Inorganic Chemistry   Experiment 1
Spring 2008

 
 


Surfing the Internet

    Some of you have done a version of this experiment in Descriptive; for others this will be new.  An important tool for scientists is the world wide web, but we must be able to obtain useful information from the web.  There are many sites and search engines and not all contain the same information. The assignment for this lab is to search the Web using four search engines (i.e, Lycos, Snap.com, Infoseek, Excite, Webcrawler, Yahoo, etc.), search the Ingenta site, to enter the NIST data base and search the ACS page.

Search Engines
 Using Internet Explorer, use any four search engines of your choice. You must use the following:
 1) www.yahoo.com
 2) http://www.google.com

Do a search on the four engines (two of your choice) using the same word.  The word you search is up to you.  It does not have to be science oriented.  After the search is complete, make sure you summarize the results of the search in your lab report (see details for write-up below).

INGENTA and Google Scholar
You can enter Ingenta at the following address:

 http://www.ingenta.com/
Once into the Ingenta website, you are to do a word  and a author search.  Each person will have a separate word and author.  You are to search:
 
Word Author
     
Brown pyrite M. Rakowski
Childress laurite J. P. Fackler
Green hydrogenation F. A. Cotton
Nelson porphyrin A. W. Cordes
Newman thioether A. L. Rheingold
Nichols catalyst T. Rauchfuss
Ross thiol D. Coucouvanis
Shelton marcasite M. Kanatzidis
Whitmore thiophene E. I. Stiefel

You can enter Google Scholar at the following address:

http://scholar.google.com/
Once into the Google Scholar website, search your assigned word and author.

Write up your results of the searches and briefly describe the information given for a typical "hit".

Data off of the Web
    Enter the NIST Chemistry Webbook data base:

 http://webbook.nist.gov
Find a compound off of the data base that you want to see. Once the compound has been loaded, print a spectrum for the compound (IR, MS, etc.) for your lab report.

American Chemical Society Webpage:
    Find the national ACS web page and go to the student affiliate page.  On this page is a listing of ACS webpages for various universities and colleges.  Tell how many different schools have webpages listed here and look at any 3 and briefly describe them.  For the ACS webpages, give the web address for each.

Write-up
    The report must follow the guidelines on the Lab Report page. The report will be due by 5:00 pm on Friday, Feb. 8, 2008.  This lab will be worth 20 points of your lab grade.  No late reports will be accepted.  Note: do not wait until the day before the lab report is due to start the experiment.

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Revised 1/8/08