Resources
Here are collection of resources Ubin has collected over the years. This list is maintained as a hopefully useful reference to the reader. Please feel free to e-mail him and make suggestions!NMR
❯ NMR Chemical Shifts of Common Laboratory Solvents as Trace Impurities - J. Org. Chem. 1997 62, 21, 7512-7515
❯ NMR Chemical Shifts of Trace Impurities: Common Laboratory Solvents, Organics, and Gases in Deuterated Solvents Relevant to the Organometallic Chemist - Organometallics 2010, 29, 9, 2176–2179
❯ NMR Chemical Shifts of Trace Impurities: Industrially Preferred Solvents Used in Process and Green Chemistry - a slightly different take on the classical JOC piece; with a special focus on green solvents used in industry. - Org. Process Res. Dev. 2016, 20, 3, 661–667
❯ A Practical Guide to First-Order Multiplet Analysis in 1H NMR Spectroscopy J. Org. Chem. 1994, 59, 15, 4096-4103
❯ Book: Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds 7th Edition
❯ TopSpin: This highly functional program is avaliable free, as long as you can get an academic license (university E-mail is required, and you must use it to make a Bruker account).
Protecting groups
❯ Greene's Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis, Fourth Edition - Classical protecting groups book.❯ Technical Library (white paper) from Gelest (Mitsubushi chemical) - very comprehensive list of silyl protecting groups, various academic references, and conditions for protection and deprotection. (Click on all the side menu's- very useful!)
Meta
❯ Prof. Bouffard resources + links (Ewha) - Collection of useful resources❯ Baran group lab seminars - Collected advanced organic chemistry knowledge
❯ Prof. Myers notes (Chemistry 115 handouts)
❯ Prof. Evans notes (Chemistry 206 handouts)
❯ Prof. Evans twitter account - rich, historical comments and resources
❯ Hans Reich collection (ACS) - A great collection of online resources on organic chemistry by the late Professor Hans J. Reich.
❯ Prof. Bode open source lecture notes
Process chemistry
❯ Pharma Growth Hub - Youtube channel❯ ICH quality guidelines - ICH guidelines, documents, and training videos (watch the training videos!)
Chemistry blogs
❯ Tenderbutton archive (user: tender / password: button) - Dr. Dylan Stiles old blog (kept me sane during graduate school!)❯ Org Prep Daily - Blog kept by legendary "milkshake"
❯ In the Pipeline - Expert commentary on drug discovery and pharma industry by Dr. Derek Lowe
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Chemistry Professors Ubin likes
❯ Sang-gi Lee group (Ewha University, South Korea)
❯ David Y K Chen group (Seoul National University, South Korea)
❯ Bouffard group (Ewha University, South Korea)
❯ Duck Hyun Lee group (Sogang university, South Korea)
❯ Brimble group (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
❯ Wipf group (University of Pittsburgh, United States of America)
Misc
❯ Chemistry Reference Resolver - very handy to find papers using citations. (Worth learning to use!)❯ Tot. Syn. Chemdraw stylesheet - what Ubin uses to draw chemical structures. (Original Google Drive link here)
❯ R/S Chemistry - You think you know how to assign R/S stereocenters? Then test your skills at this website! Created by amazing folks at UCLA!
❯ Chemistry by design; Njardarson group (University of Arizona, United States of America) - great total synthesis study game by Njardarson group; guess reaction products, reagents, and names for named reactions!
❯ Dyeing Reagents for Thin Layer and Paper Chromatography
(Merck, E. (1980)) - amazing list of TLC stain recipes.❯ Also see; Chemistry hall, TLC; quick guide...
❯ Sarpong Group - great collection of resources
❯ Manual for CASIO fx-570ES
- Manual for the best calculator in the world
A.I. Resources
Ubin is currently really really interested in the power of the A.I. Some reading with regards to publishing follows: (all open source articles; can download directly from the ACS websites linked below)❯ Was This Title Generated by ChatGPT? Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Text-Generation Software Programs for Chemists and Chemistry Educators - From J. Chem. Edu.
❯ AI et al.: Machines Are About to Change Scientific Publishing Forever - from ACS Energy Lett.
❯ Best Practices for Using AI When Writing Scientific Manuscripts - from ACS Nano.
note: Ubin has done some experiments with AI with regards to synthetic organic chemistry. The bottom line is, as it stands, ChatGTP (both 3.5 and 4.0), Google Bard, or Bing cannot help with designing or analyzing experiments. In the field of organic chemistry, it simply hallucinates too much. I look foward to much more powerful advances which surely is coming!
Ubin's blog: In process control
Ubin will post things related to chemistry (and otherwise) to his new blog; In Process Control. Please visit! :)
"Wir suchen uns Wege,
Die keiner sonst fand."
"We search for our way,
that no others have found."
-An apt description of science and total synthesis.