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Group logistics

• meeting schedule

• lab work schedule

• lab floor plan

• data repository

Laboratory Guidelines

• Accessing Material Safety Data Sheets

• Notebook guidelines

• Waste guidelines 

• Flash chromatography guidelines (if needed, see this tutorial video)

• TLC guidelines (if needed, see the tutorial videos for basic TLC and column TLC)

Instrument Operating Procedures & Techniques

• NMR Guides:  preparing a sample | loading a sample | running an experiment | running a noD experiment

• Isolera:  standard operation with wet loading | dry loading with samplet | using a step gradient | changing solvents

• Running an IR

• Working under nitrogen:  operating the nitrogen | proper use of the manifold

• Running a column

• Operating the vacuum pump

• Syringe pump SOP

• Washing dishes  

Forms

• Stockroom order form

• C,H,N sample form (please don't change pre-filled fields)

• Reaction plansheet

Miscellaneous Lab Hacks

• Cooling bath compositions

• Estimating and reporting yields

• Exporting narrative NMR data from MNova

• Saturated vapor pressure calculator

• Recrystallizing diphenylacetic acid

• Reducing contamination

• Not Voodoo X.4 (a great site for practical tips maintained by U. Rochester)

Spectroscopy resources

• Chemical shifts of common solvents

• Cambridge NMR solvent chart

• Practical guide to multiplet analysis Pt. I

• Practical guide to multiplet analysis Pt. II

• SDBS database

• Web course on NMR from Queen's University

• NMR prediction tool from nmrdb.org

• Torres and Price, "Common problems and artifacts encountered in solution-state NMR experiments"

• Shimming an NMR magnet

Chromatography resources

• Eluting strength of solvents

• Flash chromatography guide (Argonaut)

• Solvent miscibility chart

• TLC visualization solutions

• Fair & Kormos, Flash column chromatograms estimated from thin-layer chromatography data (Excel spreadsheet)

Distillation resources

• Aldrich interactive nomograph

• Pressure-temperature nomograph (printable)

Reference materials

• CRC Handbook Online 

• Chemical abbreviations from Kürti & Czakó

• pKa tables from Evans (Harvard)

• pKa tables from Reich (Wisconsin)

• Mayr's Database of Reactivity Parameters

• Methyl cation affinities of canonical organic functional groups

• Protective Groups in Organic Chemistry (e-book)

• Purification of Laboratory Compounds (e-book)

Databases and Journal Indexes

• CASSI Journal abbreviation search tool

• European Patent Server via esp@cenet.com

• Organic Chemistry Portal

• SciFinder (requires subscription)

• US Patent Office Server

• World Patents via freepatentsonline.com

Chemical Catalogues and Directories

• Acros Organics

• ChemExper chemical directory

• ChemSpider

• Oakwood Chemical

• Sigma-Aldrich