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The Silicon Graphics Teaching Laboratory
has been replaced by the
Chemi cal Information Laboratory
and this information is for historical interest only

Teaching and Computers

How can Computers be Useful in Teaching Chemistry?

• Structures (Useful for IB Chemistry)
  • Various Organic Molecules, illustrating some concepts in conformational analysis
  • Nucleic Acids
    • Simulation of DNA Movement
    • Genetic Code
  • Amino Acids
    • Simulation of Crambin Movement
  • Visualising Normal Modes
  • Alkane Conformations Competition
  • Some of these files are also available on the CD-rom distributed with
    Chemical Communications 1997, #6.

• Graphical Solutions to Equations (Useful for IA Chemistry)
  • Kinetics:
    • Two step reaction with reversible first step
    • Enzyme kinetics (Michaelis-Menten)
  • Orbitals:
    • Simple atomic orbitals
    • James Keeler has used Explorer to represent the structures of orbitals

• Magnus: Chemical Calculations

• Visualising Biological Chemistry

• Synthesis calculator (Dr Steve Moratti)

• Explaining Reaction Mechanisms
  • How can a dynamic, three-dimensional process be displayed? Two examples from David Wales group: Example 1, Example 2
  • A brief account of asymmetric hydroboration including interactive three dimensional pictures of the key structures.

• Periodic Table: Java Version

• John Emsley's Periodic Table: Net Elements II

• Chemical Applications of Molecular Modelling

• Other Software
  • Much of the software in the Silicon Graphics Laboratory can be useful for illustrating lectures In particular, MacroModel is good at displaying and manipulating inorganic and organic structures and Molecular Dynamics simulations. Cerius2 can be used to display zeolites and crystal structures, illustrating their Miller planes and providing a wide range of other images.

• Resources from around the world
  • Curly Arrows for Organic Reaction Mechanisms (This program will only run on a PC with an up to date web browser)
  • Chemistry Departments Around the World
  • CTI centre for Chemistry
  • Association for Science Education
  • Calculation and Visualisation of IR Spectra
  • ChemVis
  • Chemistry Hypermedia Project
  • Global Instructional Chemistry
  • Chemical Education Resource Shelf
  • Molecular modelling (National Institutes of Health)
  • The Chemistry Place
  • NMR information server
  • Index of Free Chemistry Software
  • Free software from ACD labs

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More information about Cambridge undergraduate lectures

Some of these demonstrations can be run over the WWW. Others are descriptions of ways in which the Silicon Graphics Teaching Laboratory can be used to provide displays in lectures.

Cambridge students and researchers can run some demonstrations on the newer Silicon Graphics Teaching Laboratory computers (fcal - ncal). To use the demonstrations described here, log on to any of the newer Silicon Graphics Teaching Laboratory workstations, then type:

setenv PATH /usr/local/teach/bin:$PATH
You will now be able to experiment with the demonstrations described on these pages.