The official chemistry information, links and references thread!

[RyanJ]

Hi everyone!

 

I have talked with woelen about this and he thinks its a good idea so here goes.

 

This thread is for chemistry links and information that could be useful to other people. Books and useful information are also welcome.

 

Links from the forums:

 

• Reference:

  
  

• Collecting elements - Lots of information about buying and collecting elements.
  
• Hazardous Materials and Synths - Always read before posting something potentially dangerous.
  
• The periodic table - Lots of periodic table links.
  
• A latex tutorial - A lot of info on how to use Latex in the SFN forum software, nice for formulas, equations and so on.
   
   
  

• Making Things / Experiments:

  
  

• Making hydrochloric acid - How to make hydrochloric acid.
  
• Phosphorus extraction - How to extract phosphorus.
  
• Fluorine - Lots of information about fluorine.
  
• Hydrogen peroxide - Concentrating hydrogen peroxide.
  
• Making nitric acid - An interesting discussion about making nitric acid.
  
• Aluminium powder - How to make aluminium powder at home.
  
• Be very careful with old potassium - A warning about old potassium.
  
• Iodine "tincture" - Seperating iodine from iodine tincture.
  
• Bromine - Lots of information about bromine.
  
• Selenium allotropes - All about selenium allotropes.
  
• Making Sodium Iodide - Ideas for making sodium iodide.
  
• Tin extraction - Ideas for extracting tin.
  
• Making sulphuric acid - An interesting discussion about making sulphuric acid.
  
• Purple gold - How to make purple gold!
  
• A simply shocking source of sodium metal - An amazing source of pure sodium metal.
  
• Making dimanganese heptoxide - Experiment with the extremely sensitive Mn2O7
  
• Interesting Synths - Some interesting synths, nothing very dangerous.
   
   
  

• Interesting threads:

  
   
  

• Strongest possible acid - An interesting discussion about the strongest possible acid.
  
• PyroChemistry - PyroChemistry discussion #1.
  
• Collecting elements - An interesting discussion thread about collecting elements.
  
• Thermite - A big discussion thread about thermites.
  
• Bromine is too sweet - An interesting discussion about bromine.
  
• Inert metals - A discussion about the inert metals (ends up in a debate!).
  
• The king of the elements - A debate about which element is the best.
  
• Good and bad chemical smells - A collection of good / bad smelling chemicals - add your own!
  
• Glass is a fluid - Is glass a liquid or a solid?
  
• Strongest acid known - An interesting discussion about the strongest acid known.
  
• Strongest oxidiation & reducing agents - An interesting discussion about the strongest oxidiation & reducing agents known.
  
• Official pyrotechnics thread - PyroChemistry discussion #2.
  
• Chemicals with funny names - Very funny!
  
• What is the most indestructible solid known to man? - An interesting debate and still do conclusion!
  

 

 

General links:

 

1. Wikipedia chemistry section - Information and more information... what more can I say?
   
2. IUPAC nomenclature - The standards for naming compounds, ions and just about everything else in chemistry.
   
3. The chemistry archive - Links to lots of sites... very useful.
   
4. Writing SMILES - Very useful for organic chemistry, makes writing structures simple.
   
5. Woelen's site - Always useful for reference and looking up experiments.
   
6. General chemistry stuff - Useful ifnroamtion and articles, some interesting things to read.
   
7. Compound information lookup - Very useful for research.
   
8. Chemistry guide - Brilliant resource for learning about chemistry.
   
9. Functional group reactions - Very useful quick reference resource.
   
10. Chemical glossary - Another useful lookup resource.
    
11. Chemistry books online - Another great idea from Wikibooks.
    
12. MSDS data sheet lookup - Great safety information (Invaluable).
    
13. Household products database - Always interesting to know what things contain!
    
14. Table of nuclides - Great resource for isotope research.
    
15. Chemdex - Lots of links and information.
    
16. Chemistry articles - Always an interesting read.
    
17. Science madness: online books - More books online!
    
18. About chemistry - Great online reference.
    
19. General chemistry online - A great online tutorial.
    
20. Chemistry coach - Another great online tutorial.
    
21. Water - All you ever wanted to know about water and more!
    
22. Flash based periodic table - a very interesting and unique way to display the perodic table.
    
23. Chemical profiles - Great for chemical research with information on lots of compounds.
    
24. Webqc's info on elements - a nice summary of properties of elements, which links to individual articles about the elements.
    

