Which Chemistry Resource is the Most Useful?

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  • čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
  • Chemistry can seem intimidating, but there are a lot of resources that make it easier to understand. In this video, I discuss numerous resources which have been valuable to myself and others when doing chemistry. Are there any good resources I missed? Drop a comment down below so that other mouth-pipetters can reap the benefits of your valuable experience.
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    Links
    Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/
    PubChem - pubchem.ncbi.n...
    Chemistry LibreTexts - chem.libretext...
    PubPeer - pubpeer.com/
    Reaxys - www.reaxys.com/
    Scifinder - scifinder-n.ca...
    The Chemical Rubber Company Handbook (pdfs can be found)
    Mayr's Database - www.cup.lmu.de...
    Organic Chemistry Portal - www.organic-ch...
    Google Patents - patents.google...
    Google Scholar - scholar.google...
    Molview - molview.org/
    Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer - wikipedia.chem...
    Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (pdfs can be found)
    SDBS - sdbs.db.aist.g...
    Bordwell pKa Table - organicchemist...
    The Merck Index (pdfs can be found)
    Organic Syntheses - www.orgsyn.org/
    NIST - webbook.nist.gov/
    Ligma Baldrich Nomograph - rb.gy/h8j259
    NotVoodooX - www.chem.roche...
    Scihub (mirrors change sometimes) - sci-hub.se
    eEROS - onlinelibrary....
    Libgen - libgen.is/
    Chemistry by Design - chemistrybydes...
    Reactionflash - www.elsevier.c...

Komentáře • 154

  • @Kosm64
    @Kosm64 Před měsícem +66

    Vogel's Practical Organic Chemistry is my GOAT. I'll be sure to look at Mayr's and the Bordwell pKa table this upcoming term... those would have saved me many headaches in the past!

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +11

      True I forgot to include Vogel - another one of the greats

  • @Nerdwithoutglasses
    @Nerdwithoutglasses Před měsícem +29

    This video alone is a S-tier resource itself. A meta-resource featuring important resources. Indeed really helpful !!

  • @petevenuti7355
    @petevenuti7355 Před měsícem +71

    When I first clicked on this video it said the length was 2½ hours, but then I was relieved to see that was just the add that I had to watch first.

    • @NathanaelNewton
      @NathanaelNewton Před měsícem

      I have no idea why someone would do that.. unless they're purposely trying to tank their video analytics 😅

    • @petevenuti7355
      @petevenuti7355 Před měsícem

      @@NathanaelNewton I know sometimes you can choose when the interruptions occur but I don't think he has any choice over what adds Google puts.
      I'm just glad to skip ad button hadn't crashed!!!
      I hate it when it crashes and you can't skip ads and you have to reboot your whole system..

    • @NathanaelNewton
      @NathanaelNewton Před měsícem +1

      @@petevenuti7355 I meant the person running the ad, because all ads are actually CZcams videos, if they want the video to be recommended by the algorithm.. the worst thing you can possibly do is run it as an ad that people will click skip and only watch 10 or 15 seconds.

  • @johndeaux8815
    @johndeaux8815 Před měsícem +46

    *7. Ethics Approval*
    _Yes_
    Has the same energy as my high school tests in subjects I wasn't interested in 😂

    • @musicobsessive123
      @musicobsessive123 Před měsícem +6

      its giving 'we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong'

  • @maxdoner4528
    @maxdoner4528 Před měsícem +163

    Honestly its pretty easy, the best chemistry ressource must surely be oil!

  • @LuxAureus
    @LuxAureus Před měsícem +32

    Did we up and forget about the ScienceMadness forums? That's pretty much the social media for chemists both professional and novice alike, lol.

