Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter - Summer 2006

CHEMISTRY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER
Summer 2006

CONTENTS:


1. New electronic resources (journals, journal issues, etc.)

2. Chemical Safety

3. Fieser & Fieser's Reagents for Organic Synthesis
Collective Index to v.1-22
[MIL-8 REF QD 262 F5]

4. NCBI Search Toolbar (PubMed, etc.)

5. Chemical Abstracts / SciFinder Scholar News

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1. New electronic resources (journals, journal issues, etc.)

Analytical Chemistry
(2006), 78(12), 3841-4145
http://pubs.acs.org/journals/ancham/index.html

Annual special issue of Fundamental Reviews covering a wide variety to topics (e.g., Solid State NMR, Chiral Separations, Electrochemical Sensors, Molecular Fluorescence, ICP MS)

Annual Scientific Report / HHMI
2005
http://www.hhmi.org/home/HHMI_AR05.pdf

Biointerphases
v.1 (2006)+
http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=BJIOBN

Faculty of 1000-Biology
(Highlights and reviews of the most interesting papers)
http://www.f1000biology.com/browse/

HHMI bulletin
v.14 (2001)+
http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/

International journal of materials research : Zeitschrift fur Metallkunde.
v.97, no.4 (Apr. 2006)+
http://www.ijmr.de/o_archiv.asp

Journal of Biological Chemistry - Reflections
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/sectionsearch?tocsectionid=Reflections

In honor of the JBC Centenary, a series of Reflections was inaugurated. Reflections are invited articles by respected biochemists on a topic of their choosing, which hopefully capture some of the personal experiences and history of biochemistry. Authors include: Alexander Rich, Robert Sinsheimer, Gerald Edelman, Irving Klotz, and Paul Berg.

Journal of the Electrochemical Society
v.122, 1975+
http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=JESOAN

Journal of instrumentation
v.1 (2006)+
http://www.iop.org/EJ/jinst/

Nature
v.165 (1950)+
http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/index.html


2. Chemical Safety

"How dangerous is chemistry?" -- A recent 'special report' in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7093/pdf/441560a.pdf

Highlights include:

"There simply is never an adequate excuse for not wearing safety glasses in the laboratory at all times". K. Barry Sharpless

"A couple of drops of dimethyl mercury … (penetrated) her latex gloves … (resulting in) 80 times the lethal dose of mercury in her blood". Karen Wetterhahn

"… two safety release valves on the (liquid nitrogen) cylinder had been removed and replaced with wire plugs, turning the cylinder in to a pressure bomb". Texas A & M University

See Also: Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards [SFL-REF T55.3.H3 B73 1999]


3. Collective Index to Fieser & Fieser's Reagents for Organic Synthesis [MIL-8 REF QD 262 F5]

The Collective Index to v.1-22 includes:

Reagents Index by Name - p.1-184 (e.g. Aluminum Chloride)
Reagents Index by (primary reactive) Element - p.185-392 (e.g. Magnesium)
Type of Reaction Index - p.393-644 (e.g. Aldol Reactions, Heck Reaction)
Index of Synthetic Targets - p.645-914 (e.g. Acetals, Ketones)
Index of Natural Product Targets - p.915-934 (e.g. Abscisic Acid)
Author Index - p.935-1266 (e.g. Stoltz, B.M.)
Subject Index - p.1267-1546 (e.g. Aluminum Chloride)


4. NCBI Search Toolbar
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd05/nd05_toolbar.html

The Toolbar is an optional addition to your Web browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox) that expedites searching the NCBI's resources (PubMed, etc.). It also highlights search results and provides shortcuts to NCBI resources.


5. Chemical Abstracts / SciFinder Scholar News

CAplus includes over 25M abstracts, adding 981K in 2005.
CASREACT includes over 11M reactions.
CAS Registry includes over 27,000,000 organic and inorganic substance records.
CAS Registry includes over 142K NMR, 28K IR, & 19K Mass Spectra.