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Molecule of the Month
- apo 8y agoIt used to be really hard to find free chemical information online. I remember this site was one of the few back in the 90s that had anything on the topic. Chemistry was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Internet Age. The field is still a laggard. As evidence, consider the aversion of chemists as a group to preprint servers and their over-reliance on paywalled journals with hypervigilant exclusivity policies. Glad to see Molecule of the Month hasn't changed style in many years.
- kayhi 8y agoWhat information are you trying to find?
- jjoonathan 8y agoSpectra, rate constants / energy measurements, that sort of thing. Even simple CRC fare doesn't have good representation in public databases.
- tomjakubowski 8y agohttps://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/ https://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/ is pretty good and, for some reason, always hard for me to find again when I need it. This time I'll just bookmark it.
- ritwikgupta 8y agoI would like to mention https://pqr.pitt.edu https://pqr.pitt.edu, where you can play around with molecules with your fingertips and get specific data about them! Note: I helped develop PQR.
- NKosmatos 8y agoWow, those are very nice, informative and pretty fast 3D visualizations!!! Just a small bug(or a feature), when you are viewing a molecule and remove the surface you can’t switch it back on (from Safari on iPad).
- ritwikgupta 8y agoCan't take credit for the 3D visualizations! That's all 3Dmol.js (https://github.com/3dmol/3Dmol.js https://github.com/3dmol/3Dmol.js). Fantastic work overall out of the University of Pittsburgh!
- xrd 8y agoFantastic. Amazing. Well done.
- xrd 8y agoMolecule of the Month linked there is broken. I'll keep checking back but is someone aware of that?
- xrd 8y agoErr, "molecule of the week."
- ritwikgupta 8y agoAh, just noticed that. I'll let the current devs know! Thanks!
- sk5t 8y agoExcellent reading. However I must note that the page for ethylene glycol appears to lead with a photo of windshield washer fluid (ammonia / alcohol / soap), not coolant.
- tlb 8y agoEthylene glycol is used in windshield washer fluid in cold climates, up to 5% concentration, as it helps de-ice windshields.
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- Bjartr 8y agoI know of another site doing a Molecule of the Month articles[1] that I currently have in my RSS rotation. As an aside, I wholeheartedly recommend the book "The Machinery of Life"[2] by David Goodsell, the author of that site. The illustrations in the book have the same style as the site I linked, and have the important feature, IMO, of having a consistent scale[3] throughout the book, which helps put a lot of the molecules in a more understandable context. [1] https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm [2] http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/goodsell/books/MoL2-preview.html http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/goodsell/books/MoL2-preview.ht... [3] IIRC it was two distinct scales, but still, it was a nice touch
- fourmii 8y agoThanks for sharing this! Can't wait to show my son who has just recently taken to memorizing the periodic table and has found joy in learning about different molecules and compounds!
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- singingfish 8y agohttp://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/?s=things+I+won%27t+work+with http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/?s=things+I+won%27t+wor... is brilliant.