    • @PrInCeShAdE1
      @PrInCeShAdE1 Před měsícem +3

      Up for scimadness! They also have great instructions for proper disposal of most common reagents

  • @0000Sierra117
    @0000Sierra117 Před měsícem +21

    I love the CRC handbook, my late grandfather was a physicist, and when I was growing up, my bedroom was the room that used to be his study, and many of his books were still there including the CRC handbook. I used to read it, and will obviously most of it went over my head, there were sections on first aid and responding to chemical fires, that I absorbed completely. I myself work in physics as a lab technician now, but that book will always hold a special place in my heart

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +6

      That is a great story - thanks for sharing :)

    • @micnorton9487
      @micnorton9487 Před měsícem

      THE HANDBOOK,, I got my first one by stealing it from a high school chemistry classroom while I was a pipefitters helper working on the heating and cooling systems... there's TONS of interesting stuff beyond all the math and physics tables,, I learned organic chemistry nomenclature and the elements and lots of other things... then I lost it in a bust (long story),, and since I missed the book so much I stole another one from Walter science library at the UM Minneapolis,, dumping it out the window of the 5th floor of the stacks because they had a walk through theft deterrent rig to stop people from taking reference books...

  • @PyromaniacLVI
    @PyromaniacLVI Před měsícem +22

    Chemspider is great and free if you know the structure but not the name of more crazy organic molecules. You can draw the molecules and it gives you the name.

  • @wrobelinformations4793
    @wrobelinformations4793 Před měsícem +6

    You can find more stuff on Wikipedia if you switch languages

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +7

      This is another really good piece of advice - especially German Wikipedia

  • @Scaredy_cat811
    @Scaredy_cat811 Před měsícem +25

    pubchem my beloved

  • @darkdestroyer2761
    @darkdestroyer2761 Před měsícem +9

    Gotta love when you post a new video, you're literally my favourite channel

  • @Aliceintraining
    @Aliceintraining Před měsícem +7

    I still use the DOT hazmat response booklet that I "borrowed" from work before I left many years ago. mostly because, it is the most relevant resource that I need to avoid getting hurt. lol.

  • @DanoOuto
    @DanoOuto Před měsícem +5

    18:24 what an incredible company name

    • @strategicbacon7349
      @strategicbacon7349 Před měsícem +2

      Their actual name is sigma aldrich but they're known in the community as ligma baldrich.

  • @regulatorjohnson.
    @regulatorjohnson. Před měsícem +29

    Rhodium suspiciously absent

    • @sIippo
      @sIippo Před měsícem +12

      the hive is still buzzing

    • @ashe1.070
      @ashe1.070 Před měsícem +3

      Rhodium is great for certain things of dubious legality. I find myself reading articles on there from time to time. Some info on there is still useful for stuff that’s not legally questionable too.

  • @ZlDarkAngel6
    @ZlDarkAngel6 Před měsícem +1

    As a non-chemist researcher currently involved in biochemistry and materiales engineering this is an amazing treasure. I might not grasp it's full potential, hopefully yet, the references alone are absolutely worth it while I educate myself. Thanks a lot.

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem

      I hope it does help! Make sure to check out KEGG and BLAST if you are doing biochem!

  • @nickye2864
    @nickye2864 Před měsícem +31

    Thanks but I will just stick to the guy behind the Taco Bell dumpster

  • @arnautarnautsen2564
    @arnautarnautsen2564 Před měsícem +1

    This is REALLY useful: thank you. I'm old, jaded and internet addicted, and even I didn't know some of those. To a new doctoral student, I imagine this is absolute gold.

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 Před měsícem +2

    There should be a giant list of these things for every subject.

  • @rileyh4169
    @rileyh4169 Před měsícem +20

    Where is "Eh, I'll just wing it"?

    • @ares395
      @ares395 Před měsícem +13

      In Eh tier

    • @triple_gem_shining
      @triple_gem_shining Před měsícem +5

      ehF

    • @kaboom4679
      @kaboom4679 Před měsícem +1

      According to legend , he can sometimes be glimpsed on a moonless night , behind the big orange van , in the better class of trailer parks .

    • @129140163
      @129140163 Před měsícem

      That’s in the “HELL NO!” tier.

  • @aidanlooby
    @aidanlooby Před měsícem +4

    Dude why have I not heard of pubpeer? Not me literally using this source everytime I reproduce a cross-coupling reaction from now on

  • @mikegLXIVMM
    @mikegLXIVMM Před měsícem +4

    14:57
    Why not "D" for disappointing? 😛

  • @Mejsiek
    @Mejsiek Před měsícem +3

    For anyone struggling with NMR - be sure to check Reich's NMR collection. Not only he describes a principia of this technique but based on literature precedents he collected useful data, such as chemical shifts or coupling constants for many compounds - proton, carbon, fluorine. Saved me many times! Check whole site because there is more than that.

