Organic Chemistry

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Analytical Instruments for the Environmental Laboratory - from EST Analytical
Atomic Force Acoustical Microscopy (AFAM) - from Nanotech-America
Chemical Bonds - Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond: A Documentary History
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Fluka - supplier of research quantities of chemicals
Fragrance and Flavor Chemicals - examples of each grouping
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Light Scattering can yield the molar mass, rms radius, and second virial coefficient (A2) - light scattering provides the weight-averaged molar mass for all molecules in solution - from Wyatt Technology Co.
Molecular Models
MSDS (material safety data sheets - compiled by Cornell University
Odors and Fragrances - Lesson A - Identification of Common Scented and Unscented Products from Dow
Odors and Fragrances - Lesson B - Science of formulating Flavors and Fragrances from Dow
Odors and Fragrances - Lesson C - Synthesizing Esters in the Laboratory from Dow
OPD Chemical Buyers Guide - from Chemical Marketing Reporter (OPD means Oil, Paint & Drug)
Organic and Biochemistry - various interesting investigations such as the preparation of soap and of esters
Organic Synthesis - website and database
Perfumery Raw Materials - with explanations of odors
Periodic Table of Comics
Periodic Table of Elements - you can use this to look up info on individual elements including allegations regarding toxicity
Physical Organic Chemistry - Glossary of Terms
Sigma Diagnostic - source of research organics which can be found using a search engine that allows users to draw molecules, combine with name fragments or physical properties, and then rapidly search for matches from over 160,000 possible compounds
Smells Database - from ChemConnections
Supercritical Fluid Mass Spectrometry - from Thar Technologies

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GLOSSARY TERMS

abstraction, acceptor number (AN), acid, acidity, acidity function, activated complex, activation energy, addend, addition, addition reaction, additivity principle, adduct, agostic, alcoholysis, allylic substitution reaction, alternant, ambident, amphiphilic, amphiprotic (solvent), amphoteric, anchimeric assistance, anionotropic rearrangement (or anionotropy), anion radical, annelation, annulation, annulene, antarafacial, antiaromatic, anti-Hammond effect, anti-Markownikoff addition, aprotic (solvent), aquation, aromatic, aromaticity, Arrhenius equation, aryne, association, asymmetric induction, atomic orbital, attachment, autocatalytic reaction, automerization, autoprotolysis, autoprotolysis constant, azacarbene, azene, azylene, Baldwin's rules, base, basicity, basicity function, bathochromic shift (effect), Bell-Evans-Polanyi principle, benzyne, bifunctional catalysis, bimolecular, binding site, biradical, Bodenstein approximation, bond, bond dissociation, bond-dissociation energy, bond energy (mean bond energy, bond migration, bond number, bond order, borderline mechanism, Bredt's rule, bridged carbocation, bridging ligand, Bunnett-Olsen equations, cage compound, canonical form, captodative effect, carbanion, carbene, carbenium centre, carbenium ion, carbenoid, carbocation, carbonium ion, carbyne, catalysis, catalysis law, catalyst, catalytic coefficient, cationotropic rearrangement (cationotropy), cation radical, chain reaction, chain transfer, charge density, charge population, charge-transfer complex, chelation, cheletropic reaction, chelotropic reaction, chemical flux, chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization (CIDNP), chemical reaction, chemical relaxation, chemical shift (NMR), chemical species, chemoselective, chemoselectivity, chemospecificity, chromophore, CIDNP (Chemically Induced Dynamic Nuclear Polarization), cine-substitution, class (a) metal ion, class (b) metal ion, clathrate, colligation, common-ion effect (on rates), compensation effect, complementary binding sites, complex, composite reaction, comproportionation, concerted process, condensation reaction, configuration (electronic), configuration (molecular), conformation, conjugate acid-base pair, conjugated system, conjugation, conjugative mechanism, connectivity, constitution, conrotatory, contact ion pair, contributing structure, coordinate covalence (coordinate link), coordination, coordination number, coordinatively saturated, coordinatively unsaturated, coronate, correlation analysis, cosphere, coupling constant (spin-spin coupling constant), covalent bond, Cox-Yates equation, critical micelle concentration (cmc), cross-conjugation, crown, cryptand, Curtin-Hammett principle, cybotactic region, cyclization, cycloaddition, cycloelimination, cycloreversion, dative bond, decomposition, de-electronation, degenerate chemical reaction, degenerate rearrangement, delocalization, deshielding, detachment, detailed balancing, diamagnetic, diastereoisomerism, dielectric constant, dienophile, diffusion-controlled