I wonder how we might check to see if a MOTM is operating in the USA? I do remember seeing something some time ago. Might be a) nice to link if there is b) Nice to act as a global centre if there is not!

I am unaware of any MOTM site in the States. There is a MOTM page in Spain at the University of Zaragoza http://lrf1.unizar.es/lrf/motm/I_lrfmotm_actual.html I am creating a WWW site for Instructors of Chemistry and hope to be online by Feb. Part of the site will be a Molecule of the Week, of interest to chemistry educators. The first molecule will be NO, which is used in high school and intro college chem courses here as an exception to the octet rule. The interesting thing about NO is that it has been implicated in regulating agression in male mice (Nature 378, 383-386, 1995). This finding might stimulate some interesting background discusson in intro chem courses when the somewhat boring Lewis structures are presented. James A. Dix dix@chemiris.chem.binghamton.edu Associate Professor dix@binghamton.edu Chemistry Department, Box 6016 bg0681@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu State University of New York voice: (607) 777-2480 Binghamton, NY 13902-6016 USA fax: (607) 777-4478 on sabbatical leave 1995-1996: Los Alamos National Laboratory dix@t10.lanl.gov Theoretical Biology and Biophysics voice: (505) 665-3853 T10, MS 710, TA3-SM483, Rm 103A (505) 667-7510 Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA fax: (505) 665-3493 ----- 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)