From: will jones (willjones46$##$hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 13:46:45 EST
I've tried using that site before and also found it a bit thin. If you could
make the submission process easy, and somehow have the ability to search by
structure, then I guess you would be onto a winner.
If you could also put in a 'section of failed reactions, but should have
worked' then that would be awesome.
Will
>From: "Clyde Davies" <deadlyvices$##$hotmail.com>
>To: <nigel$##$pierpoint.u-net.com>
>CC: everybody$##$orglist.net
>Subject: RE: ORGLIST: Synthetic Methods Wiki
>Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:24:44 -0000
>
>I had a look: it's a bit thin, isn't it? It's been going for about 5
>years
>and it doesn't have very much in it. Why do people think that might be?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: everybody-bounces$##$orglist.net [mailto:everybody-bounces$##$orglist.net]
>On Behalf Of nigel$##$pierpoint.u-net.com
>Sent: 20 February 2006 15:33
>To: Clyde Davies
>Cc: everybody$##$orglist.net
>Subject: Re: ORGLIST: Synthetic Methods Wiki
>
>Dear all,
>
>You might want to check out this site
>
>http://www.syntheticpages.org
>
>
>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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