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Journals (UMN)

Electronic Journals

Web of Science

American Chemical Society

Division of Inorganic Chemistry Newsletters

Scifinder at UMN

Wash U Links

Department of Chemistry

Chemistry Facilities

WUSTL Chemistry Library (links)

Presentations & Lab Advice

Advice for Scientists on How to Give a Good Talk, Part 1 (by Prof. Tolman)

Advice for Maintaining a Lab Notebook

“Why bad presentations happen to good people”

Todd Reubold’s “Top Tips for Superstar Presentations” video

“Deliver Better Presentations” from U. Leicester

Attributes of an Excellent Graduate Student

The Heilmeir Catechism (for determining if a project is worth doing)

Collection of guides to successful scientific communication, written by MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering Communication Fellows

References

Protein Data Bank

CRC Handbook

Cambridge Structural Database

Bordwell pKa Table

Spectral Database for Organic Compounds (SDBS)

Organic Synthesis Portal

Not Voodoo: Demystifying Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Penn. State Bioinorganic Workshops

Quartzy

Nomograph (flash req.)

Safety & Chemical Waste

UMN Joint Safety Team

DEHS Chemical Waste

Tolman Group JST Safety Video

Tolman Lab Standard Operating Procedures 

The Safety Net (site created by A. Miller and I. Tonks)

Academic

Avoiding Plagiarism

ACS Policy on Theses

Other Resources

Resources for diversity & inclusion (Strike for Black Lives Page)

“Becoming Anti-Racist: Being a better advisor, lab mate, and friend to Black colleagues” Slide deck by graduate students Angeline Dukes and Elena Dominguez alongside faculty member Dr. Autumn Ivy

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