In the previous post, I noted that a chemistry publisher is about to repeat an earlier experiment in serving pre-prints of journal articles. It would be fair to suggest that following the first great period of journal innovation, the boom in rapid publication “camera-ready” articles in the 1960s, the next period of rapid innovation started around 1994 driven by the uptake of the World-Wide-Web. The CLIC project[cite]10.1080/13614579509516846[/cite] aimed to embed additional data-based components into the online presentation of the journal Chem Communications, taking the form of pop-up interactive 3D molecular models and spectra. The Internet Journal of Chemistry was designed from scratch to take advantage of this new medium.[cite]10.1080/00987913.2000.10764578[/cite] Here I take a look at one recent experiment in innovation which incorporates “augmented reality”.[cite]10.1055/s-0035-1562579[/cite]
Archive for August, 2016
Journal innovations – the next step is augmented reality?
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016A periodic table for anomeric centres, this time with quantified interactions.
Monday, August 8th, 2016The previous post contained an exploration of the anomeric effect as it occurs at an atom centre X for which the effect is manifest in crystal structures. Here I quantify the effect, by selecting the test molecule MeO-X-OMe, where X is of two types:
A periodic table for anomeric centres.
Saturday, August 6th, 2016In the last few posts, I have explored the anomeric effect as it occurs at an atom centre X. Here I try to summarise the atoms for which the effect is manifest in crystal structures.
Stereoelectronic effects galore: bis(trifluoromethyl)trioxide.
Thursday, August 4th, 2016Here is a little molecule that can be said to be pretty electron rich. There are lots of lone pairs present, and not a few electron-deficient σ-bonds. I thought it might be fun to look at the stereoelectronic interactions set up in this little system.