Physically Chemist

Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Turning spiroketals into teddy bears

In Tim Burton's film The Nightmare Before Christmas, there is a scene where the Oogie Boogie Man, upon his demise, splits open at the seams and out spill thousands of worms. Besides taxidermy, the Oogie Boogie Man is the only thing I thought of when I saw this graphical abstract on Twitter:

SMILES notation: The Functional SMILES Perspective

SMILES Perspectives

SMILES notation is so much fun to play with! Another reason why SMILES is an appropriate acronym. Because SMILES is a graph/connectivity language in string format, there are many ways to enumerate bond paths and subgraphs in molecules.

Chemical notations - working list

The following is a working list of chemical notations used in chemistry. It does not contain most commercial formats (SDF, MOL, Gaussian, XYZ, etc...) but instead focuses on formats which more linear and human-readable (i.e. not heavily based on coordinates).

BOOK REVIEW: Electronic Properties of Aromatic and Heterocyclic Molecules - T. E. Peacock

Electronic Properties of Aromatic and Heterocyclic Molecules (Theoretical Chemistry: A Series of Monographs, Volume 1)

Electronic Properties of Aromatic and Heterocyclic Molecules by T. E. Peacock
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Heterocyclic organic molecules are a very interesting class theoretically and this little book maintains a focus on that class.

Chemicals in Canadian Law

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