Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter

Chemistry Library Newsletter - Spring 2008

2008-04-28T14:36:00.000-07:00

Chemistry Library Newsletter

Spring 2008

1. New Databases

Project Prospect (Royal Society of Chemistry)
Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry
ToxSeek (National Library of Medicine)
Human Metabolome Project
ETDEWEB (Energy Technology Data Exchange World Energy Base)

2. New Journals / Collections of Articles

Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry
Energy & Environmental Science (edited by N. Lewis)
Climate Change: State of the Art (2001-2007)

3. New e-book volumes

BioNanotechnology (Synthesis Lect. Biomed. Eng.; 7) – see CLAS for URL
BioTechniques' protocol guide – see CLAS for URL
Structure and Bonding – see e-Journals for URL
Topics in Current Chemistry – see e-Journals for URL
Topics in Organometallic Chemistry – see e-Journals for URL

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1. New Databases

*** Project Prospect
http://www.projectprospect.org/

Royal Society of Chemistry journals now offer structure searching thru Project Prospect.

Prospect enhanced (recent) HTML articles provide definitions, synonyms, structures and RSS feeds.

Project Prospect and the new structure and sub-structure searching function is described at:
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/structuresearch.asp

***Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780470862100/eic/topics

The Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd edition, continues to present articles in alphabetical order, but the content has been slightly reorganized to the following subject areas:

Bioinorganic Chemistry
Catalysis
General Principles
Inorganic and Coordination Chemistry
Main Group Elements
Organometallic Chemistry
Physical Methods
Solid State, Materials and Nanomaterials
Transition Metals

Quite a number of new articles have been added to the Physical Methods category, for example:

Electron Spin Echo Envelope Modulation (ESEEM) Spectroscopy
Freeze-Quench Kinetics
High-Energy Electron Diffraction
High Resolution Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy (HREELS)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy of Metallobiomolecules
Nuclear Resonant Vibrational Spectroscopy (NRVS)
X-Ray Powder Diffraction

The right side of the home page has a ‘SEARCH THIS TITLE’ box …
the following is a sampling of articles that refer to Ruthenium.

Ruthenium: Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry
Sylviane Sabo-Etienne, Mary Grellier

Ruthenium: Organometallic Chemistry
Rosemary E. White, Timothy P. Hanusa

Organic Synthesis Using Metal-Mediated Metathesis Reactions
Rebecca M. Kissling, Steven P. Nolan

Bonding Energetics of Organometallic Compounds
Reto Dorta, Steven P. Nolan

Metal-Based Drugs
C. Frank Shaw

Supported Organotransition Metal Compounds
Brian E. Hanson

***ToxSeek
http://toxseek.nlm.nih.gov/

An updated version of ToxSeek, an NLM metasearch engine and clustering tool, enables the simultaneous searching of many different toxicology and environmental health information databases and web sites.

ToxSeek enhancements include:

A new spell checker with English and medical dictionaries
Automatic inclusion of medical subject headings (MeSH) in the subject clusters
Addition of TOXMAP and ToxTown
Refinements to the search strategies of the CPSC and CDC sites
Addition of WHO (World Health Organization).

***Human Metabolome Project
http://www.hmdb.ca/

The Human Metabolome Project seeks to be "the chemical equivalent of the Human Genome Project", producing a database of human metabolites.

Since 2004 the project has assembled the current inventory of roughly 2,500 molecules produced by metabolic reactions in body tissues and fluids -- and though this may be only 10% of the human metabolome (nobody really knows) it is a useful starting point, and a unique database.

***U.S. DOE Service - ETDEWEB
http://www.etde.org/etdeweb

Set up a free e-mail alert account and receive information on a wide variety of energy-related research through a new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) service—ETDEWEB (Energy Technology Data Exchange World Energy Base).

Information is available from 16 ETDE member countries. Users can target information of interest and then choose whether to receive updates on a weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual basis. Registration is required.

2. New Journals / Collections of Articles

***Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/toc/anchem/forthcoming

A sampling of ‘AR Reviews in Advance’, which are full-length reviews published online immediately after editing and revision:

Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy
Shigeru Amemiya , Allen J. Bard …
Biomolecule Analysis by Ion Mobility Spectrometry
Brian C. Bohrer … David E. Clemmer
Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Imaging Mass Spectrometry … Proteins and Peptides
Kristin E. Burnum … Richard M. Caprioli
Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Characterization of Microorganisms
Plamen A. Demirev , Catherine Fenselau
Fundamentals of Protein Separations: 50 Years of Nanotechnology and Growing
David Egas , Mary J. Wirth
Combining Self-Assembled Monolayers and Mass Spectrometry for Applications in Biochips
Zachary A. Gurard-Levin , Milan Mrksich
Novel Detection Schemes of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Applications from Analytical Chemistry to Molecular Sensors
Elad Harel , Leif Schröder , Shoujun Xu
A Personal Journey of Discovery: Developing Technology and Changing Biology
Leroy Hood
Liposomes: Technologies and Analytical Applications
Aldo Jesorka , Owe Orwar
High-Resolution Mass Spectrometers
Alan G. Marshall , Christopher L. Hendrickson
Analysis of Atmospheric Aerosols
Kimberly A. Prather, Courtney D. Hatch, Vicki H. Grassian

***Energy & Environmental Science
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/EE/

Energy & Environmental Science is launching summer 2008. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor Nathan Lewis (Caltech). The journal will link all aspects of the chemical sciences by publishing original research and authoritative reviews relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies, and environmental science. Accepted articles will benefit from huge exposure, will be free-to-access for all, and will be published online in a citable form as soon as they are ready.

***Climate Change: State of the Art (2001-2007)
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/toc/climate/1/1

Articles selected from previously published Annual Review volumes.

Human Impacts on Atmospheric Chemistry (2001)
PJ Crutzen and , J Lelieveld

The Aral Sea Disaster (2007)
Philip Micklin

Using the Paleorecord to Evaluate Climate and Fire Interactions in Australia (2007)
Amanda H. Lynch, Jason Beringer, et.al.

The General Circulation of the Atmosphere (2006)
Tapio Schneider

Balancing the Global Carbon Budget (2007)
R.A. Houghton

Wally Was Right: Predictive Ability of the North Atlantic “Conveyor Belt” Hypothesis for Abrupt Climate Change (2007)
Richard B. Alley

Climate Over the Past Two Millennia (2007)
Michael E. Mann

3. New e-book volumes

BioNanotechnology (Synthesis Lect. Biomed. Eng.; 7) – see CLAS for URL

BioTechniques' protocol guide – see CLAS for URL

Structure and Bonding < http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/110355/ >

Ferro- and Antiferroelectricity; Order/Disorder versus Displacive, v.124
Halogen Bonding; Fundamentals and Applications, v.126
High Energy Density Materials, v.125
Liquid Crystalline Functional Assemblies and Their Supramolecular Structures, v. 128
Photofunctional Transition Metal Complexes, v.123

Topics in Current Chemistry < http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/110311/ >

Combinatorial chemistry on solid supports, v. 278)
Creative chemical sensor systems, v. 277)
Metal catalyzed reductive C-C bond formation, v. 279)
Photochemistry and photophysics of coordination compounds, v. 280-281)

Topics in Organometallic Chemistry < http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/110319/ >

Directed metallation, v. 24)

Chemistry Library Newsletter - Winter 2007-2008

2008-02-05T14:18:00.001-08:00

Chemistry Library Newsletter
Winter 2007-2008

1. SciFinder Scholar 2007
2. ACS Nanotation
3. Chemical Reviews - Perennial Reviews (Web Only Content)
4. Sigma-Aldrich Cell Signalling Pathfinders
5. New Electronic Books & Journals

1. SciFinder Scholar 2007

The 2007 version of SciFinder Scholar is available for downloading at:
• http://library.caltech.edu/publications/scifinder/index.html

Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
• Intel x86 or Power PC G4 or G5 processor
• Safari (OS X default) or a Mac OS X compatible version of Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)

MAC OS 9 will NOT be supported after 12/31/07

Some older Macs (G3 processor) will NO longer be supported.
• http://library.caltech.edu/publications/scifinder/SFS07Mac.htm

Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP3 or higher), XP (SP1 or SP2), or Vista
• Microsoft IE 5 or higher, Netscape 7 or higher, or Firefox 1.0 or higher

SciFinder Scholar 2006 continues to be supported.

