Lab Resources

These links available to Kenyon accounts only.

Installation instructions for software, including ChemDraw and MestReNova, are here. Basic 1H NMR processing instructions are here.

All instrument data is available here. Getzler lab NMR data is here. Archived NMR data from the old instrument is here.

Need to reference your spectra to residual solvent? Check out the amazingly useful paper by Gottlieb, Kotlyar, & Nudelman which gives the shifts of common impurities in common NMR solvents.

What concentration of analyte does an NMR experiment need? Check here (archived as pdf here).

How pure is your sample? Use this web app to figure it out. It assumes proper assignment of integration values to "Your Product". Hat tip to Sam Levine.

Fantastic stains and how to use them (TLC stain recipes and the compounds they're good for). SiliCycle has a nice companion sheet (archived to avoid linkrot)

And Nick Chiappini put together an great TLC solvent strength translator google doc.

Or consult this equieluotropic series chart, from Thin Layer Chromatography, G.B. Marini-Brttolo, p. 77, 1967 (thanks to Hofferberth!).

Honor your ancestors and read the original paper by Still, Kahn, & Mira. Then actually use this guide from REACH Devices (archived as a pdf here).

This chart tells one which solvents a miscible with each other and which are most polar. If you're unsure how to use it, ask me! Thanks to George Lisensky.

Here's another great list of solvents by polarity.

What is the pKa of a particular species? Here is an exhaustive list of pKa values compiled by R. Williams.

Alternately you can use this web-based interface to access pKa values. NOTE: THESE ARE IN DMSO, SO BE CAREFUL!

You can print out this pressure-temperature nomograph for predicting boiling points at variable pressures (courtesy of Sigma-Aldrich). An applet is also available for making predictions.

Ever had to babysit a dropwise addition for hours on end? Not in the Getzler lab! We've got a nice syringe pump. This document contains the diameters of various syringes.

The University of Edinburgh Chemical Engineering Department used to have a great page on azetrope properties that could be queried in a very useful way, but I think Wikipedia ate it. Why have you abandoned us, Jack Ponton?

Image modified from a public domain item (Wikipedia).

The lab uses an mBraun UniLab. Available documents:

• Operation of touch screen (6.2 Mb pdf)

• Protocol for box use

You probably know what Ac and Ph syand for, but what about Ts, BPOC, TROC?

For that matter, what is TRIS? Or Dess-Martin Periodonane?

Check out this document from Hans Reich at UW Madison (thanks to department alum Paul Bonvallet!).

New to Schlenk? Dr. Borys made a survival guide.

National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)

Out to Innovate (NOGLSTP)

American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

American Chemical Society (ACS)

The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) runs a cool website with tons of resources for undergraduate researchers called WebGURU. Check it out!

A nice resource put together by some folks at Cal State Northridge that  makes explicit many unsaid things about grad school. Chemistry, like all fields, has its own quirks, but this is a great starting point.