Useful Links

Administrative Links (for Dr. Dong)

• Santa Monica College - Care and Prevention Team   www.smc.edu/cpt

• SMC E-mail: outlook.office.com

• Journal of Chemical Education subscription from SMC Library

• Dr. Peggy Kline's Organic Chemistry webpage (lots of class resources, old exams, and study questions): https://smc-ochem.com/kline/

• Periodic Table: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/periodic-table/

•  Mass Spec generator (generates tabulated mass spec data and also a image): https://www.sisweb.com/mstools/isotope.htm

• Virtual Molecular Model Kit

  • MolView: https://molview.org/

  • CheMagic: https://chemagic.org/molecules/

  • Chem Doodle https://web.chemdoodle.com/demos/2d-to-3d-coordinates#customise-template (especially useful for showing chirality since the previous two programs cannot show both R and S enantiomers easily)

• Simulations

  • https://javalab.org/en/category/chemistry_en/

  • Polarimetry simulator from Dr. Arno Papazyan: https://www.papazyan.org/PolarimeterSim/PolSimv2.html

• Classroom timers

  • Digital Clock: https://www.gynzy.com/en-us/library/items/digital-clock

  • Analog Clock: https://www.gynzy.com/en-us/library/items/analog-clock 

  • 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_HoE_VDxI&list=RDCMUCYo5An-3L_eOd1l5WQdU3oQ&index=2

  • 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20IrFBEQHH8&list=RDCMUCYo5An-3L_eOd1l5WQdU3oQ&index=3

  • 15 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRbnxOuOrk8

• Barracuda Spam Filter https://ess.barracudanetworks.com/user/auth/login

• Office 365 portal.office.com

• Human Resources (including Faculty Handbook): https://www.smc.edu/administration/human-resources/new-hires/full-time-faculty.php

• Lab Equipment Clipart Drawing Program https://chemix.org/

• Canvas http://online.smc.edu

  • IT Help   https://ithelp.smc.edu/portal

• SMC mProfessor: http://www.smc.edu/mp

• ACS Safety video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzzlFTZKAIA

  • SMC Emergency Preparedness Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14dYPMTDmhY

• Online Clock: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/online-clock/

  • Countdown stopwatch: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/create

• SMC Class schedules: https://www.smc.edu/AboutSMC/Pages/Class-Schedules.aspx

• Room Reservation Requests http://ems.smc.edu/virtualems/

  • Useful Links for SMC Faculty/Staff: http://www.smc.edu/AboutSMC/Pages/Faculty-Staff.aspx

• Reprographics Color Sheet

  • SMC Dates and Deadlines http://www.smc.edu/EnrollmentDevelopment/Admissions/Pages/Dates-and-Deadlines.aspx

  • SMC Faculty Guide from Admissions Department (password required)

• Periodic Table for Projection

  • Most recent Periodic Table from IUPAC (last updated Nov 2016)     JPG      PDF

• DSPS Form PDF

Links for the SMC Physical Sciences Department

• Document Camera instructions

  • Chem 10 New Faculty Guide (available to faculty upon request)

For students

• Student Request a Class Link: https://forms.office.com/r/xfwqYqBrPR 

• SMC Chemistry Club: https://www.facebook.com/chemistryclubsmc

• SMC Campus map: https://www.smc.edu/campusmap/main_campus_map.htm

  • Cool science demos from Steve Spangler on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA_kqRHsoKxPZ22PPkaGwjA

  • pKa tables https://owl.oit.umass.edu/departments/OrganicChemistry/appendix/pKaTable.html

  • Student Health

    • SMC Center for Wellness & Wellbeing offers 24/7 phone helpline for students 1-800-691-6003.  Students can call anytime for in the moment support from a mental health clinician affiliated with the Center for Wellness & Wellbeing.  Faculty and staff can call the number too to consult about students if the Center for Wellness & Wellbeing is closed.

Math tools

• Quadratic Equation Solver from Wolfram-Alpha

  • Calculator tutorials for Texas Instruments TI-30XIIS

    • Inputting exponents and scientific notation (very relevant for Chem 10!):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeLCGiv9wjs&nohtml5=False

    • How to input fractions (not very relevant for Chem 10): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJoV_4cmLBo&nohtml5=False

  • Mass Percent Composition calculator (Combustion Analysis): http://www.webqc.org/molecular-weight-of-c2h7.html

Equipment Tutorials

• Spectronic 20 (UV-Vis Instrument): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqw1ULEOkwg

  • Vernier Labquest pH probe        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmxoXJhWG0A                     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQK1qdw9J3s

  • IR instruction sheet   download

  • Melting point device  download

  • Polarimeter download

  • N-Evap instrument  download

  • Polarimeter     instruction sheet    Youtube video demo           Vernier Scale tutorial       

Journal Articles through SMC Library (and other Library resources)

• • Journal of Chemical Education (American Chemical Society)

  • Science Full Text Select   (includes Canadian Journal of Chemistry,  Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society (JAOCS), Nature Reviews Microbiology, Foundations of Chemistry, etc.)

  • Science Magazine (1997 and beyond)

  • Films on Demand - SMC Library has subscription to database of educational films (clips and full length)

Open Access (Free) chemistry Journal Articles

• • ACS Central Science - the first fully open access journal published by the American Chemical Society (every article is open access!)

  • ACS Editors Choice - 1 journal article per day selected from an ACS journal 

  • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry - open access journal with research articles and review articles

• Chemistry Central Journal (Springer Open)

• Chemistry Education Research and Practice (open access courtesy of Royal Society of Chemistry)

Open Access (Free) chemistry seminars

• ACS Webinars - Popular chemistry talks

Spectroscopy Resources               Plain graph paper for drawing splitting trees   download

• NMR solvents reference

  • Spectral Database of Organic Compounds (SDBS) - good source of NMR, IR, and Mass Spec Data

  • Interactive predictive online NMR spectra (advanced NMR techniques: COSY, HSQC) - https://www.nmrdb.org/

  • NMR practice website made by Prof. Craig Merlic UCLA: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~webspectra/

  • NIST Webbook (good source of IR and Mass Spec spectra): http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/   especially useful is the "Structural Classification" search tool accessible via Search Options --> Structure --> Specify structure properties and subgroups in a form

  • RSC Spectroscopy for Schools and Colleges: http://www.rsc.org/Education/Teachers/Resources/spectra/index2.htm

  • good site for Mass Spec data: http://www.massbank.jp/QuickSearch.html

Labs

• • Green Chemistry Lab Experiments http://greenchem.uoregon.edu/Pages/ResultsAll.php

  • TLC Stain Recipes (from the Not Voodoo site; Word Doc version)

Simulations

• Student-friendly graphing interface

  • Chemical Thinking Interactives from Talanquer group at University of Arizona - amazing collection of simulations!

Synthetic Procedures Online

• • Common Organic Chemistry (includes example reactions, detailed procedures, reagent summaries, and patent PDFs)

Miscellaneous

• • Can the test be open book?   Answer

  • Organic Chemistry comics by cartoonist Brendan Burkett   http://cen.acs.org/sketch-chemistry.html      https://www.chemscrapes.net/chemistry-cartoons