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Synthetic organic chemists need certain information at their fingertips. In the laboratory, these resources can be found hanging on the wall, at the bench or the desk, or bookmarked on the computer.

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NMR Chemical Shifts of Common Laboratory Solvents as Trace Impurities in 1H and 13C (PDF) 112
NMR solvent properties in 1H and 13C (PDF) 66
Chart: Relative polarity of solvents (Word document) 54
List: specific temperatures of salt-ice cooling mixtures (PDF) 46
Chart: Selecting an appropriate desiccant (PDF) 36
Solution formulas for common acid/base solutions from concentrated acid/base (Word document) 35
Chart: characteristic IR absorption frequencies (Word document) 33
Periodic Table From WebElements (PDF) 32
13C NMR chemical shift values for various carbon functional groups (Word document) 32
Unit conversions (website) 31
1H NMR chemical shift values and coupling constants for various functional groups (Word document) 28
Molecular sieves for selective absorption of specific molecules (Word document) 25
Chart: Vapor pressurs for common liquids at specific temperatures (PDF) 24
Davidson Web Conversion Utility for pressure unit conversion (website) 23
Interactive Pressure-Temperature Nomograph and Pressure Unit Converter (Requires Adobe Flash plug-in) 3
Chart: common reagents for oxidation of alcohols 3
Cheat sheet: physical properties of common solvents, reagents, etc. 3