CH 153K/154K: Physical Chemistry Laboratory Library Page
Locating "literature values" for physical and chemical data on chemical compounds and systems is an important part of completing experiments and evaluating your data. Here are some links to help you along.
- Course E-Reserves
- The "blue binder" available at the Chemistry Library's reserves desk and its e-reserves equivalent provide copies of the relevant handbook pages, tables, and journal articles cited in your lab syllabus. So if you're looking for that azeotropic data, eutectic point, phase diagram, benzoic acid derivative, and so forth, look no further. Ask your TA for the e-reserves course password.
- Reserve Books in the Library
- Various lab texts and background readings are on reserve in the Chemistry Library, including Garland's Experiments in Physical Chemistry. Ask for them by title or author at the reserves desk. Checkout is for 2 HOURS, (overnight 2 hours before library closes), and you MUST have your UT ID card to check them out.
- Finding Data 101
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- This brief tutorial gives examples of using some of the key online tools to locate chemical and thermodynamic data.
- Finding Chemical Data
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- This syllabus chapter gives you a longer overview of reliable chemical and physical data on the Web and in the literature. And why you should not Google it. This chapter will make your life much easier both in the CH 153K library exercise and down the road.
- Eutectic of diphenylamine and naphthalene mixtures
- Reproduction of the table from the Timmermanns handbook.
- Finding Thermodynamic and Physical Property Data
- Listing of many sources for reliable data.
- Citing Your Sources
- The ACS Style Guide is the source of guidelines for citing various literature sources in chemical publications and lab reports. The Guide is available at the Reserves desk. Chapter 14, covering reference style, is available via the ACS Publications web site as a PDF file. A Univ. of Wisconsin page provides some typical examples of literature you may need to cite.
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