One of many useful articles addressing how we present science wrongly is "Ten Myths About Science".

Items useful for chemical education:

• Sites I have prepared on
  • Molecular models, chirality and Fischer projections. Rules for manipulating Fischer projections are included. These pages use the Jmol Java applet, and the Molecular Visions model kit.

  • Olestra^®

  • Walsh's molecular orbital model of cyclopropane

  • Ira Remsen's famous discourse, "Nitric acid acts upon copper."

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• The Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society
• The Journal of Chemical Education and JCE Online
• The Chemical Educator, an online journal
• CHEMED-L. A threaded archive is maintained.
• Abby Parrill maintains a page of Educational Materials for Organic Chemistry.
• Here is a page full of useful chemistry visualization material; it includes a link to
  • Dave Woodcock's Introduction to Organic Nomenclature. It makes very good use of the Chemscape Chime plug-in for Netscape and Internet Explorer.
• Those interested in chemistry drawing software may want to try my chemical imaging links.
• Frank Lambert maintains two excellent sites on the Second Law of Thermodynamics:
  1. secondlaw.com presents the basic treatment with minimal mathematics; one main point is that reaction energy barriers are what allows complex compounds to exist in spite of their thermodynamic instability.
  2. 2ndlaw.com answers questions raised by Lambert's first site and includes more mathematics.
• An interactive tutorial on empirical and semi-empirical molecular orbital theory.
• Relativistic quantum chemistry.
• More computational chemistry links.

Some other science education links, more or less related to chemistry:

• The Chemist's Art Gallery, an exhibition of visualizations and animations in chemistry.
• My bookmarks on the history of chemistry and alchemy.
• A page on the history of African-Americans in Science.
• The Virtual School of Molecular Science, which tends toward courses which of industrial utility (whatever that means).
• Some instructional software for chemistry.

Other people's links which I think are valuable:

• The Chemistry Home Page at the Virginia Military Institute, which will admit women in the fall of 1997...
• Scott van Brammer's home page
• R.H. Logan's home page

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