Useful Links

Contacting the PI

Joseph P. Konopelski
University 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 379
Phone: 831.459.4669

Analytical Resources

Spectral database of organic compounds - analytical data of simple compounds  
Sigma-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 data
E-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 students
Chem Know How - message board 
Stoltz Lab Forum - message board 


Freeware

Bio-Rad KnowItAll - for drawing chemical structures
ACD 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