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 56
evans.harvard.edu/problems Problems for group meetings 34
www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/pkatable/index.htm Bordwell pKa table 27
www.orgsyn.org search for reaction procedure 24
www.organiclinks.net people 24
www.organische-chemie.ch protection groups / stabilities vs. reagents 21
www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/Handouts/nmr-h/hdata.htm Proton and Carbon NMR shifts 16
www.nmrshiftdb.org/ nmr shifts, substructure search available 15
www.corante.com/pipeline/ commentary on drug discovery 12
www.alsnotebook.com/ A collection of commonly used experimental procedures and other interesting stuff for synthetic chemists 12
www.ilpi.com/inorganic/glassware/index.html glassware, and how to use it 11
stoltz.caltech.edu/clubs/index.php Stoltz group club/ group meetings (PDF's for literature talks) 11
www.organometallics.net people working with metals 11
www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/Handouts/acronyms.pdf Organic chemistry acronyms 11
medlib.med.utah.edu/masspec/elcomp.htm Assignment of formulas via HRMS 8
chemknowhow.com a colleague of "Not Voodoo": practical advices in routine daily work of a chemist 8
organicdivision.org meetings, awards, general information and links 8
www.princeton.edu/~dmacgr/meetings.html McMillan group seminars . pdf files for various subjects 7
totallysynthetic.com/blog Interesting forefront total syntheses and a great breakdown of key steps 4
kilomentor.chemicalblogs.com process development 2