November 2000 - chemweb - imperial.ac.uk

Distance learning
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

I am posting this for Dr. Nikodem Miranowicz. Wendy Dear list readers, Lately, in the Laboratory of Chemical Education at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland), we have started a little educational project on distance learning. It is first our step into teaching students how to draw structures and to model molecules we did by Internet. If You have a time, please take a look at our project at http://chem214.chemd.amu.edu.pl/intins/INTINS.html. Send me your comments. May be you'll find it somehow usefull for yourself. For 10 years I'm doing my university classes on the use of computers in chemistry and chemistry education (structure drawing, modelling, simulations, Internet sources, hipermedia authoring etc). We use textbooks and classical methods of programmed learning. Today I am forced by the fact that students starts to prefere to use Internet and not to come to the faculty late at the evening for exercises. I started our project with a simple and structurised set of animations showing how to draw a structure with ChemDraw or ISISDraw or prepare a model with Chem3D. Next step is to introduce interactive tools for controlling students attempts to properly draw a structure. We are doing this with ChemOffice ChemDraw plug-in. As for now students like it. Best regards dr Nikodem Miranowicz Laboratory Of Chemical Education Adam Mickiewicz University ul.Grunwaldzka 6 60-780 Poznan, Poland http://main.amu.edu.pl/~nmiran/ http://main.amu.edu.pl/~zdch/ -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Molecule of the Month - December
by Paul May 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

Hi, December's Molecule of the Month is the notorious defoliant 2,4,5-T (Agent Orange). The site was written by Bristol student John Hardy as an entry for last year's ExemplarChem competition (http://www.chemsoc.org/exemplarchem/home.htm) run by the RSC. He actually one won of the prizes. It acts as a good example for this year's competition, which looks like having 70 academic departments taking part... The page is available in 3 versions, HTML-only, Chime and VRML. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 928-9927, fax: +44 (0)117 925-1295 <mailto:paul.may@bris.ac.uk> Home URL: <http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm> Molecule of the Month: <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm> "If at first you don't succeed, call it Version 1.0" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Cheminformatics vacancy
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 26 Nov '00

26 Nov '00

Apologies for duplicate postings. I have a colleague seeking a cheminformatics expert for a permanent position in Australia. The job involves the planning, development and implementation of an integrated matinformatics, cheminformatics and bioinformatics system (i.e., databases and analysis and modelling tools) customised to the companys requirements. If you would like further details, and already live in Australia, or are prepared to relocate, please contact me, wendy(a)warr.com, NOT the whole list! Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Will journals have a place in the future ?
by Michael Engel 17 Nov '00

17 Nov '00

Will journals still exist in the future ? I recently noticed a change in the way of thinking. Does it matter if you publish in JACS or Inorg.Chem. or another title of ACS ? (I know it still matters, but...) In the approaching electronic/online/internet age, names (and reputations) are loosing its value. The name of different journals are only different URLs and as journals are sold en-bloc, who cares about the actual journal ? The brandname is or will become ACS (or RSC, Wiley, ScienceDirect, etc). Do we actually see a transformation into databases ? I see big chances ahead, if publications could then change into extractable publications, using XML, CML, etc. Our search possibilities would dramatically increase and make life much easier. That's not good for CAS, however, if they don't find a possibility to add value. Also printing (or downloading to electronic readers) could then be customized. I am really looking forward to such changes. We are approaching a new world, brave or not, we will see. Best regards Michael Engel chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Fwd: Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2001
by Rzepa, Henry 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

I wonder what, in general, is happening in the chemistry area? Are electronic theses in chemistry widely accepted? For those that are, are they "emasculated" chemically? By this I mean they appear in eg Acrobat form, with no easily extractable chemical components (coordinates, connection tables, spectra, etc). Are they indexed, and if so, what meta data is associated with them? Do e-dissertation projects provide good tools for authors, or are the authors expected to do it all? >ETD 2001, the Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and >Dissertations, will be held at the California Institute of Technology in >Pasadena, California, on March 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2001. > >ETD 2001 is a forum for academic administration officials, >information-technology professionals, and librarians interested in providing >easy access to theses and dissertations by making them available online. > >The conference will cover a broad range of topics: from the technology >necessary to make it happen to organizational and policy issues that arise >when a university institutes ETDs. A list of confirmed speakers and session >topics is available at http://library.caltech.edu/etd/Confirmed.htm > >A limited number of sessions are available for contributed papers and poster >presentations. Please, go to >http://library.caltech.edu/etd/CallforPapers.htm for details on the call for >papers. The deadline for submitting contributed papers and/or posters is >January 15th, 2001. Please send proposed title and abstract to >mailto:jhagen2@wvu.edu. > >For full details on conference schedule, program, and location, please go to >the conference web site at http://library.caltech.edu/etd/ > >Online registration will open in early December. -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0870) 132-3747 (eFax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Amaya 4.0
by Rzepa, Henry 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Amaya is a Windows only browser that Dave Raggett uses to illustrate cutting edge Web standards. The latest version 4.0 is very impressive, supporting natively the SVG DOM (Document object model, an acronym used to define marked-up components of the document; normally HTML but in this case also SVG). You can edit the SVG on the pages. It also supports the MathML DOM, and you can edit math expressions as well. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html This, if I can put it this way, is what browsers SHOULD have been from 1994 onwards, instead of the infernal GIF image. -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0870) 132-3747 (eFax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Molecule of the Month - November
by Paul May 01 Nov '00

01 Nov '00

Hi, November's MOTM is dinitrophenylethanedioate, or DNPO for short. It's the molecule which forms the basis of Cyalume "light sticks" used by divers for emergency and underwater lighting, fishing lures and various novelty items such as glow necklaces. Since 1980 molecules like these have become widely used as analytical tools for trace analysis and are currently the most sensitive and versatile chemiluminescence detection method for liquid chromatography. The MOTM page has been adapted from a set of pages at Leeds University written by Daniel Ormsby called "The Delights of Chemistry", in which various spectacular and visually impressive chemical reactions are described. This MOTM page is available in HTML, Chime and Chemsymphony versions. Direct link: http://chem.leeds.ac.uk/delights/texts/expt_26.html MOTM page : http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm Delights of Chemistry: http://chem.leeds.ac.uk/delights/ Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 928-9927, fax: +44 (0)117 925-1295 <mailto:paul.may@bris.ac.uk> Home URL: <http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm> Molecule of the Month: <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm> "If at first you don't succeed, call it Version 1.0" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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