The Tour of Collective Wisdom presents:
Desert Island Websites


When a synthetic organic chemist wants to look something up, there are certain places they look first.

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Website Used when I need to find I find this website useful Number of advocates
www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS searchable Spectral Database for organic compounds 70
evans.harvard.edu/problems Problems for group meetings 45
www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/pkatable/index.htm Bordwell pKa table 34
www.orgsyn.org search for reaction procedure 31
www.organiclinks.net people 26
www.affordabook.com/ Best prices on textbooks and books in general 26
www.organische-chemie.ch protection groups / stabilities vs. reagents 24
www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/Handouts/nmr-h/hdata.htm Proton and Carbon NMR shifts 21
www.nmrshiftdb.org/ nmr shifts, substructure search available 17
www.corante.com/pipeline/ commentary on drug discovery 15
www.alsnotebook.com/ A collection of commonly used experimental procedures and other interesting stuff for synthetic chemists 15
stoltz.caltech.edu/clubs/index.php Stoltz group club/ group meetings (PDF's for literature talks) 14
www.organometallics.net people working with metals 14
www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/Handouts/acronyms.pdf Organic chemistry acronyms 14
www.ilpi.com/inorganic/glassware/index.html glassware, and how to use it 13
www.affordtextbooks.com cheapest textbooks for all subjects 13
chemknowhow.com a colleague of "Not Voodoo": practical advices in routine daily work of a chemist 11
www.princeton.edu/chemistry/macmillan/group-meetings/ MacMillan group seminars, PDF files 11
organicdivision.org meetings, awards, general information and links 11
medlib.med.utah.edu/masspec/elcomp.htm Assignment of formulas via HRMS 10
totallysynthetic.com/blog Interesting forefront total syntheses and a great breakdown of key steps 10
kilomentor.chemicalblogs.com process development 4
IONiC VIPEr Teaching materials for inorganic chemistry 3
http://www.organic-chemistry.org/ synthetic methods, reaction mechanisms, name reactions 3
www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/pkatable/index.htm pka 2
www.orgsyn.org chemical reaction for drug syntheis 1
www.organische-chemie.ch protection groups 1
http://cbc.arizona.edu/njardarson/group/top-pharmaceuticals-poster chemical structures of top selling pharmaceuticals 1
http://chemistrybydesign.oia.arizona.edu/ database of synthetic sequences to learn from and test my knowledge 1
www.openaccesschemistry.blogspot.com Research Information on chemistry and open access 1