CHEMISTRY 1131/1133
Dr. Bell-Loncella
Library Scavenger Hunt
Spring
2017
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: This is an exercise in learning to use the library
-- for a chemistry class. Many of you are already familiar with most of the
books and journals in the chemistry collection; therefore, this will be a review
exercise. However, it can only help to heighten your awareness of the chemistry
holdings at the Owen Library, and give you a good overview of the current
location of materials while in temporary quarters. It counts as 15 points
toward preparation for your research paper.
Your team will have a manager, recorder and technical assistant. The manager
will also act as the encourager, the recorder will also be a reflector and the
technical assistant will act as skeptic. We'll address each of these roles in
class. If the assignment is a cooperative effort, everyone will work to help the
team do the best job possible. You will turn in only one assignment. Everyone
earns the same score.
For this assignment begin by walking around the library. Construct a map and
use it to identify the location of the different books, journals and other
reference materials that you will find on this scavenger hunt. The assignment
assumes that you know how to use Pitt-cat to find the call number and location of a book. The completed assignment is
due in class Friday, January 20, 2017. We'll take the last 10
minutes of class to review what you found.
We'll start on the reference level (The
Main Floor of the Owen Library).
- Find the following reference items. Use Pitt-Cat to
locate the call number
- CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry
- Merck Index
- Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry
Find an article on model compounds for the copper enzyme
tyrosinase. Give the author, volume and page numbers.
- Aldrich Library of IR Spectra
- Aldrich Library of NMR Spectra
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
- Organic Synthesis
- Inorganic Synthesis
- Kirk-Othemer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Find an article on transition metal coordination ions. Give the
author, volume and page number.
- Find the following chemistry/science journals
- Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS)
- Inorganic Chemistry (IC)
- Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC)
- Chemical Reviews (Chem Reviews)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS)
- Accounts of Chemical Research (Accounts)
- Journal of Chemical Education (J. Chem. Ed)
- Science
- Biochemistry (Biochem)
- Question:
- Which ones are shelved as hard copies in the Owen Library?
- If aavailable as hard coies how are these journals shelved?
- Are all of the journals Current? How can you tell?
- How are the reference materials shelved? What are the call numbers for
each?
- How many of these are available on-line?
- Identify the location of the journal and reference materials on your
map.
- PittCat+ allows
you to tailor a search of only journals (peer reviewed) on a limited or
broad range or topics in inorganic chemistry. Using these tools, how many
different peer-reviewed journals (hard-copy and/or electronic) that contain
articles on topics in inorganic chemistry?
- What items (if any) on this list are no longer avaiable in the library?
For the second part begin with Pitt-cat to
locate the following.
These books are housed
on the second floor of Owen Library.
Include the call number for each book and the general location -- on the
shelves -- where you would find each book. For each book, make note of its
location (Circulating Collection, Reserve, the Chemistry library in
Oakland). If the book is in the Owen library, use one of the floor plans
available in the library to identify where it is located. Describe the general
procedure to obtain a book from the Chemistry library in Oakland.
- Books on Inorganic Chemistry & Descriptive
Chemistry
- Cotton & Wilkinson, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (which
edition?)
- Howard Nechamkin, The Chemistry of the Elements
- William Lipscomb, Boron Hydrides
- Basolo and Pearson, Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions
- Books on Symmetry, Bonding and MO theory
- Harry Gray, Chemical Bonds
- Kettle, Symmetry and Structure
- Ballhausen & Gray, Molecular Orbital Theory
- Books on Acid-Base Theory
- Luder & Zuffanti, The Electronic Theory of Acids and Bases
- R. G. Pearson, Hard and Soft Acids and Bases
- Books on Photochemistry (organic &
inorganic)
- Jack G. Calvert [and] James N. Pitts, Jr., Photochemistry
- Nicholas J. Turro, Molecular Photochemistry
- Books on Organometallics
- Ch. Elschenbroich and A. Salzer, Organometallics
- Eugene G. Rochow, Organometallic Chemistry
- Books on Organic Chemistry
- Jerry March, Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms and
Structure (which edition?)
- Herbert House, Modern Synthetic Reactions
- Books on Analytical Methods and Spectroscopy
- Ahuja Satinder, Ed. Chromatography and Separation Chemistry: Advances
and Developments
- Kissinger & Heineman, Laboratory Techniques in Electroanalytical
Chemistry
- The latest in 2-D NMR: Horst Friebolin, Basic One- and
Two-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy (which edition?)
- FTIR: Nakamoto, Infrared and Raman Spectra of Inorganic Coordination
Compounds (which edition?)
- G. E. Martin and A. S. Zehlzer, Two-Dimensional NMR Methods for
Establishing Melecular Connectivity
- Budzikiewics, Djerassi, and Williams, Mass Spectrometry of Organic
Compounds
- Lawrence Que, Ed. Physical Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry:
Spectroscopy and Magnetism
- Books on Molecular Visualization and Computational
Chemistry
- Peter Comba, Trevor W. Hambley and Bodo Martin, Molecular Modeling of
Inorganic Compounds (which edition?)
- David C. Young, Computational Chemistry : a Practical Guide for
ApplyingTtechniques to Real World Problems
- Alan Hinchliffe, Molecular Modelling for Beginners
- Books on BioInorganic Chemistry
- Hay, BioInorganic Chemistry
- Chatt and Richards have a chapter on "Dinitrogen Complexes and Nitrogen
Fixation" in Postgate's book, The Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen
Fixation. What is the full reference for the article?
- Serials -
The collection at Owen Library
does not have complete series of most of these. However, you can obtain
many of them through ILL from the Chemistry
Library in Oakland. When you check for these note how many volumes
are available in the Owen
Library. Then check the holdings in the Collections in the Chemistry
Library.
- Progress in Inorganic Chemistry
- Structure and Bonding
- Comments in Inorganic Chemistry
- Advances in Chemistry published by the American Chemical Society,
Robert Guild is the Editor
- Annual Reviews in Biochemistry (The Annual
Reviews Suite is available on line.)
- Question:
- Were you abel to find everything on this list?
- Can you detect a pattern in the cataloging
system? What is it?
- Suppose you were looking for a book on the threory and interpretation of
mass spectrometry. You check PittCat and find that the book by Djerassi is
out ... and you can't wait till the patron returns it. Where might you look
to find other books on that subjuect?
- What are some other books on the subject of bioinorganic chemistry on the
shelves in Owen library?
Once you have completed your "hunt", the recorder will compile all of the
results in an easy-to-read (for me) formmat.