About

This is the about page for the Reactive Chemistry blog brought to you as part of the Reactive Reports site by David Bradley Science Writer. RR was started in September 1999 by DB and Tony Williams then at ACD/Labs and now running Chemspider.com. The chemistry webzine, one of the very first, was a companion to Elemental Discoveries (1996 onwards), the predecessor to Sciencebase.com also launched 1999). The site brought the latest news from the world of chemistry to web surfers everywhere.

After, almost a decade and 75 packed issues of Reactive Reports, the webzine is undergoing an overhaul, part of which has involved the relocation of the site’s servers from ACD/Labs to DB’s own web hosting. This transfer has allowed us to implement a Wordpress blog as part of the site, as well as to revamp the format of the main pages. The archives will remain intact as will the humor and links pages. The site’s homepage is in transition and currently working as a hybrid between the previous incarnation of Reactive Reports and the new chemistry blog.

Please let us know if you spot any missing files in the archives, graphics or scripts that have gone AWOL, or links that lead to cob webs or deadends.

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Post by David Bradley Science Writer. You can get in touch with David via email or check out his CV on the Sciencebase.com site.

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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
 - Albert Einstein