Welcome to Issue 6.04 of the "Organic Chemistry e-Newsletter".
A newsletter for industrial/academic organic and medicinal chemists.

In this issue:

1. ChemSpider
2. Molecules of the Month (April 2007)
3. Upcoming Organic Synthesis Conferences (May 2007)
4. SPECTRa
5. SyntheticPages

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1. ChemSpider

An online resource for chemists to search, aggregate and datamine publicly available chemical data. In addition, access is provided to a series of property prediction algorithms. The database contains over 10 million compounds.

http://www.chemspider.com

2. Molecules of the Month (April 2007)

Sodium nitrate: used as fertilizer, food preservative and ingredient in glass and ceramics.

Polyvinyl alcohol: polymer used in a wide range of applications (vapor barrier in soda bottles, thickening agent etc.).

Rhodamine 6G: a fluorescent molecule, used to detect biological compounds at the single molecule level.

Fluoroantimonic acid: the strongest superacid known.

http://www.chemistry.org

Glucose: The sugary source of energy for plants and animals.

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

Ticagrelor: developed as antiplatelet drug.

http://www.prous.com/molecules/default.asp?ID=158

3. Upcoming Organic Synthesis Conferences (May 2007)

MipTec
May 7-10, Basel, Switzerland

18th Lakeland Heterocyclic Symposium
May 10-14, Grasmere, United Kingdom

Organic Process Research & Development - The Original Process Development Conference!
May 14-17, Jersey, Channel Islands

Learning Organic Synthesis Tremendously (LOST ?) : From experiments to knowledge
May 21-23, Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

All details about these conferences and other upcoming conferences can be found at http://www.organicworldwide.net/conferen.html

4. SPECTRa

In the SPECTRa project (Submission, Preservation and Exposure of Chemistry Teaching and Research Data), a set of customized software tools are developed to enable chemists to routinely deposit experimental data in Open Access digital repositories.

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/spectra/

5. SyntheticPages

SyntheticPages is a free database of practical procedures for research workers in synthetic chemistry.

http://www.syntheticpages.org

























































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