Amino Acid Structure

This link has a nice Isoelectric point calculator amongst other things...thus my students should find it useful.

http://employees.csbsju.edu/hjakubowski/classes/ch331/protstructure/olprotein-aminoacid.html

Dr. M.

Baeyer-Villiger oxidation

Here is a nice link for a reaction we'll learn about that IS NOT covered in Smith's Organic Chemistry (except for Problem 14.54 on page 533).

http://orgchem.chem.uconn.edu/namereact/villiger.html

:) Enjoy!

Dr. M.

Organic structure I am looking for

Well, since we don't have SciFinder , I cannot do a very great search for this compound...does anyone out there (including my Orgo students) know of any references to this compound? If so, please let me know.

Thanks!

Sarcasm-and if read properly, good advice on what not to do when writing a paper

Okay, so I was searching what other Organic Chem bloggers were writing about this morning and I came across this pearl on "Carbon-Based Curiosities" (http://www.coronene.com/blog/).

For my Organic students (and future Organic lab students) please pay attention to make sure you don't end up obeying every rule Prof. Murray cites. Oh, here is the link to the original editorial as well:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ac2000169

Cheers!

Open Access Journals

Curly Arrow has a neat little discussion about the PLoS journals here: http://curlyarrow.blogspot.com/search/label/Science%20Ethics

And here is a nice link to about 90 open-access chemistry journals (most are from Europe or Asia).

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=61

Here is ChemistryCentral: http://www.chemistrycentral.com/

Molecules appears to be one of the longer running journals of this type: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules

Please support these open-access journals!

Okay students, time to rock n' roll!

Chemistry Drawing tool

Students should be very interested in accessing such a drawing tool for reports and such...here the download page for a freeware I have on my computers:

http://www.acdlabs.com/resources/freeware/chemsketch/