Some practical tips, tricks, and tools for chemistry I picked up in grad school
Synthesis
Quick Resources
Cooling baths
TLC stains
pKa tables
Mayr nucleophilicity tables - (pdf)
NMR Impurity Chart(Organometallics)
The Big NMR Impurity Chart (OPR&D)
Online References
Baran Group Seminars - Lots of short cheat sheets on various topics (n.b some of the older links are dead)
Shenvi Group Seminars
The Reich Collection - Now called “Organic Chemistry Data” and maintained by the ACS DOC
Electron Pushing in Organic Chemistry
Named Rules and Effects in Organic Chemistry
Not Voodoo - Demystifying synthesis magic
AIST Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
Reddit r/Chempros Megathread
Tools
Eluent strength translator (solvent swaps for flash)
MS adduct calculator
Chemistry reference resolver
Sigma solvent nomograph
Azeotrope finder
Reaction finder
Practice practice practice
Denksport - Retrosynthesis fill-in-the-blanks
Synthesis Club Roadmap Problems - Retrosynthesis fill-in-the-blanks
Boydston, Lalic, and Michael Problems - 95 arrow pushing problems
Dave Evans’s Problem Generator - Evans and Evan-type mechanism problems
Books
Purification of Laboratory Chemicals
Computational Chemistry
Quick Resources
Common Gaussian error messanges and how to fix them
Tools
Psi4 - Open-source quantum chemistry
PySCF - Open-source collection of electronic structure modules powered by Python
Basis Set Exchange - Basis set parameter
Blog Posts
Joaquin Barroso’s “The ‘Art’ of Finding Transition States”+ Part 2