Hi, April's Molecule of the Month has been written by Freelance Science writer David Bradley, and was originally part of his Elemental Discoveries article. The molecule is Cyclooctene, and is interesting because it gives some evidence to one of the theories of how the specificity of handedness in Natural molecules came about... Normal and Chime versions are avilable: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may@bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "If you broke a mirror with a horseshoe, would you get 7 years of ambiguity?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)