From: Clyde Davies (deadlyvices$##$hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 08:36:34 EST
I mooted this idea some time ago, but really haven't had the chance to do
anything about it, so I'm sending out this posting to gauge the likely level
of interest before I do any work on it.
I am proposing to set up a Wiki, accessible to anyone, which would
concentrate on practical methods for organic chemistry. When I did my PhD
as a physical chemist, some time ago before I got involved in Drug Discovery
IT, I was given the job of making tetracyanobenzene. This took me months
when it should have taken me only a few days and this was because I hadn't
purified my solvents properly. Eventually I got some, and I lamented the
absence of any really practical knowledge that I could call upon in my own
department. If someone had said to me 'dry your DMF over calcium hydride
first' then this would have solved all my problems and save me a lot of
anguish.
I think that an openly accessible, openly editable, *practically oriented*
handbook of organic chemical transformations would be of immense benefit.
It would be free, it would be topical, and it would cut out the editorial
process which, in this case, is hardly necessary. Chemists branching out
into unfamiliar areas need a central, reliable and up-to-date resource they
can call upon. The need is there, the tools are there, all I am proposing
to do is to bring them together.
If I get some positive response from this I will need help in setting this
up. I cannot do it all by myself, so if anyone can help with free or cheap
Wiki hosting, designing the format of the Wiki, contributing material etc.
then please do so.
Regards
Dr. D C Davies
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