CHEM: 2410 Organic Chemistry Laboratory: Part 1: Chemical Table
Assignment
See your lab assignment for complete instructions and an example.
For this part of your assignment, you will be given the names of three chemical compounds. You need to use at least two sources on this page to find the necessary information about your assigned compounds.
If you have any questions, please ask your TA or a librarian.
Web Sources for Chemical Table
You will need to use at least one web source for your chemical table assignment. The following sources are recommended. If you have any questions, please contact a librarian for assistance.
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Combined Chemical Dictionary This link opens in a new windowIncludes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. Contains all those compounds published in: Dictionary of organic compounds (200,000 records), Dictionary of natural products (120,000 records), Dictionary of inorganic and organometallic compounds (90,000 records), Dictionary of pharmacological agents (30,000 records), Dictionary of analytical reagents (14,000 records). Also available in print as the Dictionary of Organic Compounds.
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics This link opens in a new windowProvides wide coverage of data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds. Also available in print.
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Merck Index Online This link opens in a new windowAn authoritative and reliable source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals, the Merck Index* Online offers the same highly authoritative information as the print edition in a convenient and easily searchable full text database. It contains over 11,500 monographs – including historic records not available in the print edition. The Merck Index* Online will be updated regularly with accurate information curated by experts.
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Reaxys This link opens in a new windowChemical and physical properties and synthetic procedures for several million compounds. Not available in print.
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ChemSpiderChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 26 million structures from hundreds of data sources. Not available in print.
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PubChem This link opens in a new windowPubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubChem is a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public. PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules.
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Sigma-AldrichThis is a commerical website that sells biochemical and organic chemical products, but it also provides some useful information about the compounds they sell. Also available in print.
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Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial MaterialsCombines data on toxicology, flammability, reactivity, explosive potential, and regularity information for over 28,000 substances.
Citations
Use the following examples as templates to cite your sources for Part 1. Find more examples here, or contact your librarian for assistance.
Databases - See how the examples below, taken from the ACS example for "online databases", shows how you can extrapolate from the examples in the guide. The base structure is:
- Compound (CAS RN, Any other recommended ID). Databases Name. Publisher. URL.
So:
- 4-Fluoro-2-chlorotoluene (CAS RN: 452-73-3). CHEMnetBASE: Combined Chemical Dictionary. CRC Press. https://ccd.chemnetbase.com/
- Trazodone (CAS RN: 19794-93-5). The Merck Index Online. Royal Society of Chemistry. https://merckindex.rsc.org/monographs/m11010
- Rotenone (Reaxys ID: 99070, CAS RN: 83-79-4). Reaxys. Elsevier. https://www.reaxys.com/
- Rotenone (PubChem CID: 6758, CAS RN: 83-79-4). PubChem. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/6758
SDS - as a standardized resource, it gets a separate, specific listing - see "Safety Data Sheets". Standardized format is:
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[Title] ([CAS Registry Number]). [Product Stock or Catalog Number], [Revision (Rev.) or Version (Ver.) Number]. [Manufacturer]: [Location], [Date]. [URL]
So, as a direct example:
- 1,4'-Bipiperidine, 99% (CAS RN: 4897-50-1). B22028; Rev. 3; Thermo Fisher Scientific: Ward Hill, MA, March 27, 2024. https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/B22028.14