DS Visualizer 1.5 (or earlier) required for 3D viewing

See full SciFinder Scholar system requirements at:
• http://www.cas.org/support/academic/sf/systreq2007.html

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SciFinder Scholar 2007 - New features include:

Categorize your Reference Answer Set
• enables you to sort your answer sets by creating a histogram based on subject categories/substances. After displaying references, click on Analyze/Refine.

Export information from CHEMCATS into Excel spreadsheets for sorting and manipulation.

More than 13 million single- and multi-step reactions
More than 1 billion predicted and experimental properties

All patent records, meeting CAS selection criteria, from 9 of the major patent offices are available online within 2 days of the patents' issuance

Sequences combined from CAS and GenBank databases, are indexed and linked to scientific journal and patent literature.

Identify enzymatically catalyzed reactions for Industrial Applications
• Search for a reaction, then limit to Biosynthetic …

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During 2007, the following content was added:

• More than 85,000 proton NMR spectra for nearly 84,000 substances.
• More than 1.2 million additional commercially available substances.
• Experimental property tags for new proteins and nucleic acids.
• 10,000 traditional medicine patents from 1985-2005.
• 18,000 records from Chemisches Zentralblatt (issues 1905-1906) enhanced with English machine-translations of the bibliographic and abstract information.
• U.S patent records from 1870-1889.
• Patents issued from the Peoples Republic of China, 2007+
• A record 24,623 records added in a single week (~20K records added each week).

http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/sfsolutions/index.html

2. ACS Nanotation

ACS Nanotation offers a wide array of free tools to registered users, including:

• Nano Picks … synopses and commentary of the best new work

• ACS Journals in Focus: Instant links to the latest papers from ACS journals.

• Upload photos to the Image Gallery and share videos at NanoTube!

• Free Podcasts featuring researchers such as Whitesides and Rohrer.

• Wikis on Nano Centers, Glossary, Key Researchers, Commercial Products

Register at: http://www.acsnanotation.org/

3. Chemical Reviews - Perennial Reviews (Web Only Content)
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/chreay/2007/107/i01/html/cr068052f.html

BINOL: A Versatile Chiral Reagent - Update 1
(J.M. Brunel)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr078004a

Electrophilicity Index - Update 1
(P.M. Chattaraj and D.R. Roy)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr078014b

Carbon in One Dimension:
Structural Analysis of the Higher Conjugated Polyynes
S. Szafert and J.A. Gladysz
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr068016g

All three are corrected reprints with additional material.
• Updates to the text appear in RED type.

4. Sigma-Aldrich Cell Signalling Pathfinders
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Area_of_Interest/Life_Science/PathFinder.html

PathFinder, a new online resource offers a free and comprehensive collection of interactive biological pathways. Developed in conjunction with bioinformatics specialist Protein Lounge, PathFinder will be initially launched with nearly 20 pathways. Once completed, the application will contain over 100 signal transduction pathways.

The online tool provides links to appropriate products from Sigma-Aldrich's portfolio that includes small molecules, antibodies, enzymes, QPCR components and siRNAis for gene knockdown. Additional support is provided through links to detailed product descriptions and technical articles.

PathFinder presents biological signalling and metabolic pathways in an interactive, graphical representation of the cell. Researchers can now use the resource to explore the relationships between different pathway components.

5. New Electronic Books & Journals (linked from CLAS or e-journals)

Algorithms for molecular biology
v.1, 2006+

Bioactive heterocycles II
Shoji Eguchi
Topics in heterocyclic chemistry ; 8.

Bioactive heterocycles III
Mahmud Tareq Hassan Khan
Topics in heterocyclic chemistry ; 9.

Bioactive heterocycles IV
Mahmud Tareq Hassan Khan
Topics in heterocyclic chemistry ; 10.

Bioactive heterocycles V
Mahmud Tareq Hassan Khan
Topics in heterocyclic chemistry ; 11.

Bioinorganic chemistry /
Ivano Bertini, Harry B. Gray ... [et al.].
University Science Books, c1994.
QP531 .B543 1994.

BioTechniques' Protocol Guide 2008
http://www.biotechniques.com/default.asp?page=protocol

Combinatorial chemistry on solid supports
Stefan Brase
Springer, c2007.
Topics in current chemistry ; 278.

Creative chemical sensor systems
Thomas Schrader … E.V. Anslyn
Springer, c2007.
Topics in current chemistry ; 277.

Metal catalyzed reductive C-C bond formation:
a departure from preformed organometallic reagents
Michael J. Krische … B. Breit
Springer, c2007.
Topics in current chemistry ; 279.

Photochemistry and photophysics of coordination compounds
Vincenzo Balzani, Sebastiano Campagna … G. Accorsi
Springer, c2007.
Topics in current chemistry ; 280-281.

Controlling the quantum world : the science of atoms, molecules, and photons /
National Academies Press, c2007.
Physics 2010.
QC174.12 .C67 2007.

Cell Metabolism
v.1, 2005+

International Spectroscopy Conference (2nd : 2007).
Fundamental and applied spectroscopy
AIP conference proceedings ; no. 935

Journal of cell communication and signaling
v.1, 2007+

Nano Ethics
v.1, 2007+

PMC Physics A
v.1, 2007+

The power of the scientific eThesis
Peter Murray-Rust.
Caltech Digital Media Services, 2007.
Z692.E42 M87 2007.

A practical introduction to the simulation of molecular systems
Martin J. Field.
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
QD480 .F54 2007.

Russian Chemical Reviews
v.29-65, 1960-1996

Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry
v.1, 2006+

Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter - Fall 2007

2007-11-14T12:37:00.000-08:00

Chemistry Library Newsletter
Fall 2007

1. ACS policy on including 'articles' in your theses

2. Interviews, profiles, workshops, obituaries, etc.
(Grubbs, Heath, MacMillan, Lewis)

3. Annual Reports Section "A" (Inorganic Chemistry), 2007

4. RSC Project Prospect (enhanced HTML articles)

5. SciFinder Scholar / Crossfire Beilstein/Gmelin status

6. Open Access Conference Publishing

1. ACS policy on including 'articles' in your theses:

The American Chemical Society allows student authors to incorporate copies of either the peer-reviewed (unedited) manuscript or the final article as published by the ACS (either in whole or in part) in their theses(1), provided that:

1) they cite the relevant ACS journal and attribute ACS as copyright holder; and

2) the thesis is released AFTER the official date of online publication; and

3) the content of the article itself is NOT made publicly available on the WWW, unless the author obtains a license under the ACS AuthorChoice option(2).

A practical solution for Caltech authors, who do not obtain the ACS AuthorChoice license, is to:

1) have a separate chapter for ACS articles and restrict access to this chapter to authenticated users at Caltech; and

2) include the unique 'ACS Articles on Request' web link(3), that provides free reader access to the published article from the ACS website. There is a limit of 50 downloads during the first year after publication, after which there is no limit; and

3) embargo the Dissertation Abstracts copy until the article has been formally published.

1. ACS policy on dissertations.
http://pubs.acs.org/copyright/forms/dissertation.pdf

2. ACS Articles on Request policy.
http://pubs.acs.org/reprints/policy.html

3. ACS AuthorChoice option.
http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/author_choice/

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2. Interviews, profiles, workshops, obituaries, etc.
(Grubbs, Heath, MacMillan, Lewis)

Interview: A catalytic lifetime: Bob Grubbs talks to Alison Stoddart about the beginnings of organometallic chemistry and his search for the next catalyst.

Chemical Science, 2007, (9)
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemScience/Volume/2007/09/Bob_Grubbs_interview.asp

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Interview: Technology in a Bottle: James Heath talks to Alison Stoddart about the discovery of C60 and his more recent adventures.

