Organic Chemistry Newsletter Worldwide Vol. 2, No. 7 (July 2003)

Welcome to Issue 2.7 of the "Organic Chemistry Newsletter". This newsletter focuses on industrial/academic organic and medicinal chemists and is distributed by subscription only.

In this issue (July and August editions feature 5 items):

1. Solvent Removal in Organic Synthesis
2. Molecules of the Month (July 2003)
3. Upcoming Organic Chemistry Conferences (August 2003)
4. CLiDE
5. The Chemical Thesaurus v3.1

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1. Solvent Removal in Organic Synthesis

The speed and ease of solvent removal is an important issue in organic laboratories, especially when handling a large number of samples as in parallel synthesis.

http://www.organicworldwide.net/evaporation.html

2. Molecules of the Month (July 2003)

Acridine orange: used to distinguish DNA from RNA

Levodopa: helps treat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, shingles, and restless leg syndrome

Linalool: intoxicates the olfactory senses in a wide range of perfumery applications and fine cosmetics

http://www.chemistry.org

Caeruloplasmin: an enigmatic copper metalloprotein

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm

Cinacalcet hydrochloride: a calcimimetic agent that has proven effective in the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism, a common complication of chronic kidney disease

http://www.prous.com/mom/mom.asp

3. Upcoming Organic Chemistry Conferences (August 2003)

19th International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry
August 10-15, 2003, USA

http://www.19ichc.colostate.edu/

4. CLiDE

CLiDE is a chemistry intelligent equivalent of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. Just as an OCR can recognize characters from a scanned images of printed text, CLiDE can recognize structures, reactions and text from scanned images of printed chemistry literature

http://www.simbiosys.ca/clide/index.html

5. The Chemical Thesaurus v3.1

A free (for personal use) reaction chemistry information system that removes the artificial barriers between organic chemistry and other areas of chemistry.

http://www.meta-synthesis.com/Products/ChemThes3.html

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