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http://www.acdlabs.com/download/

a really convenient structure-drawing program, especially when you're composing a quiz at the last minute!

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

if you don't have it already, you need this to read .pdf documents, which are very common at many  government and university sites.

http://sdc.shockwave.com/downloads/     or 

http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/frameset.fhtml?P1_Prod_Version=aShockwave

  you'll need this to play the animations at Mark Bishop's site and others like the Periodic Spiral as well.

you need MDL Chime

www.mdli.com/download/  follow links

http://www.mdli.com/chime/

If you can see the structure at the left, you've got it already. If not, you're missing out on the most popular way to view and manipulate 3D pictures of molecules! Head on up to the site and download it now! 

Chime is available in both Netscape and MS IE versions, but the Netscape version is the only one that will work reliably for all Chime sites.
Use Netscape 4.x only [4.75 to 4.79] -- NEVER the dreadful Netscape 6 [or 7]!!!
My IE 6 version [I have Win XP Pro at work] is working quite well -- for those sites that allow it.

www.mdli.com/download/  follow their  links

http://www.mdli.com/chime/  

ftp://ftp.mdli.com/pub   neither was this one !  

A really useful tool for viewing .PDB files as manipulable 3D images. Available for both MS Internet Explorer and Netscape -- why not get both versions at the same time and make life simpler no matter which browser you prefer? [You'll see my feelings on browsers just a few entries down!!]   

www.mdli.com/download/

Freeware that's really convenient to use.  Draw a structure, select it and copy directly to MS Word™ with no hassles. Different look than with CS ChemDraw™ and ACD Labs ChemSketch™. I used ISIS to do the benzene icon for the organic sites.

http://www.knowitall.com/academic/welcome.html

"In a continued commitment to academia, Bio-Rad is offering this completely FREE and fully functional software package to promote learning and research in the academic community... draw structures, perform IR and Raman functional group analysis, access a multi-technique spectral database with cross-references, and generate high-quality reports..."
I'll let you know how I like it after I've had a chance to use it....

DOWNLOAD   MS Internet Explorer™ 5.5 

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/ie55sp1.htm

A survey by one British chemsite had MS IE™ a 3:1 favorite over Netscape™  but you need both, for reasons you'll soon see.  Please, Mr. Gates, let's make IE a bit more plugin-friendly --  I'm tired of having to use Netscape to access a handful of really good Chime sites. 

http://home.netscape.com/download/archive/client_archive47x.html

  4.75 or 4.76 works fine with CHIME -- in fact, for some perverse reason, as explained by Eric Mertz at his World Molecular Visualization site,  many CHIME sites don't work well with MS IE; nonetheless, beware newer Netscape versions, especially the dreaded Netscape 6 !!!!  See further comments under WebCT below.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Another useful program you'll need at some sites

http://huxley.real.com/real/player/player.html?src=011214realhome_1,rcahome,011210r1choice_h2,011204rpchoice_c1&dc=121812171216

or go to real.com and hunt carefully for the free download -- it's not easy to find...

http://www.albany.net/~cprimus/orb/index.html

Neat pictures of orbitals -- and orbital-drawing software you can download from "Orbital Central"

"Download Orbital Viewer for Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000/ME/3.1x (3.1x requires Win32s). 690 kb. This includes a simple help file. Versions for other operating systems are available on the programs page. It is strongly recommended that Orbital Viewer be run on a Pentium computer or better. Last updated 3 April 2001."

    http://soulcatcher.chem.umass.edu/         

home of ChemLand® and other useful goodies

http://www.chem1.com/chemed/
http://www.chem1.com/chemed/genchem.html

This site has a wealth of resources for chemistry teachers, with an emphasis on computer-assisted instruction. You absolutely have to check it out. You may have noticed that Steve Lower has several entries under various headings in this list  -- that should show how together his act is!

  http://www.chem1.com

Truly effective and attractive presentations designed to promote real understanding of  a wide variety of fundamental chemical concepts.  You can download a partially-functional tryout version. If you like it as much as I did, the full version is around thirty dollars -- money very well spent!

http://c4.cabrillo.cc.ca.us        

a really excellent CHIME site, with tools and tutorials. Unfortunately, you can't get the site to work right with MS Internet Explorer™ even with the IE version of CHIME installed, so access it with Netscape Communicator™ 4.75 or 4.76.

http://www.eclipse.net/~pankuch/Newsletter/Pages_News/NewsletterCCE.html

keep up with the trends. Brian has also organized for CONFCHEM

CONFCHEM

 http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/  

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*Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at the University of Michigan

http://hi-ce.org/sciencelaboratory/eChem/

"eChem is a simplified and learner-centered design version of professional visualizing tools. It allows students to build and manipulate three-dimensional models of molecules with a visualizer module. It also allows students to compare computationally predicted properties of the molecule with properties they observe in the laboratory. All views and modules are linked together, allowing the student to easily switch between various representations of the molecule."