Chemical Technology, 2007, (9)
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/Volume/2007/09/jim_heath_interview.asp

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At the top of the cascade: David MacMillan, a leading light in organocatalysis …

Chemistry World, 2007, 4(8), 50-53
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/restricted/2007/August/Atthetopofthecascade.asp

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Report of the Basic Energy Resources Workshop on Solar Energy Utilization, 2005. The Workshop was co-chaired by Nathan Lewis and has issued its report, which has been added to Caltech's Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA).

Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization
http://authors.library.caltech.edu/8599/

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3. Annual Reports Section "A" (Inorganic Chemistry), 2007

Annual Reports in the Progress of Chemistry provides comprehensive coverage of the most recent developments.

Molecular magnetism
Mark Murrie, Daniel J. Price,
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612962p

Chapters on the various elements
http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/IC/Article.asp?Type=CurrentIssue

Macrocyclic coordination chemistry
Stephen J. Archibald
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612865n

Supramolecular coordination chemistry
Chullikkattil P. Pradeep, Leroy Cronin
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612867j

Organometallic chemistry of bi- and poly-metallic complexes
Philip J. King
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612869f

New compounds and structures in the solid state
Edmund J. Cussen
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612878p

Fullerenes
Adam D. Darwish
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612961g

Nanotubes
Karl S. Coleman
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b705543a

Inorganic and organometallic polymers
Kevin J. T. Noonan, Derek P. Gates
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612872f

Conducting solids
Emma Kendrick, Peter Slater
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612879n

Reaction mechanisms in solution
Robert I. Haines
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612881p

Radiochemistry
David S. Urch
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612880g

Bioinorganic chemistry
J. McMaster
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b612874m

Photophysical properties of metal complexes
Nathan J. Patmore
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b702671b

Section B, Organic Chemistry - www.rsc.org/annrepb
Section C, physical Chemistry - www.rsc.org/annrepc

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4. RSC Project Prospect (enhanced HTML articles)
Following the recent successful launch of enhanced HTML articles, RSC Publishing is enhancing RSS feeds with structured subject and compound information, enabling at-a-glance identification of relevant articles. Read more at www.projectprospect.org

RSS Feeds are available at: www.rsc.org/rss

e-mail alerts at: www.rsc.org/ej_alert

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5. SciFinder Scholar / Crossfire Beilstein/Gmelin update

Work continues on resolution of problems with SciFinder Scholar 2007 client downloads and server change problems with Crossfire Beilstein/Gmelin.

Beilstein and Gmelin are also available thru DiscoveryGate at:

www.discoverygate.com

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6. Open Access Conference Publishing

There are a variety of options for publishing Open Access conference proceedings

Journal of Physics: Conference Series (IOP) -open access "journal" of conference proceedings.

Pramana - Journal of Physics (Indian Academy of Sciences/Indian Physics
Association) - a monthly research journal in English … proceedings of select high quality conferences.

3) AIP conference proceedings (Scitation platform) - Sample open access
proceeding:

Contact:Maya Flikop at mflikop@aip.org or Sabine Kessler at skessler@aip.org

4) One's own institutional repository

5) SLAC/SPIRES runs an e-conference site at

6) Proceedings of Science (SISSA, Italy) A major CERN conference in June
2006 will be published here. .

Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter - Summer 2007

2007-08-25T09:59:00.001-07:00

Chemistry Library Newsletter
Summer 2007

1. New Electronic+Print Encyclopedias
2. New Chemical Compound Databases
3. Annual Reports Section "C" (Physical Chemistry), volume 103, 2007
4. Organic Chemistry Portal
5. New Electronic Books & Journals
6. TOXNET - Search All Databases

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1. New Electronic+Print Encyclopedias

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III
Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080450476
MIL-8 REF QD411 .C652 2007 v.1-13

Robert Crabtree, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Mike Mingos, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, 3rd Edition (COMC-III), covers the major developments in the field since 1993 and attempts to predict trends over the next ten years. Unlike its predecessors, COMC (1982) and COMC-II (1995), this new work is also available online via ScienceDirect, featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles, plus dynamic linking to journal articles, and abstract databases (Scopus).

Table of Contents

Volume 1. Fundamentals (G. Parkin).
Volume 2. Compounds of Groups 1-2 & 11-12 (K. Meyer).
Volume 3. Compounds of Groups 13 to 15 (C.E. Housecroft).
Volume 4. Compounds of Groups 3 to 4 and the f elements (M. Bochmann).
Volume 5. Compounds of Groups 5 to 7 (K.H. Theopold).
Volume 6. Compounds of Group 8 (M.I. Bruce).
Volume 7. Compounds of Group 9 (C. Claver).
Volume 8. Compounds of Group 10 (A. Canty).
Volume 9. Applications I: Main Group Compounds in Organic Synthesis (P. Knochel).
Volume 10. Applications II: Transition Metal Compounds in Organic Synthesis 1 (I. Ojima).
Volume 11. Applications II: Transition Metal Compounds in Organic Synthesis 2 (T. Hiyama).
Volume 12. Applications III: Functional Materials, Environmental and Biological Appls (D. O'Hare).
Volume 13. Cumulative Indexes

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Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080450445
MIL-8 REF RS402 .C65 2007 v.1-8

David Triggle, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
John Taylor, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Workwide, UK

Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II has been refocused to reflect the significant developments and changes over the past decade in genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, combinatorial chemistry, high-throughput screening and pharmacology, and more. It covers major therapeutic classes and targets, research strategy and organization, high-throughput technologies, computer-assisted design, ADME and selected case histories. Unlike its predecessor, CMC (1990), it is also available online via ScienceDirect (2006) – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases (Scopus).

Contents
Volume 1 Global Perspective (P. Kennewell).
Volume 2 Research and Development (W.H. Moos).
Volume 3 Technologies (H. Kubinyi).
Volume 4 Computer-Assisted Drug Design (J.S. Mason).
Volume 5 ADME-Tox Approaches (B. Testa and H. van de Waterbeemd).
Volume 6 Therapeutic Areas I (M. Williams).
Volume 7 Therapeutic Areas II (J. Plattner and M.C. Desai).
Volume 8 Case Histories and Cumulative Subject Index (J.B. Taylor and D.J. Triggle).

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Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia and Ullmann’s Encyclopedia – New and Revised Articles

The electronic versions of both Kirk-Othmer and Ullmann’s stay current with the latest developments in chemistry, chemical technology and related fields, since new and revised articles are regularly posted.

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/0471238961/home

New articles posted since January 2007

Hemodialysis
Ionic Liquids
Reliability
Sampling Techniques
Yeasts, Molecular and Therapeutic Applications

A sampling of articles have been updated and/or revised since January 2007:

Air Pollution Control Methods
Antibiotics, Survey
Carbon Fibers
Extraction, Liquid-Liquid
Heat Transfer and Heat Exchangers
Lead, Toxicology
Sodium and Sodium Alloys
Stimulants
Thermal Pollution
Water Desalination
Wine
X-Ray Technology
Yeasts
Zirconium and Zirconium Compounds

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Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9783527306732/home

New articles posted in April 2007

Benzofurans
Cereal Products

A sampling of updated and/or revised articles posted in April 2007:

Acetylene
Acrolein and Methacrolein
Aluminum Compounds, Inorganic
Amino Acids
Automotive Fuels
Crown Ethers
Crystal Growth
Epothilones
Ethylene
Fluidized-Bed Reactor
Furfural and Derivatives
Hydrogen Peroxide
Malonic Acid and Derivatives
Pharmaceuticals, General Survey
Silica
Uranium, Uranium Alloys, and Uranium Compounds

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2. New compound databases -

ChemSpider
BindingDB
Generated Database of Chemical Space of Small Molecules

ChemSpider: Online Database of Chemical Structures and Property Predictions
http://www.chemspider.com

ChemSpider is a database of over 14.7M chemical structures and predicted properties. It also provides access to a series of property prediction algorithms. Content is aggregated from publicly available data sources, such as PubChem. A User Guide is available at:
http://www.chemspider.com/docs/chemspider_manual.pdf

Services currently available are:
Generation of systematic identifiers – SMILES and InChI strings
Conversion of a systematic name, a trivial name, a registry number, a SMILES string or
InChI code to a chemical structure
• Prediction of physicochemical properties based on ACD/Lab algorithms

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BindingDB: The Binding Database
http://www.bindingdb.org/bind/index.jsp

"BindingDB is a public, web-accessible database of measured binding affinities for biomolecules, genetically or chemically modified biomolecules, and synthetic compounds.The database currently contains data generated by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and enzyme inhibition (Enz. Inhib.) methods; other techniques will be included in the future."