rate, dimerization, dipolar aprotic solvent, dipolar bond, dipolar cycloaddition, dipole-dipole interaction, dipole-induced dipole forces, diradical, direct effect, dismutation, dispersion forces, disproportionation, disrotatory, dissociation, distonic radical cation, donor number (DN), downfield, driving force (also called the affinity) of a reaction, dual substituent-parameter equation, , educt, effective charge, effective molarity (or effective concentration), eighteen-electron rule, electrocyclic reaction, electrofuge, electromeric effect, electron acceptor, electron affinity, electronation, electron attachment, electron configuration, electron-deficient bond, electron density, electron detachment, electron donor, electron-donor-acceptor complex, electronegativity, electroneutrality principle, electronic effect of substituents: symbols and signs, electron-pair acceptor, electron-pair donor, electron transfer, electron-transfer catalysis, electrophile, electrophilic, electrophilicity, element effect, elementary reaction, elimination, enantiomer, enantioselectivity, encounter complex, encounter-controlled rate, ene reaction, energy of activation (Arrhenius energy of activation; activation energy), energy profile, enforced concerted mechanism, enophile, entering group, enthalpy of activation (standard entalpy of activation), entropy of activation, (standard entropy of activation), epimer, epimerization, equilibrium, chemical, equilibrium control, excess acidity, excimer, excited state, extended Hammett equation, external return, extrusion transformation, fast-atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectroscopy, flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP), fluxional, force-field calculations, fractionation factor, isotopic, fragmentation, free radical, frontier orbitals, functional group, gas-phase acidity, gas-phase basicity, geminate pair, geminate recombination, general acid catalysis, general base catalysis, Gibbs energy diagram, Gibbs energy of activation (standard free energy of activation), ground state, Grunwald-Winstein equation, guest, half-life, halochromism, Hammett acidity function, Hammett equation (or Hammett relation), Hammond principle (or Hammond postulate), Hansch constant, hapto, hard acid, hard base, heat capacity of activation, hemileptic, Henderson-Hasselbach equation, heterobimetallic complex, heteroconjugation, heteroleptic, heterolysis, heterolytic, heterolytic bond-dissociation energy, heterovalent hyperconjugation, hidden return, Hildebrand parameter, Hofmann rule, homoaromatic, homoconjugation, homoleptic, homolysis, homolytic, hybridization, hydration, hydrogen bond, hydrolysis, hydron, hydrophilic, hydrophobic interaction, hyperconjugation, hypsochromic shift, identity reaction, imbalance, imene, imidogen, imidonium ion, imin, imine radical, inclusion compound (or inclusion complex), induction period, inductive effect, inductomeric effect, inert, inhibition, initiation, inner-sphere (electron transfer), insertion, intermediate, intermolecular, internal return, intimate ion pair, intramolecular, intramolecular catalysis, intrinsic barrier, inverse kinetic isotope effect, inverted micelle, ionic strength, ionization, ionization energy, ionizing power, ion pair, ion pair return, ipso-attack, isodesmic reaction, isoelectronic, isoentropic, isoequilibrium relationship, isokinetic relationship, isolobal, isomer, isomerization, isosbestic point, isoselective relationship, isotope effect, isotope effect, equilibrium, isotope effect, heavy atom, isotope effect, intramolecular, isotope effect, inverse, isotope effect, kinetic, isotope effect, primary, isotope effect, secondary, isotope effect, solvent, isotope effect, steric, isotope effect, thermodynamic, isotope exchange, isotopic perturbation, method of, isotopic scrambling, isotopologue, isotopomer, isovalent hyperconjugation, Kamlet-Taft solvent parameters, Kekulé structure (for aromatic compounds), kinetic ambiguity, kinetic control (of product composition), kinetic electrolyte effect (kinetic ionic-strength effect), kinetic equivalence, kinetic isotope effect, Koppel-Palm solvent parameters, Kosower-value, labile, least nuclear motion, principle of, leaving group, Leffler's assumption, left-to-right convention, levelling effect, Lewis acid, Lewis acidity, Lewis adduct, Lewis base, Lewis basicity, Lewis formula (electron dot or Lewis structure), lifetime (mean lifetime), ligand, linear free-energy relation, linear Gibbs energy relation, linear solvation energy relationships, line formula, line-shape analysis, Lineweaver-Burk plot, lipophilic, London forces, lone (electron) pair, loose ion pair, LUMO, lyate ion, lyonium ion, macroscopic diffusion control, magic acid, magnetic equivalence, magnetization transfer, Marcus equation, Markownikoff rule, mass-law effect, matrix isolation, mean lifetime, mechanism, mechanism-based inhibition, medium, Meisenheimer adduct, melting point (corrected/uncorrected), mesolytic