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ISSUE #20  << STAR PICKS
November 2001

Star Picks

   Doc Brown's Chemical Clinic
Doc Brown's Chemical Clinic 
(http://www.wpbschoolhouse.btinternet.co.uk)

A UK-based general help and revision site for 14-19 year-old chemistry students. The site includes plenty of notes, tests, graphics and downloads. The layout is a bit on the old-fashioned side with rather too many different font colors, but it makes a nice change from offerings for the US educational system, and provides useful information for UK students as well as a different perspective for others.

   
Innocentive   

Innocentive 
(http://www.innocentive.com/)    

Fancy yourself as a whiz at retrosynthetic analysis, a dab hand with bond formation, or working-up a green reaction scheme? Then, get yourself along to Innocentive where pharma company Eli Lilly are offering financial incentives for registered users of the site to come up with viable methods to synthesizing a whole range of organic molecules the company has reached a dead-end with. The likes of D-glucopyranose could earn you $40,000, while the simple-seeming FMOC-D-2-ME-TRP will get you $75,000. Could be a nice little earner.

   

   ChemBench
ChemBench
(http://www.chembench.com/)    

A US-based online chemical community, providing e-mail facilities, real-time chat and discussion groups, as well as computational tools, information management and a corporate customer community. You can get a free chembench.com email address and a personal homepage. There are specialist levels for teachers and professors too who might wish to use online conferencing facilities.