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Generated Database of Chemical Space of Small Molecules
http://dcbwww.unibe.ch/groups/reymond/

" … a database of all molecules up to 11 atoms under constraints that define chemical stability and synthetic feasibility. The database contains 26.4 million compounds, the vast majority of which have never been synthesized. Searching through this database might help to identify new synthetic targets with interesting properties, and the discovery of new drugs."

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3. Annual Reports Section "C" (Physical Chemistry), volume 103, 2007
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/PC/Article.asp?Type=CurrentIssue

Review Articles

ECL-Electrochemical luminescence
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b605635k

Chemistry in low-temperature matrices
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b605697k

Organic conductors-from fundamentals to nonlinear conductivity
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b605647b

Product branching ratios in simple gas phase reactions
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b605650b

Diffuse X-ray scattering studies of molecular conductors
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b605649k

Interfacial immobilisation of DNA molecules
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b605907b

Zeolites: physical aspects and environmental applications
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b605702k

Polarized measurements in Raman microscopy
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b605698a

Colloidal magnetic nanocrystals: synthesis, properties and applications
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b605630j

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4. Organic Chemistry Portal
http://www.organic-chemistry.org/

"The Organic Chemistry Portal offers an overview of recent topics, interesting reactions, and information on the most important chemicals."

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5. New Electronic Books & Journals

Phosphorus World: chemistry, biochemistry and technology (CD-ROM) D. Corbridge, 2005.
A publication on CD (PDF) with 1,348 pages, 376 figures, 281 tables, 4,250 equations and formulæ, over 3,700 references, over 3,000 index entries
"This book has been adapted from the author's earlier works, to which corrections, major additions and many updates have been made. For convenience, and to reduce errors, many of the chapter headings have remained unchanged"--Preface

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Chemistry Central Journal
v.1, 2007+
http://www.journal.chemistrycentral.com/

IUCr (International Union of Crystallography) Newsletter
v.6, 1998+
http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/news/index.html

Journal of Controlled Release
v.33, 1995+
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01683659

Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers …
v.7, 1997 - v.14, 2004
http://www.metapress.com/content/105725/

Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials
v.15, 2005+
http://www.metapress.com/content/119761/

Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines.
v.1, 1997+
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/jpp/base_article/index.php

Journal of Power Sources
v.53, 1995+
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03787753

MAGMA - Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine
5, 1997+
http://www.metapress.com/content/110373/

MURJournal (MIT Undergraduate Research Journal)
v.2, 2000+
http://web.mit.edu/murj/www/index14.html

Nature Nanotechnology
v.1, 2006+
http://www.nature.com/nnano/archive/index.html

Nature Photonics
v.1, 2007+
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/archive/index.html

Nature Reports
2007+
http://www.nature.com/reports/index.html

Neural Development
v.1, 2006+
http://www.neuraldevelopment.com/

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
v.30, 2005+
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15407489

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
36, 1995+
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09270248

Structural Chemistry
v.8, 1997+
http://www.metapress.com/content/105339/

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6. TOXNET - Search All Databases
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/

The “Search All Databases” results page first displays references from the Biomedical Literature - TOXLINE (Toxicology Literature Online) and DART (Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology), followed by records from the 12 Chemical, Toxicological, and Environmental Health data files (e.g. ChemID, HSDB, CCRIS, GeneTox).

Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter - Spring 2007

2007-04-10T14:33:00.000-07:00

Chemistry Library Newsletter
Spring 2007

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***Color Printer in the SFL Library (only accessible from library workstations)
http://library.caltech.edu/help/printing.htm

Limit of 100 pages/term for free and then $0.40/side.
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1. New Databases (iHOP, ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams, Vapor Phase IR Spectra
2. New Journals, Books (ACS Author Choide, ACS Nano, Gold Book, J. Visualized Experiments
3. Chemical Abstracts / SciFinder Scholar Update (additional pre-1900 information)
4. Covalent and van der Waals radii (Cambridge Structural Database)

1. New Databases

iHOP (Information Hyperlinked Over Proteins)

The freely accessible iHOP service provides summary information on more than 80,000 genes, from 1,500 organisms by automatically extracting key sentences from over 12M PubMed documents.

Full news release at: http://www.sloankettering.edu/gerstner/html/73407.cfm

Database at: http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/

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ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center
http://www.asminternational.org/asmenterprise/apd/default.aspx

The Alloy Phase Diagram Center currently features more than 8,000 binary diagrams and 2,000 ternary diagrams. A second release, scheduled for September 2007, will feature 10,000 binaries and more than 20,000 ternaries.

Clicking the Explore tab displays a list of elements. Clicking an element name, and then 'binary' or 'ternary', displays a list of alloy systems for that element. Selecting a system displays a thumbnail diagram and related data. Clicking on the system title, pulls up an enlargable diagram and a full data set (bibliographic & experimental data, crystal and reaction data, and melting points and allotropic transformations)

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Vapor Phase Infrared Spectral Library (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
http://library.caltech.edu/password/ (which gives the password)

Quantitative vapor-phase infrared spectra of pure chemicals, created for both laboratory and remote-sensing applications. A spectral resolution of ~0.1 cm-1 was selected to avoid degrading sharp spectral features, while also realizing that atmospheric broadening typically limits line widths to 0.1 cm-1.

https://secure2.pnl.gov/nsd/NSD.nsf/Welcome?OpenForm

Click on either 'Browse CAS Numbers' or 'Browse Compound Names'

To retrieve a specta, click 'Add to Cart' corresponding to the compound name or CAS RN.

On the next screen, click 'Checkout'

Click 'Login with Existing Account' and enter login/password [http://library.caltech.edu/password/]

Then check-off ASCII and click 'Download Selections'

Click on the compound name and, in the dialog box, click either 'Open' or 'Save'

On the next screen, double click the compound folder and double click the compound name folder

The next screen will display a number of files, with the PDFs displaying spectra at different temperatures.

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New Journals, Books

1. ACS News …

ACS AuthorChoice allows unrestricted web access to your published ACS article—at the time of publication—for a one–time fixed payment, provided by you or your funding agency. Contributing authors who are ACS members and/or are affiliated with an ACS subscribing institution receive significant discounts. This policy also allows you to post copies of published articles on your personal website and institutional repositories for non–commercial scholarly purposes.

At Caltech but not an ACS member - $2000
At Caltech and an ACS member - $1000

This new program is in addition to the ACS Articles on Request policy, which provides (free of charge) to all contributing authors a unique URL, within the ACS website, that they may e-mail to colleagues or post on external websites. The ACS Articles on Request policy is limited to 50 downloads within the first year, and unlimited access via the same author-directed links 12 months after publication.

ACS Author Choice
http://pubs.acs.org/4authors/authorchoice/

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2. ACS Nano

Paul S. Weiss (Penn State) is the editor of ACS Nano, a monthly journal about Nanoscale Science and Technology that will begin publication in third-quarter 2007.

ACS Nano will include full-length research articles, perspectives, and editorial commentary. Its scope will complement the Nano Letters. ACS Nano will be featured within a community-oriented website.

Areas of interest will range from synthesis and assembly to functional devices and nanolithography, including chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and engineering. Editorial features will report on issues and thoughts in the field, including "conversations" with key scientists and public figures.

