
