The following resources are available in
inorganic chemistry:
1. General Chemical Information
o CambridgeSoft maintains ChemFinder, a remarkably efficient Internet search
engine, which searches for information on specific compounds by name, formula,
CAS registry number, and molecular weight. Most of the hits are related to
toxic properties but the search engine turns up information that most tools such
as Yahoo miss.
2. General Survey
o The 80th anniversary issue of C&ENews
published on 8 September 2003 contains an informative set of essays on the
elements. The article, The
Periodic Table of the Elements, is now available at the ACS Web site. The
ACS also maintains its electronic periodic table which
has the desirable feature of providing plots of properties such as
electronegativity. This periodic table appears courtesy of W. H. Freeman Inc.,
publisher of Chemistry in the Community and CADRE design.
o Wikipedia,
the free Web encyclopedia, has useful entries for the chemical elements and
substances.
o WebElements, a very comprehensive periodical table, was
developed by Mark Winter at the
o The current values of the atomic weights of the elements
recommended by the IUPAC Commission on Atomic Weights is available at a
o Dr. Anna Cavinato and Dr.
David Camp at
o The periodic table produced by the Royal Society of
Chemistry is a highly visual presentation of chemical information. Information
is provided but a
o The Virtual
Chemistry Laboratory developed at
o The University of Nottingham has produced The Periodic Table of Videos, an
entertaining set of lectures for all elements in the periodic table. The site also includes lectures on
selected molecules such as the very fast death factor, the murder weapon in
Virginia Crosby’s novel The Fast Death Factor.
3. Non-transition metals
o Professor Martin Chaplin at
o Crystallographic data on zeolites are provided by the
WWW page of the International Zeolite
Association. Click on the ATLAS ikon to access the
list of structures and on the COLLECTION ikon to
access the list of powder patterns. The page also provides a glossary to the
IZA's classification system.
o M. Yoshida has prepared the Fullerene
Gallery that contains the coordinates of fullerene species as well as other
information such as graphical displays of selected molecular orbitals. John Jaszczak at
o The Purdue
Chemistry Department also maintains an interactive tutorial on VSEPR. You
need a copy of MDLI's viewer, Chime, or Rasmol to
view the structures.
o The
o Kenneth Libbrecht at the
California Institute of Technology has developed Snow Crystals, an
informative Web page on the solid state of water. The site includes numerous
photographs of snowflakes.
o BoronWeb has a page providing links to NMR spectra of
boron compounds.
4. Transition Metals
o Properties of the metals
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Copper. The Copper Data Center has useful information. The
link on copper compounds has the most information of use to the chemist.
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Iron. The American Iron and Steel Institute maintains a
home page with information on the production and uses of steel.
o Purdue also has a nice tutorial reviewing the Chemistry of Coordination
Compounds. Structures of ligands and complexes are included.
o Bob Toreki has developed the
Organometallic HyperTextBook that provides information on a full range
of organometallic chemistry. It is organized according to classes of reactions
and includes a section on the 18-electron rule.
o Dermot O'Hare at
o The Web site at Uwimona on
o Nick
Greeves at the
o Rainer Schobert provides the
X-Ray structures of the organometallic
compounds studied in his group at the
o The
o The Web site of George Eby Research includes a discussion and a compilation of
first stability constants for selected ligands and transition metal ions. The site also has a link to data tables
used in MaxChelator.
o Academic Software sells The IUPAC Stability Constants Database, a
comprehensive electronic version of the IUPAC database. The database has a number of useful
visualization tools such as a graph of the dependence of K on ionic strength.
5. Solid-State Chemistry and Materials Science
o IUCr maintains a collection of links to tutorials on
crystallographic methods used to determine the structure of solids.
o An on-line tutorial on crystal structures is available
at the Institut Laue-Langevin. A
VRML reader is needed to view the crystal structures.
o Robert Downs of the
o Chemists at
o The USGS
Imaging Lab maintains an extensive library of spectra of minerals.
o Extensive information on minerals with an emphasis on
crystallography is provided by the Athena project at
the University of Geneva, Switzerland and by the Mineralogy
Database of David Bartehelmy.
o The Minerals
Spectroscopy Server maintained by George Rossman
at CalTech is a valuable collection of spectroscopic
data on minerals. Visible, infrared, and Raman spectra are provided.
o The RRUFF Website at
the
o The Geokem (Geochemistry of Igneous Rocks) Website at the
o Materials
By Design site at
o AZOM, subtitled
Metals, Ceramics, Polymers, Composites: An Engineer's Resource, is a clearing
house for information including material properties such as specific heat of a
wide range of materials.
o A Navy site at the Naval Research Lab provides a
useful set of crystal lattice
structures.
o The Molecular Science Project at UCLA has developed Crystalline Solids,
a program that displays the crystal structure of a wide variety of binary
substances and elements. The program which can be downloaded or used on-line,
is very useful for teaching packing models.
o Mindat Books provides at no cost images pdf format of classics in the field of mineralogy. You have
to register in order to access the collection.
o The Reticular
Chemistry Structure Resource (RCSR) database hosted by Stuart Ramsdem of The Australian National University organizes
molecular clusters with Metal-Organic Frameworks on the basis of graphs called
periodic nets. The methodology is discussed in M. O'Keefe, M. A. Peskov, S. J. Ramsden, and O. M. Yaghi, Accnts. Chem.
Res., Vol. 41, 1782-1789 (2008).
o Nanotechnology is an emerging field of materials
science. For information, consult the following pages:
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The TecNANO
page maintained by the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing.
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The Xerox page which has information about
molecular nanotechnology and links to on-line articles.
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Nanocrystals and molecular clusters are active areas of research.
Very useful libraries of clusters with coordinate files are the Cambridge Cluster Database and
the Birmingham Cluster Web.
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The NASA site
which has images and movies on molecular machines. Also check out a second site maintained by
NASA Ames.
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The Nanotechnology Simulation Hub, run at
Purdue and co-sponsored by the NSF, is a not only a collection of information
but also a virtual lab with a suite of simulation tools. Registration is
required but free.
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IBM's Almaden Laboratory hosts the STM Gallery, a
collection of images taken with a STM microscope.
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American Elements, a supplier of nanomaterials and inorganic materials used in their
preparation, provides in its Web page information about these substances.
last updated, 26 June 2011