From paul.may at bristol.ac.uk Wed May 1 09:10:59 2002 From: paul.may at bristol.ac.uk (Paul May) Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 09:10:59 +0100 (BST) Subject: Molecule of the Month - May - Etorphine Message-ID: <200205010810.g418Ax011914@mole.chm.bris.ac.uk> Hi, The Molecule of the Month for May is Etorphine, which is related to morphine, and is used in the darts that tranquilise elephants. It has been written by Simon Cotton of Uppingham School, and all 4 versions are available. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm#may2002 Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 928-9927 fax: +44 (0)117 925-1295 Mobile: 07811371539 Home URL: Molecule of the Month: "Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will kill the strongest man" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb at ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk) From m.winter at sheffield.ac.uk Wed May 1 12:31:06 2002 From: m.winter at sheffield.ac.uk (Mark Winter) Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 12:31:06 +0100 Subject: The Orbitron: a gallery of orbitals on the WWW Message-ID: Greetings I'd like to announce The Orbitron: a gallery of orbitals on the WWW * Images representing orbitals * Animated plots of wave functions * Animated plots of electron density * "Dot-density" plots of electron density (Chime required for this feature) * Plots of radial distribution functions The address is http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/orbitron/ The images and animations are ray-traced representations which I hope will help visualization. The "dot-density" plots also aid visualization, but in a vey different way. This feature requires you to have the Chime plug-in installed. I'd appreciate comments as it's early days yet More features on the way! Regards -- Dr Mark J Winter Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 222 9304 fax: +44 (0)114 222 9303 e-m: mark.winter at sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.webelements.com/ The Sheffield Chemdex is a listing of chemistry sites on the world-wide web: http://www.chemdex.org/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb at ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk) From paul.may at bristol.ac.uk Fri May 31 12:03:09 2002 From: paul.may at bristol.ac.uk (Paul May) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:03:09 +0100 (BST) Subject: Molecule of the Month - June Message-ID: <200205311103.g4VB39N14071@mole.chm.bris.ac.uk> Hi, June's MOTM is Tryptophan, which is the controvesial food supplement that has often been hyped as "nature's prozac". It has been written by Kimberly Dick from ACD Labs in Toronto, Canada. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm#jun2002 Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 928-9927 fax: +44 (0)117 925-1295 Mobile: 07811371539 Home URL: Molecule of the Month: "Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will kill the strongest man" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb at ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk) From C.Nitsche at mdl.com Fri May 31 14:53:19 2002 From: C.Nitsche at mdl.com (Carmen Nitsche) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 06:53:19 -0700 Subject: Need feedback from users of electronic journals Message-ID: Dear List Members-- I am preparing my talk for the 2002 International Chemical Information Conference, where I will be revisiting the subject "What end-users want and need from e-journals." The first time I addressed this topic, at the 1998 meeting, I sent around a survey to this list. I thought it would be appropriate and interesting to poll this group again for my upcoming talk. If you are an actual user of e-journals could you please spare 5 minutes to respond to the following 14-question survey? 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