Full news release at: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nano_editor/

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3. IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology - the Gold Book (Electronic Version)
http://goldbook.iupac.org/

A browsable, searchable, interactive version of the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, informally known as the Gold Book. It provides both alphabetical and thematic (i.e. chemistry, math-physics, general) indexes, as well as an extensive listing of IUPAC source publications.

Mousing over underlined linear structures displays the 2-dimensional structure of the molecule. Each entry contains interactive maps of narrower and broader terms.

All ring-containing structures (327) in the Gold Book were split to individual rings (97) and these were organized in a comprehensive ring index.

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Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
http://www.jove.com/index.stt

An online journal publishing visualized (video-based) biological research studies, which aims to solve difficult problems in the contemporary life science research, namely:

Low transparency and reproducibility of biological experiments, and

Time-consuming learning of experimental techniques

Video-based visualization of biological techniques and procedures provide effective solutions to these problem. Each video-article will include step-by-step instructions on an experiment, a demonstration of equipment and reagents, and a short discussion by experts describing possible technical problems and modifications.

There is NO fee for authors to publish their video articles. Video-articles published in JoVE will be freely available to the scientific community.

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3. Chemical Abstracts / SciFinder Scholar Update (additional pre-1900 information)

SciFinder Scholar has added 10,000 records for U.S. chemical patents from 1900-1906 and nearly 8,700 for U.S. patent records from 1890-1899. Data from both the 1878-1906 issues of J. Chem. Soc., Transactions and the 1890-1906 issues of the Journal of the Chemical Society, Abstracts have been loaded as well. These additions are relevant to both research and patenting efforts. The JCS Abstracts provide extended abstracts of 'foreign' publications

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4. Covalent Radii and van der Waals Radii

Four listings of the elements (by name, symbol, period and group) .

http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/products/csd/radii/table.php4

Courtesy of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.

Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter - Winter 2006

2007-01-31T15:09:00.000-08:00

Chemistry Library Newsletter
Winter 2006

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***Color Printer in the SFL Library (access within the Library System)
http://library.caltech.edu/help/printing.htm

Limit of 100 pages/term for free and then $0.40/side.
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1. New Journals, Databases, etc.
2. Patent News (Google & SciFinder Scholar)
3. Chemical Abstracts REG File Nomenclature Changes
4. Take a break and enjoy … the National Curve Bank …
5. Contents of recent Annual Reports …
6. New (Career) Book
7. New Database - Lipidbank

1. New Journals, Databases, etc.

Journal of Physical Chemistry C
v.111, 2007+
http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jpccck/index.html

JPC-C, will emphasize nanomaterials, interfaces, catalysis, and special topics such as electron transport, electronic and optical devices and energy conversion and storage.

JPC-A continues to cover dynamics, clusters, kinetics, spectroscopy, atmospheric and environmental chemistry, and molecular structure and theory, and two new categories: excited states and green chemistry.

JPC-B covers condensed matter topics, including macromolecules, soft matter, surfactants, membranes, thermodynamics, medium effects and biophysical chemistry.

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JCP: BioChemical Physics
v.1, 2007+
http://jcp-bcp.aip.org/

A monthly online-only portion the Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP) that deals directly with, or has important implications for, biologically related systems.

Subscribers to the Journal of Chemical Physics will continue to receive this material as part of their regular subscription.

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NanoToday
v.1, 2006+
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17480132

NanoToday features reviews as well as guest columnists. Published quarterly, NanoToday is available free of charge to registered readers.

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Nanoscale research letters [electronic resource]
v.1, 2006+
http://www.metapress.com/content/1556-276X/
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Nature Bulletins: Biotech/Pharma — the science and business of new therapies
http://www.nature.com/bulletins/biotechpharma/index.html

A free weekly news digest devoted to science and business developments in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Includes material from journal articles and reviews, world news, blogs and commentaries on everything from early-stage chemistry to patent expiries. Also included are:

Jobs from NatureJobs [http://www.nature.com/bioent/careers/index.html],
Conference information from NatureEvents [http://www.nature.com/bioent/events/index.html].

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Material Matters --- is free on the web, and also available as a free print subscription. Published quarterly, with thematic content, featuring technical reviews, application notes, and highlighting new Sigma-Aldrich products and relevant services. Contents include:

Polymerization for Advanced Applications
Molecular Self-Assembly
Deposition of Ceramic and Hybrid Materials
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Area_of_Interest/Chemistry/Materials_Science.html

Other Sigma-Aldrich publications, in addition to Aldrichimica Acta, include (with examples of content):

ChemFiles:
Ionic Liquids
Organic Building Blocks
Asymmetric Organocatalysis

ChemNews:
November: Asymmetric Synthesis
October: Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation
September: Heterocyclic Chemistry III

Cheminars:
Trost Bis-ProPhenol Ligands
Fluorous Technologies

ChemBlogs:
New Tool for Chemical Biology/Staudinger Ligation
Highly Enantioselective, Catalytic Vinylation of Ketones
Organotrifluoroborates: Potent Boronic Acid/Ester Surrogates

All are available at: http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Area_of_Interest/Chemistry/Chemical_Synthesis/Key_Resources.html

2. Patent News (Patent Lens, Google & SciFinder Scholar)

Patent Lens
http://www.patentlens.net/

A text-searchable database covering US (patents and applications) and life science applications for EPO (patents) and PCT (full coverage later this year). Free PDF downloads for all US patent documents (apps and grants) and EP patents, as a multipage PDF or a single page at a time.

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Google Patents [beta]
http://www.google.com/patents
http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search

Liimitations include: … a maximum retrieval of ~1200 patents, … printing problems with MAC OS X, …printing first page only. Currency problems … the USPTO has issued 48 'Caltech' patents since September 2006, Google Patents did not retrieve a single one.

Google Patents does provide a very readable display of the abstract, claims and references with links to images of the USPTO original. It also offers a 'search within this patent' which provides highlighted results in the text of the USPTO patent.

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SciFinder Scholar - CAplus file -

CAS has developed, in-house, new processing software tools and procedures for patents from the People’s Republic of China, which have increased from 3.7% in 2001 to 12.5% by the end of 2005. The PRC is now the fourth largest source of patent records covered by CAS, following Japan, WIPO, and the US.

CAS has expanded Korean patent data with records for granted patents since 1997 and examined applications since 2000.

3. Chemical Abstracts REG File Nomenclature Changes

Nomenclature improvements include more uniformly cited locants, reduction in the number of stereoparent names, and the elimination of nearly 3,000 obscure stereoparents. Unexpressed amides also will be disregarded. http://www.cas.org/ONLINE/UG/caindexname.pdf

Chemical names produced through the new system will begin to appear in CAS Registry database records in December 2006. Old CA Index Names will be converted to the new nomenclature in 2007, but the old names will continue to be displayed in the Registry records.

4. Take a break and enjoy … the National Curve Bank …

National Curve Bank
http://Curvebank.calstatela.edu/home/home.htm

A hall of fame for geometrical figures … curves that have intrigued mathematicians for over 2 millennia … offering history, biography, animations, even baseball home run distances.

