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Desert Island Tools, Tables, Charts, and Graphs


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.

ResourceI find this resource usefulNumber of advocates
NMR Chemical Shifts of Common Laboratory Solvents as Trace Impurities in 1H and 13C (PDF) 219
NMR solvent properties in 1H and 13C (PDF) 103
Chart: Relative polarity of solvents (Word document) 102
Specific temperatures of Salt-Ice Cooling Mixtures (PDF) 89
Solution formulas for common acid/base solutions from concentrated acid/base (Word document) 76
Chart: Selecting an appropriate desiccant (PDF) 63
Periodic Table From WebElements (PDF) 61
13C NMR chemical shift values for various carbon functional groups (Word document) 61
Chart: Characteristic IR absorption frequencies (Word document) 56
1H NMR chemical shift values and coupling constants for various functional groups (Word document) 55
Unit conversions (website) 53
Molecular sieves resource (website) 47
Chart: Vapor pressurs for common liquids at certain temperatures (PDF) 47
Davidson Web Conversion Utility for pressure unit conversion (website) 42
Cheat sheet: physical properties of common solvents, reagents, etc. (PDF) 36
Chart: common reagents for oxidation of alcohols (PDF) 31
Interactive Pressure-Temperature Nomograph and Pressure Unit Converter (Requires Adobe Flash plug-in) 28
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