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

Organic Reaction Mechanisms (ORM - on the computer desktops)

- animations of reactions, including reaction energy profiles
IR Tutor - on the computer desktops

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

Chem TV (CD checked out from the TA desk)

- animations of reactions
- open the folders (directories) to find the specific reaction or structure topic of interest

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

- various review topics, animations, and even games

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Chemistry programs available for purchase on the web:

Organic Reaction Mechanisms (ORM) ( http://www.falconsoftware.com )

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 )

ChemWeb - ( http://www.softshell.com/free/indexx.html )

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