Links
The promised problem sets and challenges are linked below. The answers are available through the questions, after a couple days.
Organic 1, problem set 1. problem set 2.
For the chemistry student (others could go there too, I guess).
A very interesting article on the history of aspirin just came across my desk. You can find the article at this site, one from McGill University in Montreal.
In case you came here for the Seminar Schedule, here's a link to an old version of that page. The new schedule will replace it as Prof. Schandel and I put it together.
The American Chemical Society. The 'club,' publisher, ruler, etc for chemists. They have plenty of information about careers available there, several pamphlets and books that they'll send to you for free. Some are about preparation for careers or grad school, some about laboratory safety, etc.
If you want to impress your professors with nice chemical structures in your lab reports, download the ISI Draw program. It works very much like the ChemDraw in the Mac lab. (Clicking on the ChemDraw will get to their website where you can get a demo version of that software. It won't help you in your reports, as you can't use the ChemDraw demo to copy and paste.)
A good program for visualization of PDB's (Protein DataBase structures) is found at the RasMol homepage. This program allows you to rotate these PDB files quickly. Potentially good for presentations. You can do this real time rotation using a plug-in for your web browser called Chime, (click to download). You'll have to install whatever software you download, then probably choose the plugin or application once you try to view the images. The work involved is probably best spent on your own computer.
To take a look at some simple molecules using these applications, go to the Virtual Student Model Kit (at Western Washington University). There are other links there to get to more molecules.
An interesting set of essays is available at Elemental Discoveries. A somewhat different set of ideas can be found at Hyle, a journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry.
A great safety resource can be found at Hazard.com. Formally in Vermont, many MSDS's are there as well as other safety links and information.
Miscellaneous:
Related to chemistry only in that it might rain on the way to lab is the Weather Underground's Worcester forecast. Or, you could relax and examine the artwork at the WebMuseum. Another neat site is Doonesbury.com.
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