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Re: ACS News
by Vasanta Kalluri 24 Apr '97

24 Apr '97

I tried to access the ACS site and couldn't through the Chemweb. Clicking on members/join did not work. I tried this on 24 april at 9:55am (United States Eastern time) -Vasanta Kalluri chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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ACS News
by Dr Wendy Warr 24 Apr '97

24 Apr '97

Links to ACS News on ChemWeb.com now work fine. Thank you someone at Chemweb Inc. who must have done a very quick fix! If anyone on this list now wants to see the news he/she should visit http://chemweb.com and click on Join or Members (depending on whether he/she is already a member or not). -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr and 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. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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RE: ACS Meeting
by Bill Town 23 Apr '97

23 Apr '97

On April 14th, Henry Rzepa wrote >I wonder if anyone on this list (which seems to be back to normal!) might >be going to the ACS meeting and might wish to post a report >which they might consider relevant to the list? The ChemWeb.com website (http://chemweb.com/) which was launched commercially at the ACS meeting, carried daily news reports on the ChemWeb.com home page last week. These reports will remain accessible from there for the next week or so. Bill Town, Operations Director, ChemWeb, Inc. chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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ACS News
by Dr Wendy Warr 23 Apr '97

23 Apr '97

Not sure if everyone will know where to find ACS News at http://www.chemweb.com. When I myself visit the site I have to click on Members, then enter my name and password, before I get to any page that mentions ACS. Clicking on the ACS News item about Cabernet Sauvignon then leads to my own news snippets but clicking on the aromatous coffee item ledas not to coffee but to lots of good news that I had never seen before. Perhaps someone else would like to brwose and comment. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr and 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. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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CAS Number lookup
by Steven Abbott 21 Apr '97

21 Apr '97

Thanks for all the feedback on CAS Number lookup. It was right to point out that there are millions of CAS numbers - so my search for a simple database seemed hopeless. But most of us, most of the time, are dealing with 'ordinary' chemicals so I'd thought that a database able to cover, say, those listed in the CHIP regulations books might be readily available. Wouldn't it be an act of kindness for someone to issue such a simple list? Of course one can pay to look up these numbers with STN etc. - but I was looking for something free for my own PC. Although I looked at quite a few web sites with free CAS Number lookup, none was much use. But the ECDIN site recommended by Michael Barker (thanks!) was superb. It gave a 100% hit on the odd selection of numbers I threw at it - plus it gives lots of other data. Today it says it is changing its URL from http://ulisse.ei.jrc.it/Ecdin/Ecdin.html Unfortunately the message telling of the change is ambiguous. It's either: http://ulisse.etoit.eudra.org/Ecdin/Ecdin.html or just http://ulisse.etoit.eudra.org as of a few minutes ago the first one worked and neither of the second two did, so I don't know when the swap will take place. Many thanks for all your help Steve Steven Abbott steven(a)abbott.demon.co.uk http://www.autotype.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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World Index of Chime Tutorials
by Rzepa, Henry 20 Apr '97

20 Apr '97

Might I bring to your attention this excellent collection of Chime'd biomolecular materials from around the world, compiled and contributed to by Eric Martz; http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/tutbymol.htm Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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CAS Number lookup
by Steven Abbott 18 Apr '97

18 Apr '97

This may be a FAQ, but I can't remember it being one ... Someone in my company came to me with a CAS Number and wanted to know its chemical name. Although we have a book of names and numbers it is only suitable for name to number (except in some lucky cases). I assumed it would be trivial to find a way of doing it on the WWW - but although I found a couple of sites that offered such lookup as a free service (and my thanks go to them), their databases were too small and didn't have my particular CAS Number. They were focussed on giving the data on the chemicals, and putting all that data on all those chemicals would be a Herculean task. But I'm not asking for a database which gives all the information on the chemical - all I want is CAS Number --> chemical name. I can do the rest myself. What is the legal status of CAS Numbers? I'd assumed that they were public property for the good of us all. So I assumed it was possible for anyone to get hold of a copy of the code so we can put it on our computers and swap easily between name and number. A simple ASCII table would be all one needs - bringing it into a simple database package would be trivial. Thanks Steve Steven Abbott steven(a)abbott.demon.co.uk http://www.autotype.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: CAS Number lookup
by jsb2＠camsoft.com 18 Apr '97

18 Apr '97

>What is the legal status of CAS Numbers? I'd assumed that they were >public property for the good of us all. So I assumed it was possible >for anyone to get hold of a copy of the code so we can put it on our >computers and swap easily between name and number. A simple ASCII >table would be all one needs - bringing it into a simple database >package would be trivial. Databases generally fall under rules concerning "collection copyright". I am not a lawyer, but that is where you should start looking. The CAS numbers might be a more-complicated case, because not only did CAS gather them (as might a phone company), but it also authored them. Regardless, I don't know of many "simple" databases that can handle 16 million-odd records. :-} The database you are looking for is the CAS Registry File. Available from CAS, and from authorized distributors (Dialog, Questel, Beilstein (I think), etc.) Jonathan Brecher CambridgeSoft Corporation jsb(a)camsoft.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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ECTOC-3: Final Reminder-Abstracts due by 25 April
by Rzepa, Henry 18 Apr '97

18 Apr '97

ECTOC-3 Call for Articles and Posters. Final Reminder. ECTOC-3 is the third in the series of pioneering electronic conferences in the area of Organic Chemistry. This one is has the overall theme of Organometallic Chemistry. As with the first two conference, we expect that proceedings will be published in CD-ROM form, thus retaining all the active chemistry, and 3D coordinate models that can be submitted as part of the contribution. Discussions will be active during the period 30 June - 31 July 1997 Further information can be obtained via the URL http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ectoc/ectoc-3/ You can also inspect the CD-ROM of ECHET96, which is available as part of issue 6 of the RSC journal ChemComm. Abstract contributions should be submitted no later than April 25, 1997 via the page http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ectoc/ectoc-3/ectoc_sub.html or by sending an e-mail to ectoc-3-contrib(a)ic.ac.uk The ECTOC-3 mailing list can be subscribed to by sending an e-mail to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk with the entry subscribe ectoc-3 Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Archive of Chemweb
by Rzepa, Henry 14 Apr '97

14 Apr '97

Please note that as a result of moving over to Majordomo as a listserver, our new archive is on http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/index.html This offers the additional advantages that a) its structured by monthly postings b) its keyword searchable. Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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