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WRITING

Formatting Tips

ACS Style Guide

Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (IUPAC Red Book)

Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI)

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GENERAL CHEMISTRY

SciFinder

Chemistry Reference Resolver

Energy Converter

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SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY

Not Voodoo

Reaxys

The Schlenk Line Survival Guide

Glovebox Videos (Vacuum Atmospheres)

Inorganic Syntheses [volumes]

Organic Syntheses

Evans pKa Table

Purification of Laboratory Chemicals

Cooling Baths

Concentrations of Aqueous Acids and Bases

Solvent Miscibility Chart

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NMR SPECTROSCOPY

Hebrew University of Jerusalem NMR Facility (great general NMR resource)

University of Ottawa NMR Facility Blog (lots of information in the archives)

Spectral Database for Organic Compounds (SDBS)

Hans Reich's NMR Spectroscopy Course

A Glimpse Inside an NMR Spectrometer (high res pictures can be found at the bottom of the linked page)

 

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CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

SHELXL Instructions

Structure Access: Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)

Inorganic Chemistry Structural Database (ICSD)

Protein Data Bank (PDB)

Core CIF Dictionary: International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)

International Tables for Crystallography

Clickable Space Group Tables

Kevin Cowtan's Picture Book of Fourier Transforms

            (or jump straight to Animal Magic with the Fourier Duck and Fourier Cat)

Kevin Cowtan's Interactive Structure Factor Tutorial

Refinement of Disorder with SHELXL (a tutorial by Peter Müller, MIT)

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COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

Gaussian Users Reference

ORCA

Natural Bond Orbital (NBO)

MultiWFN

Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark DataBase

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CELL BIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY

BioNumbers - Database of Useful Biological Numbers

Cell Culture Guidelines

Cell Culture Media

Cell-Based Assays

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JOHNSTONE RESEARCH

Google Scholar

ResearchGate

ORCiD

UCSC Faculty Profile

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FOR FUN

xkcd

PhD comics

TOC ROFL

Garfield minus Garfield

Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years (this section is not all about silliness)

Prof. Andy Jupp's Cryptic Chemistry Crosswords (if you want to cry)

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