Links
Here are some helpful links for those interested in Chemistry or Biochemistry. Thanks to Mr. Boudreaux for supplying these to us.
Organizations, Magazines and Journals
Miscellaneous Chemistry Resources
Organizations, Magazines and Journals
- American Chemical Society - National organization of chemists, biochemists, chemical engineers, and other chemistry-related professionals. Includes links to many of the most important scientific journals in the field of chemistry.
- Science (AAAS) - Published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science is one of the most prestigious journals in science.
- Scientific American - A good monthly magazine that covers lots of interesting topics in science. (Only selected contents from the magazine are available at the web site.)
- Natural History - A good monthly magazine that has lots of articles relating to biology, evolution, astronomy, and other things in the natural world. The monthly "Universe" column by Neil deGrasse Tyson is particularly good. (Only selected contents from the magazine are available at the web site.)
- Skeptical Inquirer - A monthly magazine for people with really inquiring minds.
- WebElements - A great online periodic table, with lots of information about each element, printable periodic tables, and periodic table applications for Windows, Mac, and Palm platforms.
- Visual Elements - A visually unique interpretation of the periodic table, with a lot of fascinating information about the elements.
- The Periodic Table of Comic Books - Exploring the connection between chemistry and comic books (yes, there really is one).
- Doctor Slime - The name says it all.
- Can Crush Demo with a Real Life Example - See a railroad tank tar crushed by steam!
- Science Is Fun in the Lab of Shakhashiri - Web page of Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; the master of chemical demonstrations.
- Delights of Chemistry - Web page of chemistry demonstrations at the University of Leeds
- RasMol - A great program for viewing 3D chemical structures in PDB format.
- RasMol and OpenRasMol - This page has a more recent version of the RasMol program.
- Chime - A great 3D structure viewing tool from MDL Information Systems, Inc.
- ChemFinder - An archive of structures, physical properties, and hazard information for chemicals, searchable by name (IUPAC or trivial), molecular formula, or molecular weight; from CambridgeSoft, makers of ChemDraw and Chem3D.
- Organic Compounds Database - A searchable archive of information about organic compounds.
- Chime Resources - Interesting molecular structures created for use with the Chime viewing program.
- Indiana University Molecular Structure Center - Lots of molecular structures from Indiana University.
- The Molecule of the Month - Links to information on interesting molecules at various universities and commercial sites.
- Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names - Information about molecules with weird names like moronic acid, curious chloride, traumatic acid, constipatic acid, betweenanenes, furfuryl furfurate, diurea, and lots more.
- ChemPen - Classic Organic Reactions - A large list of named organic reactions, from Acetoacetic Ester Condensation to Zinke-Suhl Reaction.
- DNA from the Beginning - A great tutorial on the basics of genetics.
- Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide - A collection of links to various organic chemistry resources.
- International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - Everything you ever wanted to know about naming organic compounds, but were afraid to ask.
Miscellaneous Chemistry Resources
- Chemistry animations and movies on the World Wide Web - Links to animations and movie files demonstrating chemistry concepts, reactions, and demonstrations from all over the world.
- Skunk Defensive Secretion - Everything you ever wanted to know about skunk spray and its chemistry.
- Science Jokes Archive - Exactly what it says: thousands of jokes relating to every imaginable field of science.
- Bad Science - Challenging false explanations of scientific phenomena that abound in popular opinion, newspapers, television, and the classroom.
- The Skeptic's Dictionary - An exhaustive on-line survey of "questionable therapies, eccentric beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous delusions" by Robert T. Carroll.
- The Talk.Origins Archive - A great archive of articles posted by contributors to the Talk.Origins newsgroup, presenting mainstream scientific responses to common creationist arguments.
- Bob Riggins's Page - A good selection of science essays, by R. J. Riggins. (The one entitled "Lessons NOT To Learn in School" is especially good.
- Froguts.com - A virtual dissection of a frog.
- Atomic Archive - A history of the science and politics behind the Manhattan Project.