From: nigel$##$pierpoint.u-net.com
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 10:33:27 EST
Dear all,
You might want to check out this site
This site does near enough what you require.
Reactions of any kind can be added, with individual comments specific to
that reaction added by the auther. If other peaple try to repeat the
reaction and find other useful additions these can also be added.
Its free and has been going now for some time.
cheers
Nigel
Clyde Davies writes:
> 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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