Chemistry Demonstrations for the Web Science Workshop

Possible Sites to Demo

• Chemfinder

http://chemfinder.camsoft.com

Search MEK as an acronym for Methyl Ethyl Ketone
Note the variety of ways in which this source allows you to search and the many sites on the Web that it indexes (Scroll down on the MEK page.)

• WWW Chemical Structures Database

http://schiele.organik.uni-erlangen.de/services/webmol.html

PROBLEM OF CHEMICAL NOMENCLATURE ON THE WEB:

Search MEK (this won't work), then 2-butanone (this does)

When the results come back (should get 2), click on the second entry to bring back the PDB file and when the image appears, change the display to ball and stick view.

• NIST Chemistry WebBook

http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry

Look for 91-56-5 as a CAS Registry Number

• NCI-3D Database via ChemScape

http://www.mdli.co.uk/chemscape/clientserver/product.html Search 91-56-5: gives nothing
Then search 91565: gives CAS No. 4455-65-6 (Reg no. used with a different meaning).

• NMR Information Server at U of Florida

http://micro.ifas.ufl.edu/

Use the "Search" option to look for the word "birthday" to learn how to play "Happy Birthday to You" on an NMR Spectrometer! (It should be in the file news.html that is one of the items retrieved.)

• Look at IU Molecular Structure Center's ReciprocalNet