Educational Materials for Organic Chemistry

Materials relevant to CEM 252 at Michigan State University (spring 1997) - Organized by chapter

• Course Syllabus
• TA Office Hours
• TAC Hours
• Virtual Office Hours - Last question asked 2/26/97
• Group Project Description
  • Web version of one group project
• Course Introduction - This reproduction of the transparency shown the first day of class shows how much you have already learned and how the material we have yet to learn integrates with what you know.
• Index page of Chemical Safety and Toxicity Information - NEW
• Chapter 12 - Mass Spectrometry
  • Practice Problems
  • JICST (Japan Information Center of Science and Technology) Mass Spectral Database - a database of mass spectral data indexed by compound name. Look up the mass spectrum of your favorite compound
  • Basic Mass Spectroscopy - by Paul Young, University of Illinois at Chicago. Includes practice problems.
  • Tutorial and practice problems - by Prof Evan Thompson, California State University, Stanislaus
• Chapter 13 - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Practice Problems
  • Basic Proton and C-13 NMR - by Paul Young, University of Illinois at Chicago. Includes practice problems.
  • MRI Tutorial - by Ray Ballinger. This site shows a medical application of NMR spectroscopy. Many of the subtopics are very technical, but specific medical uses of MRI are included and may be interesting to you.
  • A brief history of NMR - A section of the early history of Varian.
• Chapter 14 - Infrared and Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy
  • Practice Problems
  • IR - Animations of molecular vibrations excited by various wavelengths of infrared light.
  • Basic Infra-red Spectroscopy - by Paul Young, University of Illinois at Chicago. Includes practice problems.
  • Quick Infra-red Tutorial and practice problems - by Prof Evan Thompson, California State University, Stanislaus (Note: the author has not made solutions available for the unknowns, but discussion with other students and/or course instructors should clarify any questions you may have about them)
• Chapter 22 - Amines
  • Practice Problems
  • Amine Reactions Overhead
  • On-line Articles from Chemical Health and Safety
  • On-line Articles from Environmental Science and Technology
• Chapter 24 - Amino Acids and Proteins
  • Lecture Notes
  • Practice Problems
  • Proteins - Animations and pictures of proteins and protein secondary structures.
  • Protein Databank - a database of protein structures determined by x-ray crystallography or NMR methods. Database maintained by the Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Chapter 25 - Nucleic Acids
  • Lecture Notes
  • Practice Problems
  • DNA - Animations and molecules of DNA with demonstrations of base-pairing.
• Chapter 17 - Aldehydes and Ketones
  • Lecture Notes
  • Practice Problems
• Chapter 21 - Enolate Anions and Enamines
  • Lecture Notes
  • Practice Problems
• Chapter 18 - Carbohydrates
  • Lecture Notes
  • Carbohydrate Structure Exercises
  • Practice Problems
  • Monosaccharide Browser - by Jon Maber at Leeds
• Chapter 19 - Carboxylic Acids
  • Lecture Notes
  • Overview of Reduction Reactions - from lecture on 3/31/97
  • Practice Problems
• Chapter 20 - Functional Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids
  • Lecture Notes
  • Practice Problems
• Chapter 23 - Lipids
  • Lecture Notes
  • Practice Problems
  • American Council on Science and Health - olestra article: A relatively neutral article on olestra
  • James Burke's Olestra page: A strongly negative olestra page
  • Proctor & Gamble's Olean Page: A strongly positive olestra page

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