Librarian: Marjorie Peters
Office: SRC 3034
Phone: (630) 942-2337
E-mail: petersm@cod.edu
Find Your Named Reaction
- Textbooks There are many organic chemistry textbooks on reserve at the circulation desk (Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry, Morrison and Boyd's Organic Chemistry or March's Advanced Organic Chemistry are good choices) or in the General collection numbers QD 251.2 and QD 261. Sometime entire chapters are devoted to a specific reaction, giving mechanisms and instructions on how to produce specific molecules using the reaction in the laboratory.
- General Collection titles
Organic Syntheses Based on Name Reactions by A. Hassner and C. Stumer. General QD262 .H324 2002
Named Organic Reactions by Thomas Laue and Andreas Plagens. In General QD291 .L3513 2005 and on Reserve
- Ebooks The Library has purchased several useful titles related to named reactions. These are available from home if you have a library card:
Name Reactions. 4th ed. by Jie Jack Li
Name Reactions and Reagents in Organic Synthesis 2nd ed. by Bradford P. Mundy, Michael G. Ellerd, Frank G. Favaloro
Organic Syntheses Based on Name Reactions - A Practical Guide to 750 Transformations (3rd Edition) by A. Hassner and I. Namboothiri
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Editions: 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Different content in each edition. Use the index to each edition to check for examples of your named reaction. Reference TP 9 .E685
- Contemporary Drug Synthesis. For those intererested in researching a pharmaceutical, a bit of history and synthesis, with references. Use the index to see if your reaction is named. Often, it is only one in a series of steps needed to produce a drug. On reserve for class
- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry. 4 vols. Encyclopedia articles on many named reactions. Reference QD 4 .M33 1997
- World of Chemistry. Encyclopedia entries on many of the major reactions giving history and significance of major named reactions. Reference QD 33 .W873 2000
- Google Advanced Search for Patents. Search for a named reaction of interest to see how it has been used in a patented chemical process. Can also search by patent number. Program will search patents from 1776 to recent months. Patent image available without loading special software. http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search
History of Reaction
- Great Chemists . Reference QD 21 .F35
- The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists: Chemists . Reference QD 21 .B48
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography . 18 vols. Reference Q 141 .D5 (use index in v. 16 to find biographical information on the person the reaction is named for)
- Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists online
Other Sources by Name of Reaction Product (NMR, IR, Significance)
- Aldrich Library of FT-IR Spectra . 3 v. Reference QD 96 .I5 P66 1989
- Aldrich Library of 13C and 1H FT NMR Spectra . 3 v. Reference QC462.85 .A44 1993
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Editions: 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Different content in each edition. Use the index to each edition to check for examples of your reaction product. Reference TP 9 .E685
- Dictionary of Organic Compounds. 6th ed. 9 vols.
Physical data, bibliography listing sources for synthesis, derivatives, and full reviews of the molecule. Reference QD 246 .D5 1996
- Knovel Interactive Library This database is a cross-searchable collection of electronic books covering many subjects in technology, engineering, safety/environment, science, chemistry and physics and much more. Includes Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, Patty's Toxicology, and over 800 other titles.
- Chemical Compounds. 3 vols. Basic introduction to 180 of the most important organic and inorganic molecules. Historical background and useful bibliographies. Reference QD471 .C44 2006 or e-book version
- Contemporary Drug Synthesis. For those researching a pharmaceutical, a bit of history and synthesis, with references. On reserve for class
- 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: a Reference Guide. Reference TP 9 .M94 2007 or e-book version <br
- Google Scholar . Use the Advanced Search feature to search for articles and patents related to your molecule (example: "benzoic acid" synthesis) Look to the right to see if the article is available in PDF or HTML text format. If not, make notes for Interlibrary Loan! http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search
Safety, Health and Environmental Effects
Special Help with Google
It can be useful to put multiword terms in quotation marks to produce a phrase search; "Cannizzaro Reaction". Put any terms that you want to retrieve next to the phrase with a + sign: +history. If you want laboratory information from university chemistry departments, add this string: site:.edu
Interlibrary Loan
- Use Interlibrary Loan to get books and articles from other libraries. For books, be sure to get author, title and date whenever possible. For journal articles, bibliographic citations in the chemical literature tend to give abbreviated titles. Talk to Marge if you need help finding the full journal title when requesting an article. Chemical citations often do not give the title of the article or full range of pages, so you will need to fill in a topic: use parentheses: (About name of molecule) and starting page number with a + after it. Guide to chemistry journal abbreviations from University of British Columbia will be helpful.
- Interlibrary loan of books can take 10 business days and articles may take 5 business days, so give yourself time to get these materials.
Citing Sources
The Library's Citing Sources Guide
MLA and APA styles with links to helpful websites and a citation formatting program. Look at Noodlebib if you need help formatting sources.
http://www.cod.edu/library/research/Citenet.htm
Revised September 2011
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