 

 

Useful Books:

1. CRC Handbook of chemistry and physics
   
2. Chemistry of the elements
   
3. Organic chemistry
   
4. Inorganic chemistry second edition
   
5. Inorganic chemistry by Shrier & Atkins
   
6. Chemistry third edition
   
7. General Chemistry
   

 

Software:

1. ChemSketch 8.0 - Drawing molecules, free.
   
2. XDrawChem 1.9.9 - Drawing molecules, free.
   
3. ChemDraw 10.0 - Drawing molecules, paid.
   
4. PubChem online molecule editor - Drawing molecules, online.
   

 

 

Cheers and thanks for contributing!

 

Ryan Jones

[RyanJ]

Hi everyone!

 

Please post all contributions you have here so a moderator can add them to the first post which is locked to keep it clean.

 

Also, please make shure that any links and information complies with the Hazardous Materials and Synths rules or it will not be added and you will probably get a warning.

 

Thanks for your contributions!

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

[ajitha]

hi how can i look into the chemistry latex tutorial. because iam unable to see any latex code for chemistry in this site.thanks.:

[ChemSiddiqui]

Hi,

 

I request the moderator to sticky this post.

 

There is a free software I recently downloaded about sketching formulae of different compounds. I thought I'd share this with others is anyone is interested. You have to register first to download it. Registration is free. Here's the link:

 

http://acdlabs.com/download/chemsk.html

 

 

Good day!

 

Well, I have decided to add links to all the websites I can find relating to the structure of molecules. Here is this one I found, very useful:

 

http://www.3dchem.com/

 

If anyone else also have any links, would they care to add them here as well?!

[SFNfan#1]

^^Great Link on the bottom!

[zombieSquirrel]

Here's a site http://www.chemistrylecturenotes.com/. I don't think you have it. The ChemTutor doesn't seem to work though, at least not for me.

[RyanJ]

Please add Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com) to the main post too as it can do all sorts of useful chemistry calculations (I'll post a thread for that later).

[seouldavid]

I think the following site is very useful in that it provides a comprehensive collection of audio/video lectures in chemistry and chemical engineering.

 

http://www.infocobuild.com/education/audio-video-courses/chemistry/chemistry-and-chemical-engineering.html

[adianadiadi]

You may add an upcoming new site http://www.adichemadi.com/ also to this list.

[bondona567]

It is genuine which the pursuing website is very useful beneath that this can provides a total database of noise/film lectures on chemistry and also chemical engineering.

[krash661]

this is interesting.

 

15 Awesome Chemistry Experiments

 

http://www.trueactivist.com/15-awesome-chemistry-gifs/

[Iota]

Chemistry problems on all topics, complete with their worked solutions. Great practice for exams and general learning:

 

http://chemistry.about.com/od/workedchemistryproblems/a/workedproblems.htm

[Iota]

http://accelrys.com/products/informatics/cheminformatics/draw/

 

Molecule drawing software we use at uni.

[MissMercury]

On 3/28/2006 at 1:04 PM, RyanJ said:

Hi everyone!

 

I have talked with woelen about this and he thinks its a good idea so here goes.

 

This thread is for chemistry links and information that could be useful to other people. Books and useful information are also welcome.

...

Cheers and thanks for contributing!

 

Ryan Jones

Brilliant, thank you for this 

[Markopo]

This post, with all these links, is excellent.
Everything is so organized, clear, Great first impression to a new subscriber like me.

Thanks! 

Edit - most of the links are not working

Edited June 7, 2020 by Markopo

[hypervalent_iodine]

It is a 14 year old thread, so it’s not totally surprising most of the links no longer work.

[Mehboob97]

Its a great idea to collect all the useful resource at one page. Appreciate it.

[kesaraP]

I found this thread is very interesting and helpful. I appreciate this very much. 

But most of or the references are not active today.

I like to add a link of my website to this tread. Learnbin contains articles explaining advanced concepts related to chemistry, polymer science, physics and many science related subjects. We update the website regularly with fresh contents. https://learnbin.net/category/chemistry/

 

[ScienceStyled]

What a great thread! A lot of fantastic resources. I would advise, though, to check the links because at least some of them are dead...