5. Contents of recent Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry

Annu. Rep. Prog. Chem., Sect. A (Inorganic), 2006
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/IC/Article.asp?Type=CurrentIssue

Inorganic nanomaterials
Alkali and alkaline-earth metals
Boron
Al, Ga In, & Th
C, Si, Ge, Sn, & Pb
N, P, Ar, Sb, & Bi
O, S. Se, & Te
Halogens and noble gases
Ti, Zr, & Hf
V, Nb, & Ta
Cr, Mo & W
Mn, Tc, & Re
Fe, Co, & Ni
Cu
Noble Metals
Sc, Yt, La group, & Ac group
Macrocyclic coordination chemistry
Supramolecular coordination chemistry
Bi- and polymetallic organometallics
New compounds and structures in the solid state
Fullerenes
Inorganic and organometallic polymers
Magnetism
Conducting solids
Mechanisms of reactions in solution
Radiochemistry and Radiopharmaceuticals
Bioinorganic chemistry
Photophysical properties of metal complexes

Annu. Rep. Prog. Chem., Sect. B (Organic), 2006
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/oc/Article.asp?Type=CurrentIssue

Synthetic Methods - Free-radical reactions / Oxidation and reduction methods
Transition metals in organic synthesis: Cross-coupling and C-H activation
Heterocyclic chemistry
Highlights of natural product synthesis
Marine natural products
Chemical genetics
Supramolecular chemistry
N-Heterocyclic carbenes: Advances in transition metal and organic catalysis
Biotransformations
Computational organic chemistry
Reaction Mechanisms: Radical and radical ion reactions / Pericyclic reactions
Organic gas-phase ion chemistry
Catalysis: experimental and computational
Reactivity in organised assemblies
Bioinspired organic chemistry

6. New (Career) Book:

Academic scientists at work : navigating the biomedical research career
J. Boss & S. Eckert
Q180.A1 B569 2006 CD-ROM (at Mil-1 Circulation Desk)

Excellent reviews … "Advice in the book is excellent … running the lab: people, money, and science."
"Well written and a highly enjoyable read". "Packed with useful tips …"

7.. New Databases - Lipids

Lipidbank
http://www.lipidbank.jp

Lipidbank provides structures and properties for more than 6000 different lipid species, ... organized in 17 lipid groups and 28 lipid classes ... including fatty acids, fat-soluble vitamins, phospholipids, and glycolipids.

Each entry provides chemical and physical properties (including spectral data), metabolism, and biological activities. Structural formulas can be downloaded in ChemDraw format. Literature references are included but are not comprehensive.

Lipidbank is searchable by name, source, etc., as well as by structure (e.g., classification, structural/functional features, number/position of double bonds).

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Lipidmaps (LIPID Metabolites And Pathways Strategy)
http://www.lipidmaps.org/

Lipidmaps focus on the genes & proteins involved in lipid metabolism and function ("lipidomics").

The Structure Database is both text and structure searchable and includes a browsable Lipid Classification Scheme with links to individual lipids.
Data includes: Names, Exact Mass, Formula, Category, PubChem Substance ID, etc.

The Proetome Database is searchable for proteins associated with a lipid class (e.g. Fatty acids/Eicosanoids, Glycerolipids, Glycerophospholipids, etc.
Data includes: Taxonomy, Description Lipid Category, Molecular Weight, Sequence Length, Sequence.

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Other relevant websites include:

The Lipid Library
http://www.lipidlibrary.co.uk

The freely accessible Lipid Library includes: Definitions, structures, composition, occurrence, biochemistry and functions of most types of fatty acids and lipids. Over 500 Mass Spectra, NMR shifts, chromatographic data and literature references and review articles are included.

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SphinGOMAP
http://sphingomap.org

SphinGOMAP is an evolving pathway map for sphingolipid biosynthesis that includes many of the known sphingolipids and glycosphingolipids arranged according to their biosynthetic origin(s).

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ELIfe: The European Lipidomics Initiative
http://www.lipidomics.net/

The objectives of ELIfe include: a European technology platform bringing together technological know-how and industry, shaping the way in which lipidomics research is organised in Europe, and defining the most suitable ways in which the new technologies can be applied in the clinical setting to assess, cure and prevent membrane lipid disorders.

Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter - Fall 2006

2006-10-23T17:03:00.000-07:00

CHEMISTRY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER
Fall 2006

CONTENTS:

1. New electronic resources (journals, journal issues, etc.)
2. ACS Style Guide - 3d edition, 2006
3. Doctoral Education: Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
4. SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)
5. Recently scanned 'classics' by Roberts and Gray.
6. Database news

1. New electronic resources (journals, journal issues, etc.)

Ann. Rep. Prog. Chem. C, 2006, 102
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/PC/Index.asp

Cathodeluminescent phosphors, 12-42
Recent Advances .. electrochemistry of ion transfer processes at liquid-liquid interfaces, 43-70
Quantum-size effects in capped and uncapped carbon nanotubes, 71-89
Molecular structure from x-ray diffraction, 92-130
Theoretical studies of strong hydrogen bonds, 131-165
Electron spin resonance (some chemical applications), 166-202
On the accuracy of density functional theory in transition metal chemistry, 203-226
Laser control of physicochemical processes, 227-250

Cell Signalling Biology
http://www.cellsignallingbiology.org/

"An essential online resource on cell signalling pathways that is integrated and presented within the context of specific cell types and processes. The first half of the website characterizes the components and properties of the major cell signalling pathways with special emphasis on how they are switched on and off. The second half of the website deals with the way these different signalling pathways are employed to control the life history of cells from their birth during the process of cell proliferation, their differentiation into specific cell types to carry out different cell functions, and finally their death through processes such as apoptosis."

Chemistry Central
(www.chemistrycentral.com/)

"Chemistry Central is a new open access website (and journal) for chemists from BioMed Central. Chemistry Central features open access articles from Geochemical Transactions, the online journal of the ACS Division of Geochemistry, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, as well as chemistry-related articles published in BioMed Central's biological and medical journals, including BMC Pharmacology, BMC Biochemistry and BMC Chemical Biology."

2. ACS Style Guide - 3d edition, 2006

"This extensive revision of the 1997 "ACS Style Guide" thoroughly examines electronic tools now available to assist writers in preparing manuscripts and communicating with publishers … and also contains references to many resources on the internet".
Includes numerous appendicies … e.g., proofreader's marks, recommended spelling list, CASSI abbreviations for the 1000+ most commonly cited journals.

3. Doctoral Education: Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/cid

Snapshots created for the summer 2005 convenings (meetings of departmental representatives held at the Carnegie Foundation) highlight successful program elements and unanswered questions related to the themes of the three convenings: Developing researchers and scholars. Developing effective teachers. Supporting intellectual community.

4. SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)

The CAplus file (Chemical Abstracts)has been enhanced with more pre-1907 records. Nearly 8,700 U.S. patent records from 1890-1899 were added, in addition to over 2,600 records from the 1878-1906 issues of the Journal of the Chemical Society–Transactions.

CA Registry has been updated to include the amino acid codes “O” and “PYL” for pyrrolysine, which was identified in 2002 as the 22nd genetically encoded amino acid.

5. These recently scanned 'classic' books, authored by Jack Roberts and Harry Gray, are the latest chemistry books added to Caltech's CODA (Institutional Repository)

Carl J. Ballhausen and Harry B. Gray,
Molecular orbital theory: an introductory lecture note and reprint volume, 1965
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1965.002

Langford, Cooper H. and Gray, Harry B.
Ligand Substitution Processes, 1966
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1966.001

Roberts, John D. and Stewart, Ross and Caserio, Marjorie C.
Organic chemistry: methane to macromolecules, 1971
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1971.001

Roberts, John D. and Caserio, Marjorie C.
Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed., 1977
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1977.001

These books supplement those previously announced:

Roberts, John D.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: applications to organic chemistry, 1959
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1959.001

Roberts, John D.
An Introduction to the Analysis of Spin-Spin Splitting in High-Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra, 1961
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1961.002

Roberts, John D.
Notes on Molecular Orbital Calculations, 1961
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1961.001

6. Database News

Reaction Database: Chemical Synthesis
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Area_of_Interest/Chemistry/Chemical_Synthesis/Key_Resources/Rxn_Database.html

The Reaction Database, provided by Sigma-Aldrich, leads to detailed literature procedures by entering the starting material and product-of-interest. In addition, the procedures include a list of reagents needed as well as links to their respective product detail pages for easy ordering.

IUPAC Ionic Liquids Database (ILThermo)
http://ilthermo.boulder.nist.gov/ILThermo/mainmenu.uix

ILThermo is a free web research tool that provides access to publications on thermodynamic, and transport properties of both ionic liquids as well as binary and ternary mixtures. NIST Standard Reference Database #147

CHMOOGLE eMolecules (Google took offense and forced the name change).
http://www.emolecules.com

A free chemical search engine that searches (text and structure or substructure) on millions of molecules from across the Web and from chemical suppliers worldwide.

Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter - Summer 2006

2006-08-12T12:36:00.000-07:00

CHEMISTRY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER
Summer 2006

CONTENTS:

1. New electronic resources (journals, journal issues, etc.)

2. Chemical Safety

3. Fieser & Fieser's Reagents for Organic Synthesis
Collective Index to v.1-22
[MIL-8 REF QD 262 F5]

4. NCBI Search Toolbar (PubMed, etc.)

5. Chemical Abstracts / SciFinder Scholar News

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1. New electronic resources (journals, journal issues, etc.)

Analytical Chemistry
(2006), 78(12), 3841-4145
http://pubs.acs.org/journals/ancham/index.html

Annual special issue of Fundamental Reviews covering a wide variety to topics (e.g., Solid State NMR, Chiral Separations, Electrochemical Sensors, Molecular Fluorescence, ICP MS)

Annual Scientific Report / HHMI
2005
http://www.hhmi.org/home/HHMI_AR05.pdf

Biointerphases
v.1 (2006)+
http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=BJIOBN

Faculty of 1000-Biology
(Highlights and reviews of the most interesting papers)
http://www.f1000biology.com/browse/

HHMI bulletin
v.14 (2001)+
http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/

International journal of materials research : Zeitschrift fur Metallkunde.
v.97, no.4 (Apr. 2006)+
http://www.ijmr.de/o_archiv.asp

Journal of Biological Chemistry - Reflections
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/sectionsearch?tocsectionid=Reflections

In honor of the JBC Centenary, a series of Reflections was inaugurated. Reflections are invited articles by respected biochemists on a topic of their choosing, which hopefully capture some of the personal experiences and history of biochemistry. Authors include: Alexander Rich, Robert Sinsheimer, Gerald Edelman, Irving Klotz, and Paul Berg.

Journal of the Electrochemical Society
v.122, 1975+
http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=JESOAN

Journal of instrumentation
v.1 (2006)+
http://www.iop.org/EJ/jinst/

Nature
v.165 (1950)+
http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/index.html

2. Chemical Safety

"How dangerous is chemistry?" -- A recent 'special report' in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7093/pdf/441560a.pdf

Highlights include:

"There simply is never an adequate excuse for not wearing safety glasses in the laboratory at all times". K. Barry Sharpless

"A couple of drops of dimethyl mercury … (penetrated) her latex gloves … (resulting in) 80 times the lethal dose of mercury in her blood". Karen Wetterhahn

"… two safety release valves on the (liquid nitrogen) cylinder had been removed and replaced with wire plugs, turning the cylinder in to a pressure bomb". Texas A & M University

See Also: Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards [SFL-REF T55.3.H3 B73 1999]

3. Collective Index to Fieser & Fieser's Reagents for Organic Synthesis [MIL-8 REF QD 262 F5]

The Collective Index to v.1-22 includes:

Reagents Index by Name - p.1-184 (e.g. Aluminum Chloride)
Reagents Index by (primary reactive) Element - p.185-392 (e.g. Magnesium)
Type of Reaction Index - p.393-644 (e.g. Aldol Reactions, Heck Reaction)
Index of Synthetic Targets - p.645-914 (e.g. Acetals, Ketones)
Index of Natural Product Targets - p.915-934 (e.g. Abscisic Acid)
Author Index - p.935-1266 (e.g. Stoltz, B.M.)
Subject Index - p.1267-1546 (e.g. Aluminum Chloride)

4. NCBI Search Toolbar
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd05/nd05_toolbar.html

The Toolbar is an optional addition to your Web browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox) that expedites searching the NCBI's resources (PubMed, etc.). It also highlights search results and provides shortcuts to NCBI resources.

5. Chemical Abstracts / SciFinder Scholar News

CAplus includes over 25M abstracts, adding 981K in 2005.
CASREACT includes over 11M reactions.
CAS Registry includes over 27,000,000 organic and inorganic substance records.
CAS Registry includes over 142K NMR, 28K IR, & 19K Mass Spectra.

Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter-Mar/Apr 2006

2006-07-26T17:45:00.000-07:00

CHEMISTRY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER
March/April (Spring) 2006

CONTENTS:

1a. New electronic resources, journals and book series volumes.

1b. CD-ROMs formerly on the CLS NT Network now available for check-out.

2. BLOG for New 'Chemistry' Library Books and Special Journal Issues.

3. Open Access Authoring @ Caltech

4.. SciFinder Scholar update

5. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry (Zewail and Hochstrasser articles)

6. ACS Journal Article Citation Manager Functionality.

7. How to become a creative scientist [Physics World (2005), 18(12), 54-55]

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1a. New electronic resources: journals, books and book series volumes

Faculty of 1000 Biology (Biochemistry to Structural Biology)
http://www.f1000biology.com

Faculty of 1000 Biology is a literature awareness tool that highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences. Selection is based on the recommendations of a 'faculty' of well over 1000 selected leading researchers including: David J. Anderson, Frances Arnold, Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, Elliot M. Meyerowitz, Dianne Newman, Jose Luis Riechmann, Paul Sternberg, Kai Zinn.

Biogeosciences (BG) & Biogeosciences Discussions (BGD)
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/bg/bg.html

Langford, C.H. and Gray, H.B.
Ligand substitution processes
W.A. Benjamin, 1965
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1966.001

Journal of RNAi and gene silencing : an international journal of RNA and gene targeting research.
http://libpubmedia.co.uk/RNAiJ/RNAiJHome.htm

Wolfram, S.
New Kind of Science
Wolfram Media, 2002
http://www.wolframscience.com/thebook.html

Roberts, John D.
An introduction to the analysis of spin-spin splitting in high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectra
W.A. Benjamin, 1961
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1961.002

Roberts, John D., 1918-
Notes on molecular orbital calculations
W. A. Benjamin, 1961
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1961.001

Roberts, John D
Nuclear magnetic resonance; applications to organic chemistry
McGraw-Hill, 1959
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1959.001

Structure and Bonding
v.122 - Single-Molecule Magnets and Related Phenomena
http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=km84j46v55qp

v.121 - Non-Covalent Multi-Porphyrin Assemblies
http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=52q2v7j058u7v781

v.120 - Recent Developments in Mercury Science
http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=l3137161q248

Thomas Register (Online only as Thomas Net from 2006+)
http://www.thomasnet.com/index.html

1b. CD-ROMs formerly on the CLS NT Network, now available for check-out.

Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams
SFL CIRC RESERVE TN690 .B528 1996

Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes
MIL RESERVE QP609.P78 H36 2004

The CD-ROM contains the full text with enhancements, including links to the MEROPS database and PubMed. Most illustrations on the CD-ROM are in color, and the text is fully searchable. There is a special search function for the scissile bonds in substrate structures that allows the reader to locate a peptidase with a given specificity.

Physical properties of polymers handbook
SFL CIRC RESERVE TA455.P58 P475 1996

NIST critically selected stability constants of metal complexes database
SFL CIRC RESERVE QD503 .N57 2004

Powder diffraction file
SFL CIRC RESERVE Laptop #1

Table of integrals, series, and products [Gradshteyn & Ryzhik]
SFL CIRC RESERVE QA55 .G6613 1996

2. BLOG for New 'Chemistry' Library Books and Special Journal Issues.

New 'chemistry' library book and special journal issue lists are added, each month since January 2006, to the Caltech 'Chemistry' New Books blog at
http://chemnewbooks.blogspot.com

3. Open Access Authoring @ Caltech

Browse a running list of research papers, books, editorial appointments, and other news about open access scholarship by Caltech researchers.
http://oacaltech.blogspot.com/

4. SciFinder Scholar Update

Since March 2005, over 2 million substances in REGISTRY have been enriched with nearly 5 million references or "tags" that point to additional experimental property data. The tagged properties can be spectra***, charts, graphs, large tables, or numeric values and have bibliographic references to the original source documents. Tags will continue to be added, on an on-going basis, as new references containing property data are identified.

