Organic chemistry programs available in the Chemistry Commons
(Science Building 1, Room 221)

(The room is staffed by chemistry graduate students, who also serve as tutors.)

Organic Reaction Mechanisms (ORM)

- animations of reactions, including reaction energy profiles

Chem TV (CD checked out from the TA desk)

- animations of reactions

Available at Pennsylvania State University (the other PSU) on the web:

http://courses.chem.psu.edu/ChemTV/Index.htm

Chem TV / Choices (CD checked out from the TA desk)

- various review topics, animations, and even games

Organic Nomenclature

- practice problems on naming organic compounds

ChemDraw and Chem 3D

- drawing of molecular structures, including 3D
- you can download your own free copy of ChemDraw (see below)

Spartan

- molecular modeling and calculations

IR Tutor

- an excellent introduction to light, absorption properties, and spectra
- includes numerous examples of infrared spectra with explanations

Spectra Deck

- complete sets of spectra for numerous representative compounds
- each compound has an IR, H-NMR, C-NMR, MS, plus additional data

Spectrum Simulator

- see the H-NMR spectrum as you create a molecular structure

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Chemistry programs available for purchase on the web:

ChemOffice ( http://www.camsoft.com )

ChemTV ( http://catalog.jbpub.com/detail.cfm?i=0593-4 )

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Chemistry 3D visualization programs free on the web:

Chime - ( http://www.mdli.com )

RasMol - ( http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/ )

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Chemistry drawing programs free on the web:

ISIS/Draw - ( http://www.mdli.com )

ChemDraw - ( http://chemstore.cambridgesoft.com/software/category.cfm?group=free )