Chemistry Organizations:
-American Chemical Society (ACS)
-Division of Organic Chemistry (ACS)
-Division of Fluorine Chemistry (ACS)
-Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Chemistry Journals:
-List of Organic Chemistry Journals
Chemistry Search Engines:
Other Chemistry Sites:
-Organometallic Chemistry Hypertextbook
-Not Voodoo
-Organic reactions
-Organic Chemistry Portal
Equipment / Instrumentation:
Members of the Munoz PowerCat® Lab have access to the following:
-Kessil PR160L Lamps (multiple sets of monochromatic Blue LED lamps with a linear reflector design by Kessil® – 370nm, 390nm, 427nm, 440nm, 456nm, 467nm, 525nm)
-GC-MS-FID with autosampler (MS and FID detector in a single instrument)
-Hybrid UHPLC-SFC with autosampler and UV-PDA detector and chiral columns (UHPLC and Supercritical Fluid Chromatography in one single instrument)
-MBraun 1 double glovebox with freezer (-40oC) and 1 single glovebox
-Rotovaps (three)
-Vacuum Ovens (1 large, 1 medium)
-Cryocoolers (several -40oC to -10oC)
-Large circulating heating oil bath
-Large jacketed reactor (5-liter)
-Overhead stirrers (several)
-Two large chemical refrigerators (4-8oC) and one freezer (-40oC)
-Teledyne-Isco automated flash column chromatography
-Microwave Reactor (for microwave-assisted synthesis)
-Flow Reactor (for developing of reactions under flow conditions)
Useful Chemical Data:
-Bordwell pKa table
-BDE (bond dissociation energy) table
-Common Solvents: Properties
Prof. Herbert Mayr’s
Electrophilicity and
Nucleophilicity Scales:
-Prof. Herbert Mayr Home
-Nucleophilicity Scale 1,
-Scale 2
-Nucleophilicity Scale for Carbanions and Organocatalytic Reactions
NMR Spectroscopy and Lists of Chemical Shifts:
-¹H NMR shifts , ¹³C NMR shifts
-¹9Fluorine NMR Chemical Shifts and Fluorine NMR J-values
-³¹P NMR chemical shifts and Coupling Constants
-AIST Japan-NMR Database
Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry:
-Pauling Electronegativities
-Synthons for C-C Bond Formation
-Common Nucleophiles and Electrophiles
-Organolithium Reagents
-Common Reactive Intermediates
-Reduction and Oxidation
-Organometallic Chemistry Fundamentals
DEPARTMENTAL INSTRUMENTATION AND CORE FACILITIES:
-Varian 400MHZ
-Bruker 600MHZ NMR and MRI
-Varian 500MHZ NMR with a cryoprobe
–Glass Shop (On-site Scientific glassblowing by world-renowned Jim Hodgson)
-Chemistry Storeroom (on-site chemistry supplies)
-Electronic Shop (on-site repair & troubleshoot of electronic devices, computers, etc)
-Machine Shop (fully equipped shop; machine, fabricate and design simple to complex parts)