Resources for Molecular Model Building 2002

Web Resources for Building Molecular Models

Spartan Resources

http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/1997/Jul/abs771.html : Teaching Chemistry with Electron Density Models, by Dr. Gwendolyn P. Shusterman and Alan J. Shusterman in the Journal of Chemical Education.
http://www.wavefun.com/: The Wavefunction site with information about Spartan programs and downloadable demo versions.

http://www.wavefun.com/software/software.html Demo version of Spartan 02 (crippled)

http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/chem120/PCSpartan/PCStutorial.html Understanding VSEPR and Electron Density Models Using Computational Chemistry (from Wellesley).
http://lungo.chem.columbia.edu/biophys/spartan/tut.html detailed Spartan Tutorial from Columbia.
http://www.canby.com/hemphill/chmimg.html: Chemistry Bonding Images, an introductory page by Mike Ellison, Lori Lancaster, and Rosa Hemphill on uses of Spartan images in teaching high school chemistry.
http://www.canby.com/hemphill/spartan/pt98cmpd.htm: Periodic Bonding Trends of Compounds, a page housing links to Spartan teaching use and to compounds created using Spartan in a periodic table format.
http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/chem/molecule/molecule.html :1250 molecular models in .pdb format from Dr. Dave Woodcock at Okanagan University College.
http://www.chm.davidson.edu/ronutt/che401/NH3/NH3_Tutor.htm a tutorial from Davidson for building BH_{3 .}
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~emlaughl/mmlab/advanced/ Advanced Spartan Tutorial including directions for orbitals for trimethylamine.
http://www.chem.swin.edu.au/modules/mod5/energy.shtml Molecular modeling conversion factors.
http://pollux.chem.umn.edu/~kormos/8021/ Computational chemistry class at the University of Minnesota (advanced).
http://www.sdsc.edu/chemdyn/chem515/readlab.htm Computational chemistry class at the San Diego SuperComputer Center.
http://csm.jmu.edu/chemistry/pcspartan/html/overview.htm Tutorial for building in PCSpartan Plus.
http://www.chem.uwec.edu/EmbeddingChimes/Pages/coordinates_content.html Coordinates Tutorial for generating Chime images from Spartan models.

Resources for other molecular modeling programs

http://hi-ce.org/sciencelaboratory/eChem/ eChem Chemistry modeling and analysis. Aimed at high school students, this site requires you to use an installer. Then students can build and manipulate molecules and use their images to predict properties.
http://www.umich.edu/~chem302/Notes/Atomic-Orbital.html Atomic orbital visualization using CAChe.
http://www.umich.edu/~chem302/Notes/LewisCache.html CAChe and Lewis Structures.
http://www.cachesoftware.com/ CAChe software homepage.
http://www.hyper.com/sales/electronic/electronic-lite.htm HyperChem Lite is a "light" version of the modeling program, HyperChem.
http://www.hyper.com/ The full HyperChem version.

Hemphill and Ellison
11/14/02