Web Links
Driving Directions & Campus Overview
University of Pittsburgh Maps & Directions; for the Chemistry Department Chevron Building, click here; for the BST3 labs, click here.
Synthesis & General Chemistry References
H-Cube Catalysts; pdf File of Applications & Operation; Wipf Group User Guidelines (pdf)
Smith ATR IR; Wipf Group User Guidelines (pdf)
Overview of Lab Techniques and Useful Reagents (TLC, etc)
Agilent and Waters LC/MS Primers and HPLC Troubleshooting Guide
Flash Chromatography Guidelines
Common NMR Solvents & Impurities
1H NMR Coupling Constant Analysis
Strategies & Tools for NMR based Structure Determination
Tables of pKa's, Name reactions, Organic synthesis problems
Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide
U.S. & Canadian Organic Faculty
Chemical Supplier's Database for Compound Properties
Faculty of 1000-Biology "Pharmacology & Drug Discovery"
Houben-Weyl Science of Synthesis
Online Journals Article Search
Science Citation Search (Web of Science) Gateway
Summary of Common Crystallization Solvents
Crystallization Information - How to grow x-ray quality crystals
Health Sciences Library System (or: Book Search)
e-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis Search
RSC Methods in Organic Synthesis Online Search
Charting Chemical Space: Finding New Tools to Explore Biology, August, 2004
News Coverage
Oncothyreon, Press Release, June 2008: Phase I trial of PX-866, a compound developed in our labs
C&E News, August 6, 2007 (Solvent can dominate optical rotation)
C&E News, February 6, 2006 (Streamlined method to ID chiral selectors)
University Times, January 6, 2005 (Disorazole Synthesis)
C&E News, May 3, 2004 (The Right Combination; Combinatorial Chemistry & Jobs in Drug Discovery)
C&E News, April 19, 2004 (Organozirconium Chemistry Arrives)
Acient Roots - Modern Medicines, Spring 2004 (Story about Curacin A)
PittMed, February 2004, (When it Comes to Cancer, What's Rational?) (pdf)
Pitt Chronicle, November 10, 2003 (From Discovery to Treatment)
C&E News, October 13, 2003 (Beyond Natural Products)
C&E News, November 11, 2002 (Curacin A)
Pitt News, October 14, 2002 (UPCMLD)
Post-Gazette, October 11, 2002 (UPCMLD)