Spring 2026 Lecture (MAN 103) Tue, Thu 8 - 915 am
Office Hours: Wed 8 - 9am, 12 - 1 pm; Fri 8 - 9 am
Also available other days, times by appointment.
Patrick J. Desrochers Spring 2026 syllabus Daily outline
Manion Hall Rm 303B Link to CHEM 3150 site Required course materials
(501) 450-5936
patrickd@uca.edu
Symmetry tutorials Darmstadt University (S. Immel)
Otterbein University (best tool I've ever found for this)
ChemCompute open-source online computational tool, similar to Gaussian used in P-Chem
using ChemCompute video (O2 example)
electron populations video (singlet vs triplet for O2) evident in MO outfile
Minerals gallery (an Internet Rock Shop)
Mercury (free crystallographic visualization tool) from Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center
Short tutorial on some of the features of Mercury
Downloading/opening CIF files from common journals
Solid crystal E-models (to help you visualize common solid packing patterns)
Materials Project database of downloadable inorganic data about solid materials (esp. helpful for .cif files of minerals, etc.)
IONIC (VIPER online inorganic educational clearinghouse of ideas and tools)
MRSEC (Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, U. of Wisconsin)
Grand orbital table (atomic orbital shapes across a wide array of n and l)
Levitating frogs (caused by strong diamagnetic repulsion in a strong magnetic field)
Ferrofluids in active dampening shock absorbers
Metal foams formed from thermal decomposition of metal-nitrogen compounds (Tappan, B. C. et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, p 6589)
Crystalline (1D & 2D) symmetry in Hungarian needlework (I. Hargatti and G. Lengyel J. Chem. Ed. 1984, p1033 and 1985, p 35)
Dislocations in metallic solids (illustrated with bubble raft) from AlphaPhoenix