Re: ORGLIST: Synthetic Methods Wiki

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From: Darren Rhodes (darren.rhodes$##$gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 08:46:40 EST

Why not hijack wikipedia?

Also, a very useful resource is the sci.chem faq
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sci/chem-faq/

(Very good idea btw ... consider raising it on sci.chem).

On 2/20/06, Clyde Davies <deadlyvices$##$hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Regards
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> Dr. D C Davies
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