Resources and Links
Laboratory and instrumentation
Our group is equiped with state-of-the-art instrumentation to perform organic and organometallic synthesis, inert-atmosphere synthesis and catalysis, electrosynthesis and electroanalytical techniques, and flow battery systems. Some instruments are highlighted below:
Department Core Facilities, Institutes, and Centers
IMSERC (Integrated Molecular Structure Education and Research Center) for NMR spectroscopy, Mass spectrometry, X-ray crystallography, and other state-of-the-art instrumentation
ISEN (Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern)
CCSS (Center for Catalysis and Surface Science)
REACT (Reactor Engineering and Catalyst Testing) facility
CLP (Chemistry for Life Processes Institute)
IIN (International Institute for Nanotechnology)
LEAP (Center for Light Energy Activated Processes)
NU-HTA (Northwestern High Throughput Analysis laboratory)
PCE (Proteomics Center of Excellence)
NU-LED (NU Laser and electronics design)
SAFETY (safety in the laboratory, chemical hygiene, waste, incident reporting, etc.)
Responsible conduct of research
Chemistry Links
American Chemical Society (ACS)
The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry
Chemical Data
Solvents (properties, green solvents and chromatography)
Electrophile/nucleophile reactivity (Mayr, poster 2016, poster 2020, organocatalyst and organometallics)
Protecting groups
eROS
Pharmaceutical drugs
Agrochemicals
Techniques in synthetic chemistry and electrosynthesis
NotVodoo
CV beginner's guide
Electro-organic synthesis beginner's guide
Schlenck line
Organic reactions
Organic Chemistry Portal (OCP)
Named reactions (Taber, SynArchive, ReactionFlash App)
Total synthesis (Trauner, Docherty and Taber, SynArchive, Natural products)
NMR Spectroscopy
1H NMR shifts, 13C NMR shifts, J(H-H), J(C–C) and J(C–H)
Multinuclear (19F NMR shifts and coupling constants, 31P NMR shits and coupling constants, 11B NMR shifts)
Multiplicities