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem

      Also Pavia’s introduction to spectroscopy - one of the best explanations of NMR and IR imo

    • @annaquark9127
      @annaquark9127 Před měsícem

      Hesse Mayer Zeeh is a book i use a loooooot in Germany....hope there is an English version :)

  • @Anddiew3122
    @Anddiew3122 Před měsícem +2

    I literally just finished all of my lab courses! I wish this list was around sooner

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +3

      This was why I prioritized making this video sooner - I felt bad for hoarding all this knowledge when people could be utilizing it

  • @conlangknow8787
    @conlangknow8787 Před měsícem +2

    I might actually come back to this video in the future when i have an assignment to do, thanks!

  • @sil42as
    @sil42as Před měsícem +2

    I like benchchem for their retrosynthesis planner! It can be hit or miss since it's statistically generated using reaxys data, but if you change the number of possibilities from 5 to like 20 it sometimes comes up with some out of the box ideas.
    Even if their main thing is being a chemical vendor that won't just outright tell you the price of what you wanna buy

  • @tungstenoof
    @tungstenoof Před měsícem +2

    Czako and Kürti's Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis is a pretty good book for learning about reactions, with a section on the mechanism and various examples and variations.

  • @hvycreme
    @hvycreme Před měsícem +5

    academia having a tanty at the accessibility

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +9

      Oh man I’ve never heard tantrum abbreviated like that before

  • @alerikaisattera1465
    @alerikaisattera1465 Před měsícem +2

    H. Bennet's Chemical formulary

  • @DangerousLab
    @DangerousLab Před měsícem +3

    Is Erowid Library even considered a legitimate resource?

  • @kotyasha_meaw
    @kotyasha_meaw Před měsícem +1

    If we are talking about books, I am pretty sure there is nothing better then March (4 thomes), and for laboratory chemistry - "modern methods of organic chemistry" by Grygorenko O.O. (it's my teacher's lectures basically)

  • @HarryBGamer2570
    @HarryBGamer2570 Před měsícem +2

    Anna’s Archive?

  • @HerpDerpson210
    @HerpDerpson210 Před měsícem +1

    Organikum is also a really great book for chemists. However, i could not find a english version which is kind of sad as it starts with some really basic stuff you would like to know when you start with your chemistry studies.

  • @andrews.4780
    @andrews.4780 Před měsícem +2

    Thank you so much for sharing this Joey! 🙏🙏

  • @superstarry
    @superstarry Před měsícem

    my favourite resource in terms of just generally being extremely useful for what it is (also as a good memory) is the trusty BiNaS: a handbook given to dutch high school students who take chemistry and/or biology and/or physics. such a handy little book. while it does not contain huuuge amounts of information (mostly just the basics, but thats the point) it's very helpful for those who are still in the beginning of learning.
    as to the name: it's an acronym for Biologie, Natuurkunde, Scheikunde (literally Biology, Physics, chemistry). i love binas, everyone loves binas

  • @aAaa-ih3hw
    @aAaa-ih3hw Před měsícem +3

    Thank you alot for this one, this is super useful!

  • @urubudopix976
    @urubudopix976 Před měsícem +2

    babe wake up That Chemist dropped a new video

  • @NathanaelNewton
    @NathanaelNewton Před měsícem +2

    Scihub is amazing! I wasn't expecting you to mention it 😂 🏴‍☠️

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +4

      Using scihub for an article requires fewer steps than legitimately accessing articles through a university library login process

  • @glist831
    @glist831 Před měsícem +2

    where is cas scifinder

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +1

      its in there!

    • @Thaumius
      @Thaumius Před měsícem +1

      its the purple benzene icon, that's their old logo.

  • @multiarray2320
    @multiarray2320 Před měsícem +7

    pihkal better be s tier m8

    • @LuxAureus
      @LuxAureus Před měsícem +3

      We gotta make big man Shulgin proud out here.

    • @ashe1.070
      @ashe1.070 Před měsícem +5

      Both of Dr. Shulgin’s books are excellent! RIP Shulgin.

