Helpful Websites (Chemistry)

Chemistry on Reddit

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I'm a big fan of Reddit for a number of reasons and found a nice little section for the chemists. It's fairly active (daily) and seems to be more about day-to-day life as a chemist or chemistry student rather than a place for people needing help with homework. "There's a subreddit for that" and, in...

tags: community, reddit 
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Search and upload theses and dissertations

OpenThesis is a place to upload your thesis for everyone else to read and use. Looks like a great resource for students who need a little help getting through the hardest part of a grad degree. From the site: OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents,...

tags: dissertation, phd, thesis 
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Chemistry people and groups on Twitter

If you think Twitter is just for celebrities and social media lunatics, you might be surprised. C&EN put together a few chemists tweeting away for folks in the sciences looking to break out of their shell a bit. This was written in 2009 so some of it might be a bit out of date but most of the...

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Spectral Database for Organic Compounds

Easily the most useful site I ever used during my Chemistry undergrad. AIST (Japan) put together a database of spectral analysis for anyone who needs to look up what a particular compound will look like under scrutiny. You can search by name, formula, weight, number of atoms, and certain NMR shifts...

tags: NMR, spectra 
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