From: Jonas Sundberg (gussujon$##$student.gu.se)
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 08:56:51 EST
Hi!
I think this sounds like a wonderful idea, and I've actually been thinking about something like it too.
I might have the posibility to set it up for free on a friends server but it's on a rather low bandwidht but it should work OK. I have also experience with using MediaWiki's software but I'm not a good designer so if someone could help out with designing a template it would be nice.
/Jonas
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>>From Clyde Davies <deadlyvices$##$hotmail.com>
Sent Mon 20/02/2006 14:36
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Subject ORGLIST: Synthetic Methods Wiki
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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