Electronic Resources

Here we have collected a summary of our favorite resources. If you have suggestions let us know!

Research Resources

Electrochemistry :

• Open access website SOP4CV by Dr. Daniel Graham
• Open access A Practical Beginner's Guide to Cyclic Voltammetry  (J. Chem. Educ.  2018, 95 , 197–206)
• Elements of Molecular and Biomolecular Electrochemistry by Jean-Michel Savéant and Cyrille Costentin. SMC has a copy.
• Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd Edition by Bard and Faulkner. SMC has a copy.
• (Un)suitability of the use of pH buffers in biological, biochemical and environmental studies and their interaction with metal ions – a review by Helena Soares (RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 30989)

NMR

• Overview of NMR and extensive resource:  Multinuclear NMR  webpage
• The 2010 paper  NMR Chemical Shifts of Trace Impurities  ( Organometallics  2010,  29 , 2176–2179) is essential. It allows for quick assignment of unexpected peaks and correct referencing of the solvent peak

Synthesis

• The Schlenk Survival Guide  by Dr. Andryj Borys

  

• Growing Quality Crystals (for single-crystal analysis)
• Practical suggestions for better crystal structures (Müller, Crystallography Reviews, 2019, 15:1, 57-83)
• Example of a typical Swern oxidation procedure:  Aminoalkynyldithianes. A new class of calcium channel blocker  ( J. Med. Chem.  1991, 34, 5, 1585–1593)
• On Byproducts and Side Products  ( Org. Process Res. Dev.  2012, 16, 12, 1877), discusses the difference between these two terms
• Drying of Organic Solvents: Quantitative Evaluation of the Efficiency of Several Desiccants  ( J. Org. Chem.  2010, 75, 24, 8351–8354)
• For purification of n-bromosuccinimide (NBS), see experimental section of  N-Bromosuccinimide. I. Allylic Bromination, a General Survey of Reaction Variables  ( J. Am. Chem. Soc.  1959, 81, 18, 4863–4873), or this  PDF snippet
• How to determine the effective concentration of alkyllithims:  Titration of alkyllithiums with a simple reagent to a blue endpoint  ( J. Organomet. Chem. , 1997,  542 , 281-283)
• Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis : a very comprehensive summary of named organic reactions. SMC owns a few copies.
• Purification of Laboratory Chemicals  by Armarego and Chai; web version here

XPS

• XPS Simplified webbook for each element

• Handbook of X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Detecting catalyst decomposition & transformation

• A review of the problem of distinguishing true homogeneous catalysis from soluble or other metal-particle heterogeneous catalysis under reducing conditions (J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem., 2003, 198, 317–341)
• Distinguishing Homogeneous from Heterogeneous Water Oxidation Catalysis when Beginning with Polyoxometalates (ACS Catal. 2014, 4, 3, 909–933)
• On decomposition, degradation, and voltammetric deviation: the electrochemist's field guide to identifying precatalyst transformation (Chem. Soc. Rev., 2019, 48, 2927-2945)
• Solar fuels generation and molecular systems: is it homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysis? (Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2338-2356)

• The Dark Side of Molecular Catalysis: Diimine–Dioxime Cobalt Complexes Are Not the Actual Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalyst in Acidic Aqueous Solutions (ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 6, 3727–3737)

Presenting Science

Preparing Effective Scientific Figures

• A Brief Guide to Designing Effective Figures for the Scientific Paper (Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 4343–4346)
• Graphical Excellence (J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 12, 2118–2120)
• Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833)
• How to Display Data Badly (The American Statistician, 1984, 38,137-147) - great guide for what not to do

​Writing

• Write Like a Chemist (Oxford University Press, Robinson et al.) covers good technical writing, prepration of research articles, writing winning grants, and making effective posters. SMC owns two physical copies!
• Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper (Adv. Mater. 2004, 16, No. 15) by George Whitesides
• Unofficial Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship grant writing guide prepared by the EU-funded project “Net4Mobility”
• How to write grant proposals PowerPoint overview from the junior portion of the 2019 Consortium for Artifical Photophotosynthesis Meeting

Giving Effective Presentations

• PowerPoint overview from the junior portion of the 2019 Consortium for Artifical Photophotosynthesis Meeting

Software

DigiElch 8: SMC owns two copies of DigiElch 8, which is very useful for simulating cyclic voltammograms, testing mechanisms, and for gaining electrochemical intuition in silico. Ask a member of Sascha's lab for access to the hardware dongle.

Mercury: this free software is useful for viewing of single crystal structures and generating simulated powder X-ray diffraction patterns. To access full functionality, contact Uppsala University's library resource team (email) and ask for the site number and license key. They will provide installation instructions.

Reference Managers: The software EndNote is available from our administration, and the free software Mendeley is a great alternative. These programs enable organization of research articles as well as plugins for citing papers in manuscript drafts.

Web Resources

Chemistry Reference Resolver : type in a citation, hit enter, and the website will try its absolute best to take you to that article's webpage. Great for tracking down papers from a list of references!

Energy Unit Conversions tool by the Halas Nanophotonics Group

WebCSD : use to find and download single crystal structures