Search Skills for Numeric Databases, General Overview, Physical Property Searches, Predicting Properties, Spectral Data Searches
Finding Solubility Information for Organic Compounds
Brief (one page) handout for beginning organic chemistry laboratory students on finding solubility of common organic compounds in standard solvents.
Finding Optical Rotation Data for Organic Compounds
Brief (one page) handout for beginning organic chemistry laboratory students on locating optical rotation data for common organic compounds.
SDBS Integrated Spectral Database for Organic Compounds - Sample Search
Sample search for a sophomore level organic chemistry class showing how to search using spectral peaks and heteroatoms to identify an unknown.
Converting Lab Data to Search Strategies
This handout summarizes ways students in a sophomore level organic chemistry class can search data from the lab (e.g, heteratom information, physical properties, spectral data) in Integrated Spectral Database of Organic Compounds (SDBS), Properties of Organic Chemistry (POC), Dictionary of Organic Chemistry (DOC), Reaxys, and SciFinder.
Chemistry 130 Search Tips (Winter 2008)
Summary showing how to convert lab data into search strategies to identify unknown organic compounds.