As I mentioned in class, I use Google Reader to keep up with chemistry journals and many science (and non-science) websites. This is infinitely easier than visiting each individual website as the majority of the …

“A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.”
— Frank H. Westheimer
A wealth of information exists outside of Google, although both Google and Google Scholar are powerful tools. How …

You found an article that really grabbed your attention and you cannot wait to share it. Great! So where do you begin? Start by choosing a specific idea, fact, or result and use it to …

A table of completed assignments is available on the wiki. Please don’t wait until the last minute to complete your assignments. Nicole and I are available for help both subject wise and in getting your …

I’m still looking for suggestions for this website now that we’ve been up and running for a couple of months. My goal is to make it as functional as possible without cluttering it up. A …

We built on our discussion of symmetry and introduction to character tables by ‘generating’ the character table for the C2v point group using the set of coordinate vectors (and the idea of ‘orthogonality’), and defined …

The focus this week has been on molecular symmetry, symmetry elements and operations, point groups and point group assignment, with a brief intro to character tables.
A few take home points:

a molecule is considered to have …