***Spectra currently available only for Windows client (e.g. library workstations).

CAS has added spectral data for about 150,000 compounds in SciFinder Scholar. There are 28,000 IR, 19,000 Mass Spec, and 142,000 13C NMR from Wiley and Japan's SDBS. The actual spectra are available, not just links to articles with spectral data. The spectra are currently NOT in the Mac version, but will be available in the next OS release scheduled for this summer.
To view the spectra, first retrieve the record for the compound by using the “locate” button. Click on the microscope icon to open the full record for your compound and then scroll down to the hyperlink labeled “Experimental Properties.”

5. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2006, v. 57

There is a nice juxtaposition of Robin Hochstrasser's retrospective " ON A RESEARCH ROLLERCOASTER WITH FRIENDS" and his former student Ahmed Zewail's review " 4D ULTRAFAST ELECTRON DIFFRACTION, CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, AND MICROSCOPY" in the 2006 volume of Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/physchem

6. ACS Journal Article Citation Manager Functionality.

A new link "Download to Citation Manager" is at the top of each article's abstract page. Users have the choice of downloading citations into BibTeX, EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager applications.

7. How to become a creative scientist [Physics World (2005), 18(12), 54-55]

This short essay suggests that … "to nurture a creative attitude", one should:
1. Liven up your working environment … images on the walls
2. Break habitual patterns … take a different route to the lab
3. Extend your attention span … take breaks at different times
4. Broaden your horizons … read unrelated journals
5. Speak to non-specialists … and describe your research in metaphorical terms
6. Harness your brain power … visualize doing things before doing them
7. Play with ideas … try combining ideas that appear to be unrelated
8. Get physical … develop a daily physical routine -- like going to the library!
9. Record your thoughts … keep a daily journal and review it
10. Read books … like Brain Power and The Mind's Eye

Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter-Jan/Feb 2006

2006-05-24T15:29:00.000-07:00

CHEMISTRY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER

January-February 2006

CONTENTS:

1. New electronic journals and book series volumes
(also listed at http://library.caltech.edu à Browse Journal Titles)

2. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry
Contents and links to full text for v.101, 2005

3. SciFinder Scholar update (CAplus file and Block Polymer Nomenclature)

4. Price and pagination comparisons (2000-2004)

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1a. New electronic journals

ACS Chemical Biology | Full Text from 2006 volume 1.
http://pubs.acs.org/journals/acbcct/
A community approach to foster interactions between scientists exploring cellular function from both a biological and chemical perspective.

ChemMedChem | Full Text from 2006 volume 1.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/110485305
Subtitled: Chemistry Enabling Drug Discovery. ChemMedChem replaces Il Farmaco—
An International Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

Geosentinel
http://www.istm.org/geosentinel/main.html
A worldwide communication and data collection network for the surveillance of travel related morbidity. Links to CDC and WHO websites.

1b. New electronic book series volumes

ACS Directory Of Graduate Research | 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005 volumes
http://dgr.rints.com/

Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology | Volume 68, 1998+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=110310

Advances in Polymer Science | v.139, 1999+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=104935

Advances in Solid State Physics | v.41, 2001+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=110322

Molecular Sieves - Science and Technology | v.1, 1998+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=110320

Springer Tracts in Modern Physics | v.137, 165+, 2000+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=110313

Structure & Bonding | v.94, 1999+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=110355

Topics in Applied Physics | v.77, 2000+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=110314

Topics in Catalysis | v.4, 1997+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=101754

Topics in Current Chemistry | v.186, 1997+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=110311

Topics in Current Genetics | v.1, 2003+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=110358

Topics in Organometallic Chemistry | v.1, 1998+
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=110319

2. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry

Annual Reports Section A (Inorganic Chemistry) v.101, 2005
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/ic/Article.asp?Type=CurrentIssue

In addition to reviews on individual elements & periodic groups, there are also reviews on:

Bioinorganic chemistry, Computer modelling of inorganic materials, Conducting solids, Fullerenes, Inorganic and organometallic polymers, Macrocyclic coordination chemistry, Magnetism, Mechanisms of reactions in solution, Metal complexes as pharmaceuticals, New compounds and structures in the solid state, Organometallic chemistry of bi- and polymetallic complexes, Photophysical properties of metal complexes, Radiochemistry and radiopharmaceuticals, Supramolecular coordination chemistry.

Annual Reports Section B (Organic Chemistry) v.101, 2005
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/oc/Article.asp?Type=CurrentIssue

Bioinspired organic chemistry, Biotransformations, Carbene and transition metal-mediated transformations, Catalysis: Experimental and computational, Chemical genetics, Computational organic chemistry, Heterocyclic chemistry, Marine natural products, Organic gas-phase ion chemistry, Reaction mechanisms. Part (i) Radical and radical ion reactions, Part (ii) Polar reactions, Part (iii) Pericyclic reactions, Supramolecular chemistry, Synthetic methods. Part (i) Free-radical reactions, Part (ii) Oxidation and reduction methods, Part (iii) Heteroatom methods, Transition metals in organic synthesis.

Annual Reports Section C (Physical Chemistry) v.101, 2005
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/PC/article.asp?Type=CurrentIssue

Catalytic antibodies, Cavity ring-down and cavity enhanced spectroscopy using diode lasers, Immobilisation of chiral catalysts: easy recycling of catalyst and improvement of catalytic efficiencies, Mass spectrometry of free radicals: a methodological overview, Studies of spin-coated polymer films, Studies on laser ablation of polymers, Surface biocompatibility.

3. SciFinder Scholar update

The CAplus File (SciFinder Scholar) includes both Chemical Abstracts from 1907, as well as additional records, such as:

American Chemical Society National Meeting Abstracts since 1995.
In-process records prior to full CAS indexing for both articles and patents.
Biographical material, book reviews, editorials, etc., since Oct. 1994 from 1,580 journals.
Over 21K records for journal articles dated before 1907 (including JACS 1879+ and JPC 1898+).

Cited references are included for journals, conference proceedings, and basic patents from the US, EPO, WIPO, and German patent offices added to the CAS databases from 1997 to the present.

Bibliographic information and available abstracts for articles from nearly 1,500 key chemical journals are added within 1 week of journal receipt. The CAplus File is updated daily with about 3,000 new bibliographic records and weekly with indexing for about 14,000 records.

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Nomenclature revision for block polymers, which began in June 2004, has been completed.

Specific terms, such as diblock, triblock, tetrablock or pentablock, are now used for all block polymers registered since 1987. Stereoblock was added, when appropriate, for block polymers registered since 1967.

For example, the original registration for:

106107-54-4 Benzene, ethenyl-, polymer with 1,3-butadiene, block

has been supplemented with:

709030-54-6 Benzene, ethenyl-, polymer with 1,3-butadiene, diblock
694491-73-1 Benzene, ethenyl-, polymer with 1,3-butadiene, triblock
709030-21-7 Benzene, ethenyl-, polymer with 1,3-butadiene, tetrablock
709030-56-8 Benzene, ethenyl-, polymer with 1,3-butadiene, pentablock

these are in addition to:

9003-55-8 Benzene, ethenyl-, polymer with 1,3-butadiene
106974-54-3 Benzene, ethenyl-, polymer with 1,3-butadiene, graft
110771-86-3 Benzene, ethenyl-, polymer with 1,3-butadiene, block, graft

4. Selective Journal Cost/Pagination Comparison (2000-2005)

2000 2005 change net
SYNLETT-cost $ 748 $1456 95%
pages 1860 3172 71% 24%

ORGANIC LETTERS-cost $2645 $3865 46%
pages 4269 5925 39% 7%

TET. LETTERS $11074 $14494 31%
Pages 10361 9060 -13% 44%

J. PHYS. CHEM. A&B $3113 $4551 46%
Pages 24430 36594 50% -4%

CHEMICAL PHYSICS $5530 $7574 37%
Pages 4909 3987 -19% 56%