  • @makylemur7019
    @makylemur7019 Před měsícem +1

    n important reference is Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards.

  • @SuperAngelofglory
    @SuperAngelofglory Před měsícem

    I think PrepChem is a pretty good one too for begginer amateur chemist

  • @kagamer21
    @kagamer21 Před měsícem +1

    You're a hero TC

  • @Thaumius
    @Thaumius Před měsícem +4

    Surprised not seeing The Silverstein spectroscopy of organic compounds book on here.

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +4

      I’m more partial to Pavia but both are excellent resources

  • @science_and_anonymous
    @science_and_anonymous Před 12 dny

    Anna's archive also can help students get access to free papers and books.

  • @MrTheSmoon
    @MrTheSmoon Před měsícem +4

    no mention of German Wikipedia?

  • @burrito_slayer4516
    @burrito_slayer4516 Před měsícem +1

    Maybe the title should be directed to synthetic chemistry

  • @kyoterium
    @kyoterium Před měsícem

    I sometimes doubt about the uses of AI since their method of learning can sometimes be "weird" but there is one called "Decimer AI" That gives you different system codenames for molecules (such as smiles or CAS) when you input a picture.
    Although I prefer a lot to input a random molecule image, asking for the output and then editing with the drawing pop-up on the result.
    Maybe it isn't THE most useful resource ever but since I'm still on college learning and nailing down the names of bigger molecules sometimes is a pain as I didn't have enough time to learn that many things to associate compounds or names of more complex organic molecules

  • @tsume_akuma8321
    @tsume_akuma8321 Před měsícem +2

    Why isn't Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook on here, but the Rubber Company's is?

  • @madansharma2700
    @madansharma2700 Před měsícem

    1. Great video. 2. Nice to see some comments ( not passionate!). 3. To muddy up the placid pool, why March and Carey- Sundberg are not in the list.

  • @chemistrycapital
    @chemistrycapital Před měsícem

    The video all chemists have been waiting for

  • @claycube9591
    @claycube9591 Před měsícem +1

    not a chemist but a writer with a chemist character ! they specialize in fireworks and general pyrotechnics and I want to learn more about it to write them better, does anyone have a good starting point(s) to learn more about firework-related chem, and chemistry in general? (had a godawful chem teacher, learned next to nothing and would like to learn some basics as well.) cheers !

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +1

      Here is a great primer from Veritasium - czcams.com/video/lfkjm2YRG-Q/video.htmlsi=EKXUV6EUPL47JsCg

  • @tdwebste
    @tdwebste Před měsícem +3

    sci-hub + Google scholar

  • @felipe-n9t
    @felipe-n9t Před měsícem +3

    Community approved:
    Yes.
    If you wish to review the document related to this approval please reply with your credit card information and social security number to this comment, otherwise I cannot share any information with you. 😊😊

  • @triple_gem_shining
    @triple_gem_shining Před měsícem +1

    Perfect. I appreciate this

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +1

      Glad it was helpful! It had been on my mind for a while, and I am glad that I was finally able to get around to making it :)

  • @Aaron-en5cc
    @Aaron-en5cc Před měsícem

    Have you used Synthia the Rethrosynthetic AI from Merck? It is insane how good it is at full synthesis

  • @jsalsman
    @jsalsman Před měsícem

    You can tell you're in organic if you think the Merck Manual is slightly better than the CRC Handbook.

  • @jamesleishman8025
    @jamesleishman8025 Před měsícem +1

    I need this

  • @seansingh4421
    @seansingh4421 Před měsícem +1

    Beakers, bro…..beakers..nothing more precious than beakers and flasks. Like I’m surprised it’s not a form of currency amongst us Chemists and ChemE’s yet

  • @user-bd6eh5te7p
    @user-bd6eh5te7p Před měsícem +1

    Good video. Love fron China.

  • @welporajackwelp4899
    @welporajackwelp4899 Před měsícem +2

    Ethics? Suuurreee

  • @MissionSilo
    @MissionSilo Před měsícem +1

    Have you all tried culinary arts?

  • @Josh-glow
    @Josh-glow Před měsícem

    CRC Handbook is to chemists as Machinerys Handbook is to mechanical engineers.

  • @tjpprojects7192
    @tjpprojects7192 Před měsícem

    Probably water or gravity?

