Nava Lab Tutorials, Lit., and Problem Sets

Members of the lab may make suggestions for future tutorials and literature papers here. A google drive link to the files required for the tutorials can be found here. The location for literature presentations can be found here.

Link to weekly/biweekly problem sets

5 min lit review guidelines and the associated spreadsheet

PDF Files of the Tutorials

  1. Routine NMR Toutorial

  2. Schlenk Line 1

  3. Drying Solvents

  4. Removing Solvents

  5. HPLC Basics 1

  6. Basic MS Analysis

  7. NMR Kinetics (by KTX)

  8. Maintenance Literature Reading

  9. Notebook Pages 1

  10. Basic of Pipettors

  11. Growing Xtals 1

  12. Vacuum Pumps

  13. Chem Draw (by David Gygi, video link, click video)

  14. Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC)

  15. Using Reaxys (by David Gygi, video link, click video)

  16. Solvent selection guide for reactions

  17. Reference Manager (Mendeley)

  18. Research Proposals

  19. Common connection types in lab

  20. Balances - usuage and maintanence

  21. Conferences

  22. Internal Standards (for NMR and HPLC/GC)

  23. Base Baths

  24. Kinetics Fitting (for lifetime measurements, by Kris Reynolds and Vito Lin)

  25. Testing Air-Free Glassware for Leaks (paper)

  26. Conquest searching (for searching for crystal structures, by Lina Zarnitsa)

  27. Literature searching

  28. Reaction Development (Chem Soc Rev paper by Glorius; guide on how to develop a reaction youve discovered)

  29. Spectrophotometry (Intro slides to UV-Vis and Emission Spectroscopy, by Vito Lin)


Learning Resources:

Texts:

Organometallic Reader

Organometallic HyperTextBook; by Rob Toreki

Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry; by William Reusch, free virtual undergraduate organic textbook

1H NMR Multiplet Guide; by J. Nowicj, good guide to help understand 1H coupling

MIT OpenCourseWare; OCWChemistry


Interactive/learning websites:

ChemTube3D; by Nick Greeves, interactive 3D animation and structures, includes bioinorg and organometallic examples

R/S Chemistry; by Neil Garg, designed to help students master sterochemical assignments

Synthesis Workshop; Youtube channel which has guest researchers present their (mostly organic) research

Cheminfographic; website with nice figures (look at this for figure design ideas) and includes very useful content


Other labs seminars:

Baran Lab

Stoltz Lab