cleavage, mesomeric effect, mesomerism, mesophase, metastable (chemical species), metathesis, methylene, methylidyne, micellar catalysis, micelle, Michaelis-Menten kinetics, microscopic chemical event, microscopic diffusion control (encounter control), microscopic reversibility, principle of, migration, migratory aptitude, migratory insertion, minimum structural change, principle of, mixing control, Möbius aromaticity, moiety, molecular entity, molecularity, molecular mechanics calculation, molecular metal, molecular orbital, molecular rearrangement, molecule, More O'Ferrall-Jencks diagram, multi-centre bond, multi-centre reaction, multident, (mu), narcissistic reaction, neighbouring group participation, NHOMO, NIH shift, nitrene, nitrenium ion, no-bond resonance, nonclassical carbocation, normal kinetic isotope effect, nucleofuge, nucleophile, nucleophilic, nucleophilic catalysis, nucleophilicity, onium ion, opposing reactions, optical yield, orbital, orbital steering, orbital symmetry, order of reaction, outer-sphere (electron transfer), oxidation, oxidation number, oxidative addition, oxidative coupling, parallel reaction, paramagnetic, partial rate factor, pericyclic reaction, periselectivity, perpendicular effect, persistent, pH-rate profile, phase-transfer catalysis, phenonium ion, photolysis, polar aprotic solvent, polar effect, polar solvent, polarity, polarizability, polydent, potential-energy profile, potential-energy (reaction) surface, pre-association, precursor complex, pre-equilibrium (or prior equilibrium), pre-exponential factor, primary kinetic electrolyte effect, primary kinetic isotope effect, primitive change, prior equilibrium, product-determining step, product development control, promotion, propagation, protic, protogenic (solvent), protolysis, proton affinity, proton transfer reaction, protophilic (solvent), prototropic rearrangement (or prototropy), pseudo-catalysis, pseudo-first order rate coefficient, pseudomolecular rearrangement, pseudopericyclic, pseudo-unimolecular, pyrolysis, radical (or free radical), radical anion, radical centre(s), radical combination, radical ion, radical pair (or geminate pair), radiolysis, rate coefficient, rate constant, rate-controlling step, rate-determining step, rate-limiting step, rate law (or empirical differential rate equation, rate of appearance, rate of reaction, reacting bond rules, reaction, reaction coordinatea, reaction mechanism, reaction path, reaction stage, reaction step, reactive, reactivity, reactivity index, reactivity-selectivity principle (RSP), rearrangement, rearrangement stage, reduction, reductive elimination, regioselectivity, regioselective, reorganization energy, resonance, resonance effect, resonance energy, retroaddition, retrocycloaddition, retro-ene reaction, reverse micelle (or reversed micelle), Ritchie equation, -value (rho-value), sacrificial hyperconjugation, +salt effect, saturation transfer, Saytzeff rule, scavenger, scrambling, secondary kinetic electrolyte effect, secondary kinetic isotope effect, selectivity, selectivity factor, shielding, sigma, pi , sigmatropic rearrangement, silylene, single-electron transfer mechanism (SET), single-step reaction, Slater-type orbital, soft acid, soft base, solvation, solvatochromic relationship, solvatochromism, solvent isotope effect, solvent parameter, solvent polarity, solvent-separated ion pair, solvolysis, solvophobicity parameter, SOMO, sonication, special salt effect, species, specific catalysis, spectator mechanism, spin adduct, spin counting, spin density, spin label, spin trapping, stable, stationary state, steady state (or stationary state), stepwise reaction, stereoelectronic, stereoelectronic control, stereoselectivity, stereoselective, stereospecificity, stereospecific, steric-approach control, steric effect, steric isotope effect, steric hindrance, stoichiometric number, stopped flow, strain, subjacent orbital, substituent, substituent electronegativity, substitution reaction, substrate, successor complex, suicide inhibition, superacid, superbase, suprafacial, supramolecule, Swain-Lupton equation, Swain-Scott equation, symbiosis, symproportionation, syn, synartetic acceleration, synchronization (principle of nonperfect synchronization), synchronous, T-jump, Taft equation, tautomeric effect, tautomerism, tautomerization, tele-substitution, telomerization, termination, tetrahedral intermediate, thermodynamic control (of product composition), thermolysis, tight-ion pair, T-jump, torquoselectivity, transferability, transformation, transient (chemical) species, transition coordinate, transition state, transition state analogue, transition structure, transmission coefficient, transport control, trapping, tunnelling, umpolung, unimolecular, unreactive, unstable, upfield, valence, valence isomer, valence tautomerization, van der Waals forces, volume of activation, Wheland intermediate, Woodward-Hoffmann rules, Ylide, Yukawa-Tsuno equation, Z, Zaitsev rule, zwitterionic compound, Zucker-Hammett hypothesis.