CH233H links
Course Links for CH 233H
Links to information and material used in class.
Chapter 13-16
Order and disorder in crystals
NIST Webbook (invaluable source of thermodynamic and other data)
Chapter 19
Volta's Pile (1800) (Wikipedia)
Standard Electrode Potentials (Wikipedia)
YouTube video demonstrating catastrophic failure of a lithium-ion battery.
A report on IBM making a recent advance in lithium-air batteries.
A manufacturer that uses the chloralkali process.
Chapter 21
Solubility table (Wikipedia)
Metal ion hydration in a crystal
Quartz structure; a simpler less detailed interactive structure.
The Museum of Glass in Tacoma.
Crown ether complexes of alkali metals.
Proteins that complex to K+ or Ca+2 and discussion: page 1, page 2, page 3 from the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB), maintainer of the Protein Data Bank.
Structures of different forms of carbon.
Chapter 23
A translation of Agricola's De Re Metallica (Project Gutenberg). Herbert Hoover (yes the US President) and his wife were the translators.
Video of a blast furnace, used in smelting iron
Dr. Nafshun showing the thermite reaction.
Colors in transition metal compounds: Wikipedia page.
The basics of transition metal electronic structure in determining color of metal compounds.
Chapter 24
3-D structures of transition metal complexes in different geometries.
The Biochemical Periodic Table
Compare to a Periodic Table arranged by natural abundance of the elements on Earth.
Chapter 26
A page showing different ways of drawing organic chemical structures
A page illustrating structural features common in organic molecules.
Petroleum analysis by GC and GC/MS. From the Amaerican Association of Petroleum Geologists.
The hydrocarbon lakes of Titan (a moon of Saturn).
Enantiomiers (a couple examples)
A (very) quick explanation of the math involved in both Molecular Orbital and Valence Bond Theory (review from Chapter 11)
The Orbitron: pictorial and other information about atomic & molecular orbitals
Molecular Orbital descriptions of different organic molecules:
Chapter 27
Nucleophiles and Electrophiles
Chapter 28
Photosynthesis: Wikipedia page
Organic chemistry in CO2 binding and glucose synthesis
Composition of triglycerides from different sources
Fatty Acid Biosynthesis and creation of complex natural products
Micelles and the Lipid Bilayer
Terpenes (Wikipedia)
Biosynthesis of Sterols (OSU login required)
Amino acid structures from Wikipedia
A small peptide with an alpha helix
A small peptide with a beta sheet (and an alpha helix)
The structure of hemoglobin and different aspects of structure