Objectives

• IT skills for chemistry students
• Searching for Chemistry Information in Chemical Databases
• Illustrating documents with Chemistry Drawing Software

Task

1. Explore the Named Organic Reactions Collection
   
   
   
2. Then either plan to
   
   A. Add ONE new Named Organic Reactions or Reagent to add to the collection (visit the links below if you cannot think of any reactions), AND follow-up one of the Named Reactions in the collection by finding another example of recent reactions and add them to the system.
   
   or
   
   B. Follow-up six of the Named Reactions in the collection by finding other examples recent reactions and add them to the system (published ideally since 1998). Whilst doing this check the text of the original entry. To correct any mistakes - typing or chemical contact Karl Harrison for password.
   
   
   
3. Use the chemistry database software (right) to:
   1. Research the background information about the reaction
   2. Find two recent examples of the reaction - published ideally since 1998
      
      
4. Draw four illustrations a) general scheme, b) original example, c) & d) two recent example reactions. Use CS ChemDraw to do this and save the four illustrations as .GIF files - suitable for display on the web.
   
   
5. Add the named reactions - a check list is provided to help you organize your work.
   
6. Then get signed off your practical requirement by Dr Karl Harrison
   

Advice

Use one of the four "Named Organic Reaction" web sites below, an organic chemistry text book to choose a new named reaction, or search on google or the like for new organic Reagents.

Then use the Web of Science to look for recent abstracts of research papers which discuss the reaction. More detail about the reaction including chemical equations and reaction schemes can be found by looking at the full paper online (use our chemistry journals link below). Hopefully, this will give you your two recent examples.

The information about original chemistry and reactions can often be found by looking at the other named reaction web sites or following references in the recent papers. If you need to see a chemical equation for a much older paper, then use the Crossfire software to access the Beilstein database. Search this database by using the bibliographical data i.e. Author and Year. Then click on the correct paper by Journal, Volume and page number. You will then see the database info about the article, including substances included in the paper and more importantly reactions (with chemical drawings) of all the chemistry in the research paper, even going back to 1880.

Write notes using MS Word so you can copy easily in to the web submission form. Use CS Chemdraw to construct your drawings, save as a chemdraw file so that it is possible to edit the drawing if necessary.

Links

Oxford's list of all the journal web sites and therefore access to full electronic version of articles

University of Connecticut list of Named Reactions

MonomerChem 's list of Named Reactions

ChemPen's List of Named Reactions

Institute of Chemistry, Skopje, Macedonia list of Named Reactions

There are other Named Organic Reaction web sites try google to find them.