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.

Authors
Author: 
Twiss-Brooks, Andrea
Organization: 
University of Chicago Library
Learning Objectives: 
Familiarity with basic library resources for finding solublity of common organic compounds in standard solvents
Audience: 
Bachelor (Basic)
Level of Expertise: 
Beginner
Date Document Created: 
Fri, 2010-04-02
Language(s): 
English

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.

Authors
Author: 
Twiss-Brooks, Andrea
Organization: 
University of Chicago Library
Learning Objectives: 
Familiarity with common library resources for optical rotation data
Audience: 
Bachelor (Basic)
Level of Expertise: 
Beginner
Date Document Created: 
Fri, 2010-04-02
Language(s): 
English

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.

Authors
Author: 
Baysinger, Grace
Organization: 
Stanford University
Learning Objectives: 
To show data entry format for searching spectral peaks, eliminate heteroatoms, and evaluating search results.
Audience: 
Bachelor (Basic)
Audience: 
Faculty/Lecturer
Audience: 
Librarian/Information Specialist
Level of Expertise: 
Beginner
Date Document Created: 
Wed, 2010-03-24
Language(s): 
English

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.

Authors
Author: 
Baysinger, Grace; Keller, Dave Dr.
Organization: 
Stanford University
Learning Objectives: 
To develop search strategies using MP/BP Data, heteroatoms, functional groups, ring data, spectral data, and "family data for substances to identify unknowns.
Audience: 
Bachelor (Basic)
Audience: 
Faculty/Lecturer
Audience: 
Librarian/Information Specialist
Level of Expertise: 
Beginner
Date Document Created: 
Wed, 2010-03-24
Language(s): 
English

Chemistry 130 Search Tips (Winter 2008)

Summary showing how to convert lab data into search strategies to identify unknown organic compounds.

Authors
Author: 
Baysinger, Grace
Organization: 
Stanford University
Author: 
Keller, Dave
Learning Objectives: 
How to search by CAS Registry Number, MP, BP, MW, Number of Atoms, Molecular Elements, MF, Substructure Fragments, IR Peak, NMR Peak, NMR Spectra-Predicted, C-13 Peak, C-13 Spectra-Predicted
Audience: 
Bachelor (Basic)
Audience: 
Faculty/Lecturer
Audience: 
Librarian/Information Specialist
Level of Expertise: 
Beginner
Date Document Created: 
Tue, 2008-01-01
Language(s): 
English