Hi, April's Molecule of the Month is Capsaicin, the chemical in chillis that makes them hot. It was written by an undergraduate student, Matt Bellringer, here at Bristol, and was one of the winners at last year's ExemplarChem competition. MOTM: <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> ICQ: 107669629 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> "Memes don't work. Pass it on." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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)