  • @kasmanasg
    @kasmanasg Před měsícem

    What about Sciencemadness forums?

  • @snoowbrigade
    @snoowbrigade Před měsícem

    Why isn't the sciencemadness wiki on here?

  • @runaway8456
    @runaway8456 Před měsícem +3

    Wonder where bing would be

  • @efelio2009
    @efelio2009 Před měsícem

    What about Chemsketch? For me was pretty useful since 1999. 😬

  • @plontetris3297
    @plontetris3297 Před měsícem

    What do you think about SynArchive?

  • @davonitos
    @davonitos Před měsícem

    Good list but Crc handbook is S tier...

  • @almc8445
    @almc8445 Před měsícem

    I love how arbitrary your rankings are, “It’s free but S tier is pretty full” 🤣

  • @glebanful
    @glebanful Před měsícem

    I hope sci-hub survives!

  • @ramone79
    @ramone79 Před měsícem

    What aboudt the most useful chemistry if you start from scrats ? What is the 3 most useful substans after the zombie apo ( got eaten by a zoombie )

  • @michaelhicks8603
    @michaelhicks8603 Před měsícem

    I fkn love mol view

  • @nybotheveg
    @nybotheveg Před měsícem

    I'm my of a scifinder guy myself.

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +2

      I was born a scifinder guy, but they had a limit of like ~20,000 results when searching for substructures and it was constantly an issue for me for literal years. It’s not an issue on Scifinder-n, but they lost me for Reaxys’ attractive bioactivity search info

    • @nybotheveg
      @nybotheveg Před měsícem +1

      @@That_Chemist I do supramolecular chemistry, so I can reasonably narrow down my search to the core of the building blocks I need. I can imagine that it's harder for natural products.

  • @OppyOzzborz-sb8oz
    @OppyOzzborz-sb8oz Před 27 dny

    Anyone knows where ullmanns encyclopedia pdfs can be found?

  • @ScienceFan123
    @ScienceFan123 Před měsícem

    I think book still the best

  • @BurnedxD
    @BurnedxD Před měsícem +2

    babe wake up, new research lore has been dropped

  • @Cosmos324
    @Cosmos324 Před měsícem

    19:25 university of ROARchester?

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Před měsícem +3

      you caught me red-handed - I said it back in my head and I knew you were right

  • @me0101001000
    @me0101001000 Před měsícem

    German Wikipedia deserves its own entry. If you won't find the page in English, you probably will in German.

  • @darealsherlock8026
    @darealsherlock8026 Před měsícem

    CZcams having superior post-publication review capabilities to scientific journals is concerning...

  • @tag180rotax
    @tag180rotax Před měsícem

    CZcams can be a good resource too

  • @NathanaelNewton
    @NathanaelNewton Před měsícem

    And here I thought you were going to be talking about specific chemicals.. 1:17

  • @sIippo
    @sIippo Před měsícem +1

    this video is a dream for clandestine “enthusiasts”

  • @miner1546
    @miner1546 Před měsícem

    Hi.

  • @billyma6
    @billyma6 Před měsícem

    eyy fellow vancouverite

  • @DNautSun
    @DNautSun Před měsícem

    Well if there were accurate references it would all lead back to the government

  • @yahyagd5637
    @yahyagd5637 Před měsícem +1

    Breaking bad

  • @joshuahere5097
    @joshuahere5097 Před měsícem

    Wrong, its money

  • @julianmonopoli8151
    @julianmonopoli8151 Před měsícem

    Science madness forums gang

  • @Tulsenus
    @Tulsenus Před měsícem

    Ligma what

  • @plaen.
    @plaen. Před měsícem

    1 hour ago

  • @user-qh5pj2ns4o
    @user-qh5pj2ns4o Před měsícem

    The first one to comment finaly!

  • @lolbatu69
    @lolbatu69 Před měsícem

    Dark web best 😊

    • @ScienceFan123
      @ScienceFan123 Před měsícem +3

      if you want bad recipes and mediocre products then yeah

    • @ashe1.070
      @ashe1.070 Před měsícem

      No. Rhodium.

  • @orgochem
    @orgochem Před měsícem

    where’s scifinder