What is it about?
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) hosts a number of resources of direct benefit to teaching chemistry. One of these resources, ChemSpider, is a free chemical database containing data for millions of chemical compounds. The data includes thousands of NMR spectral data and integrated to various other RSC systems including an educational wiki and a spectral game.
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Why is it important?
When the crowd comes together to help provide a centralized service for hosting spectral data the data can be repurposed and reused in many ways including to support structure identification and teaching spectroscopy.
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This page is a summary of: ChemSpider: How a Free Community Resource of Data Can Support the Teaching of NMR Spectroscopy, January 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS),
DOI: 10.1021/bk-2013-1128.ch020.
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Teaching NMR using online resources from RSC
The Royal Society of Chemistry hosts an online resource, ChemSpider, as a structure centric database for chemists linking over 25 million chemicals to 400 internet sites. As a crowdsourced environment members of the chemistry community can deposit spectral data to the database. Almost 2000 NMR spectra have been submitted to the database and these are the basis of both a gaming environment for learning NMR spectroscopy,the SpectralGame, as well as a new teaching environment known as SpectraSchool
RSC ChemSpider as an environment for teaching and sharing chemistry
ChemSpider is an online database of almost 25 million chemical compounds linked out to over 400 different internet resources. Together with its partner site, ChemSpider SyntheticPages, a crowdsourced database of reaction syntheses, these two resources provide an environment where chemists can deposit, share, source and use the data as the basis of lesson plans, games and developing deeper understanding in chemistry.
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