Chemistry Resources

Funding sources

Listed here are some fellowship opportunities of interest to those in graduate programs. 

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program - http://www.nsfgrfp.org/
• National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship - http://ndseg.asee.org/
• Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship - http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellowships/application.aspx
• U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program - http://scgf.orau.gov/
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - STAR Graduate Fellowships in Environmental Studies - http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2013/2013_star_gradfellow.html 

Online tools

• CAS Source Index (CASSI) http://cassi.cas.org/ -- searchable list of all journal abbreviations
• ExPASy - http://us.expasy.org/
• Sigma-Aldrich Nomograph - http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/solvents/learning-center/nomograph.html

Web texts useful for lab chemists

• Purification of Laboratory Chemicals (Armarego and Chai; Elsevier). Available as an e-book for those with access.
• e-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (Wiley). Available online.
• Prudent Practices in the Laboratory (NRC; NIH). Available online from NIH.

Databases/Literature

• ChemFeeds - http://www.chemfeeds.com/ - Concise portal to graphical abstracts of major chem. journals
• SDBS - http://riodb01.ibase.aist.go.jp/sdbs/cgi-bin/cre_index.cgi?lang=eng
• Reaxys - http://www.reaxys.com/
• SciFinder - http://scifinder.cas.org/
• PubMed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Educational/Reference

• Intermediate Organic Chemistry (free online course from UIUC via Coursera) - https://www.coursera.org/course/orgchem2a
• Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry - http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/papers.html
• Organic Chemistry Portal - http://www.organic-chemistry.org/
• Not Voodoo (Rochester) - http://chem.chem.rochester.edu/~nvd/
• Name-Reaction (it's what it sounds like - nice interface) - http://www.name-reaction.com/
• NMR solvent charts
• Gottlieb, H. E.; Kotlyar, V.; Nudelman, A. “NMR Chemical Shifts of Common Laboratory Solvents as Trace Impurities” J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 7512-7515.
• Fulmer, G. R.; Miller, A. J. M.; Sherden, N. H.; Gottlieb, H. E.; Nudelman, A.; Stoltz, B. M.; Bercaw, J. E.; Goldberg, K. I. “NMR Chemical Shifts of Trace Impurities: Common Laboratory Solvents, Organics, and Gases in Deuterated Solvents Relevant to the Organometallic Chemist” Organometallics 2010, 29, 2176-2179.

Free chemistry software

Not everyone can afford ChemDraw! Here are some  free things.

• SpinWorks - http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wolowiec/spinworks/index.html -- free NMR plotting software
• ChemSketch - http://www.acdlabs.com/resources/freeware/chemsketch/ -- chemical drawing software