I've tried it and it really is easy to use. Aimed at a high school audience, it has potential uses in higher ed as well. The lower picture at left shows L-cysteine in ball-and-stick (upper left), spacefill (lower left) and wireframe (both upper and lower right) displays. When the same molecule is shown in all four panels, they can all be simultaneously rotated.

http://www.makeashorterlink.com/about.php

This web site provides a simple service - when you find a page on the web whose address is too long to paste into an email or other document, you can use their free service to generate a shorter, simpler address. You can pass that shorter URL on to others by email, confident that most email clients will recognise it as a URL and turn it into something clickable.

http://taste.merlot.org/    the "tasting room"

http://www.merlot.org/Home.po   the home page

http://chemistry.merlot.org/Home.po   the chemistry section

A free and open resource for faculty and students in higher education, MERLOT is the product of a consortium of (mostly) public institutions of higher education [including CCC's and CSU] with divisions devoted to biology, business, chemistry, engineering, health science, history, information technology, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, and teacher education.

http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/mo/

a program that enables you to pick and choose from a RasMol display only those portions of a molecule that you are interested in.

http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/cortona/download/iexplore/

even though it  seems that VRML may have passed its peak, there are still scores of great sites out there where you will need a viewer plugin to see the goodies. This one works very well with IE and Netscape 4.7x.

http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/explorer/index.htm

requires Netscape

download Protein Explorer

http://www.sienahts.edu/~che/vrmlchem.html

some molecular visualization sites employ VRML displays; this site will help you get up to speed on it.

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

I haven't tried it yet, but it's clear that I need to!

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http://www.acdlabs.com/

Makers of really useful software -- some of it available free! ACD ChemSketch, HNMR, CNMR, .... some of it is compatible with CS ChemOffice as well.

http://www.arguslab.com/

You can download a free trial version. I haven't tried it yet, but plan to after I've asked them a few questions. The licensed version is currently $79.95 for academic users and has a long list of features. I appreciated that they have a "known issues and bugs" page [it's quite short].

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http://www.camsoft.com  

 the makers of  CS ChemOffice™     [no chemist should be without it!!],
 CS ChemDraw™,  CS Chem3D™, CS ChemFinder™, CS ChemInfo™,
CS ClipArt™, CS MOPAC™.......  
BUT watch out for that free Chem 3D viewing plugin -- it may change the way your Chime structures look on MS IE and Netscape unless you load Chime afterward [it's a MIME thing]!

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http://www.chemsw.com/default.htm

they distribute a lot of items, including products by Cambridge Software, and have goodies of their own design as well.

http://home.earthlink.net/~hiltonevans/chempen.htm

haven't tried it myself, but check it out

  http://www.chem1.com

Truly effective and attractive presentations designed to promote real understanding of  a wide variety of fundamental chemical concepts.  You can download a partially-functional tryout version. If you like it as much as I did, the full version is around thirty dollars -- money very well spent!

http://www.cheminnovation.com

Offers Chem-4D Draw in office, pro, standard, and lite versions -- a complete drawing package with structure <> name capability;  the Nomenclator and NamExpert add-ons for CS ChemDraw 4.x; and ChemSite, a 3-D modeling program. Some available in Mac versions.

http://www.acornnmr.com/

shareware available; needed for PLU FTNMR archive below

http://serenasoft.com/pcm7.html

http://cmm.info.nih.gov/modeling/software.html

links to manufacturers

http://www.wavefunction.com

haven't used this one too much, but I've heard others say they really like it.

http://www.molecules.com/index.shtml

"... useful and affordable software for scientific and technical documentation. From technical clipart to multimedia presentations; from 2D chemical diagrams to molecular model building and 3D visualization ..."

http://www.iacr.bbsrc.ac.uk/notebook/

http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/index.html

more detail available on my general chemistry page. I included it here because they will eventually have stuff out on CD's

http://chem.myclass.net/

online course development in general and organic with free tryout

http://www.thevirtualityproject.freeserve.co.uk/homeframe.htm

free demo and for-sale software and web-based instructional aids

http://www.webct.com/chemistry/

considered by many to be the premier online course management system; you can get a free tryout, but it's much better if your school signs on and arranges for one of their people to present a training session. In any case, they have lots of resources that are available free. Check it out...

FLASH! on 5/18/01 WebCT issued the following announcement:  "After extensive testing, the WebCT Development Team has determined that the Netscape 6 and 6.01 browsers will not be supported in WebCT 3.6 Standard or Campus Editions. Our testing has revealed that several significant issues in these latest versions of the Netscape browser seriously affect how WebCT content is displayed, and impair the designed functions of some WebCT tools." we're all on the same page where 6.x is concerned!