Hi, colleagues, The disposal of old chemical samples is costly and generates environmental problem, while old samples can be used for many other screening purposes. However, there are many technical problems regarding samples management. As one of the two Section Conveners of Section E of The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry (ECSOC-2, at http://mdpi.org/ecsoc-2.htm), I would like to invite chemists contribute short papers expressing ideas on the samples preservation project. The format might be that of the short comments published in many journals. MDPI published MOLECULES (http://mdpi.org/molecules/) is the first journal encouraging chemists to deposit and exchange samples. In order to promote this activity, I thought about purchasing ca. 0.5 g ( or any amount 5mg-500g) of samples of the rare compounds described in any MOLECULES papers. The nonprofit organization MDPI has put great efforts on collecting all old samples from retired professors and in many cases pay cash to purchase all of them. MDPI further rewards sample contributor afterwards if any part of the samples are sold in the worldwide samples exchange project (For more information, please visit http://mdpi.org/ website). It has been my dream that no old samples are trashed but all are preserved by MDPI. I would like to open active discussions at Section E, where the topic includes "Information and Compound Archives Management and Internet Application: Molecular diversity studies, literature, databases, chemical sample libraries, and 2D and 3D structural presentation". If you have any comment, please let me know. I will appreciate it if you support us. Shu-Kun Lin President of MDPI Editor, MOLECULES (vol.3 1998) --------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Shu-Kun Lin Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Saengergasse 25, CH-4054 Basel, Switzerland http://www.mdpi.org/ MOLECULES http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/ ECSOC-2 http://www.mdpi.org/ecsoc-2.htm E-mail lin@mdpi.org Tel. +41 79 322 3379, Fax +41 61 302 8918 -------------------------------------------------------- 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)