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M. S. Madison, K.-P. Schulz, A. A. Korytko, M. E. Munk, SESAMI an integrated desktop structure elucidation tool, Internet Journal of Chemistry, 1998, 1, 34. 

Durand, P.J., Pasari, R., Baker, J.W. and Tsai, C. (1999). An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Analysis of Molecules. Internet Journal of Chemistry, 2 - Article 17. 

Gasteiger, J. (1998). Making the Computer Understand Chemistry. Internet Journal of Chemistry, 1 - Article 33. 

CML = chemical markup language ETJC = Electronic Journal of Theoretical Chemistry, HTML = hypertext markup language UC = Internet Journal of Chemistry, MIME = multi-purpose internet mail extensions SGML = standard generalized markup language VRML = virtual reality modeling language. 

The following has been primarily extracted from the Internet home page of this newly established Joumal and describes how this journal will be a new, different, and truly electronic journal, not an electronic version of a print or print-oriented journal. 1 have chosen to use the material almost verbatim because it describes a likely scenario and plan for the future of electronic journals. Also, at present it is the only such journal of its kind, as indicated by the description and discussion above of the current electronic-type Journals now available. While 1 am very confident that by the time this article is published there will be other similar Journals in chemistry, the Internet Journal of Chemistry is highlighted here for both its value and uniqueness. 

The aim of the Internet Journal of Chemistry is to promote the use of the Internet and development of network resources to... 

Wang XK, Shen NF, Han SH, et al. Journal of Chemistry, 52(6) 613-619, 1994. Zhang XL. Chemistry of Complex, Beijing Higher Education Press, 1991, 422. Zhang SY. Chemistry Letters (Internet), c01005, 2001. 

Eric Scerri studied chemistry at the Universities of London, Cambridge and Southampton, and obtained a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from King s College, London on the question of "The Reduction of Chemistry to Quantum Mechanics," He has been a research felloiu in the history and philosophy of science at the London School of Economics and at the California Institute of Technology. He is currently an assistant professor of chemistry at Bradley University, where he also teaches histoiy and philosophy of chemistry, which are also his main research interests. He is editor of the new journal Foundations of Chemistry. Address Department of Chemistry, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625. Internet scerri bradley.edu. 

Eric R. Scerri is a lecturer in chemistry and the history and philosophy of science at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the founder and edi-tor-in-chief of the journal Foundations of Chemistry and the author o/The Periodic Tabic Its Story and Its Significance (Oxford University Press, 2007). He received his Ph.D. in the his ton/ and philosophy of science from King s College London. Address Department of Chemistry Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569. Internet scerri chem.ucla.edu... 

Domain Where Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Technology Meet (see above) p. 11. The paper, Use of quantitative structure-property relationships in predicting the Krafft point of anionic surfactants by M. Jalali-Heravi and E. Konouz, Internet Electronic Journal of Molecular Design, 2002, 1, 410, has a nice introduction and useful references. It can be downloaded at http //www.biochempress.com/av01 0410.html. 

There are several highly useful sources of data on the absorption spectra and photochemistry of atmospheric species. NASA publishes on a regular basis a summary of kinetics and photochemical data directed to stratospheric chemistry (DeMore et al., 1997). However, much of the data is also relevant to the troposphere. This document can be obtained from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Alternatively, the data are available through the Internet (see Appendix IV). IUPAC also publishes regularly in The Journal of Physical Chemical Reference Data a summary directed more toward tropospheric chemistry (Atkinson et al., 1997a, 1997b). Finally, Nolle et al. (1999) have made available a CD-ROM containing the UV-visible spectra of species of atmospheric interest. 

Tables of contents for the current and archival issues of chemistry journals are free online, and usually abstracts are also provided by the publisher. Search engiues give details of the Internet addresses (URLs) for chemistry journals, aud there are also websites that provide hyperlinks to most of the chemistry journals currently online, for example, Cambridge University s Department of Chemistry website http //www.ch.cam.ac.uk/c2k/. Free full-text chemistry journals on the web are listed on the Belarusian State University website http //www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/fulltext.htm. (The content and permanence of any website cannot be guaranteed, and Internet addresses are subject to modification.)...

Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data — Published jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the American Institute of Physics, this quarterly journal contains compilations of evaluated data in chemistry, physics, and materials science. It is available in print and on the Internet, [ojps.aip.org/jpcrd/]... 

The Electronic Journal of Theoretical Chemistry (ETJC) (John Wiley Sons) is similar to the above three journals, but there are some small differences According to their Internet home page EJTC publishes in electronic form only. The publication model will be article by article with no preset frequency. New articles will be announced on the EJTC Home Page and subscribers will be alerted by e-mail. An annual CD-ROM archive of all manuscripts published during the year will form part of the subscription package. Table of Contents and other information are available without subscription via the public access area of the EJTC Home Page . While the table of contents is free to nonsubscribers, software and book reviews can be read only by subscribers. 

Publication on the Internet offers many advantages for chemists. Documents can contain color graphics, movies, chemical structures, spectra, raw data, and so forth, most of which is difficult (if not impossible) or prohibitively expensive to include in traditional publications. The UC will publish articles in any and all areas of chemistry which take advantage of the special attributes of the Internet, The Journal will publish... 

I would like to end this brief overview of graph theory and its use in chemistry with a personal comment on my own work. A stimulus for this came after having a look at a list of the 125 most cited papers published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, displayed on the Internet by the American Chemical Society (http //pubs.acs.org/JACS) on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of this journal (2003). Among a sizable list of Nobel Laureates and numerous equally illustrious chemists. I was pleased to find a paper of mine listed in position 94. The paper, entitled On Characterization of Molec-... 

It is worth noting that the past few years have witnessed tremendous development of web-based information resources. Notably, the PubMed search tool [4] has made the investigation of any life sciences topic much easier. It offers keyword and author (as well as structure and sequence) searches and covers a wide range of medicinal chemistry-related journals. This resource, coupled with e-journals, affords the medicinal chemist the tools to keep up with any research topics of interest. Because of the public nature of the Web, now a chemist can sometimes find critical journal articles on the Web that do not show up until much later in traditional literature sources. It is not uncommon that scientific meeting presentations can be found on the Web. Indeed, the Internet tools we have all become familiar with also have made the professional life of the medicinal chemist much easier. 

This is an opportunity for you to carry out a piece of Independent research on a topic that interests you. It may be something you have covered in Advanced Higher Chemistry this session, or something that you covered at Higher or earlier years, or it may be a topic you have read about on the internet or from other media sources. You may find that scientific journals such as School Science Review, New Scientist and Scientific American are useful in helping you to choose a topic for your project. 

At this moment, the NIST Chemistry WebBook and the Beilstein are the two most useful search tools for molecular structure and property relations. There are many more types of properties available in the research literature of interest only to a smaller set of readers these will not be listed in the general-purpose handbooks, but are to be found in specialized books and journals. Our ability to search for such properties in the research literature on the Internet is increasing rapidly, and students should practice doing such searches. Many of the required properties have not been tabulated in a searchable electronic database for example, flammability, toxicity, ozone hole potential, and greenhouse gas potential. Information on health, safety, and the environment that is publicly available on websites is listed in the references. 

A wealth of texts, e.g. those by Clark21 and by Pople and coworkers22, and the series Reviews in Computational Chemistry23 provide comprehensive overviews on the whole field of computational chemistry, in particular on quantum chemistry. The Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry24, to appear in 1998, will provide a comprehensive review on state-of-the-art computational chemistry, written by world-leading experts in the field. The Internet also provides an online forum of computational chemistry related sites, e.g. the Fourth Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference (ECCC4)25 and the Journal... 

In addition to case studies, a course journal has also been an effective tool. Students were asked to complete problems related to basic chemistry topics and internet resources in the journal. For example, end-of-chapter problems in the textbook12 were often assigned and completed in the journal. Students were also asked to record comments and questions related to course materials and to maintain a project log. Specifically, journal entries included responses to and analysis of internet resources, responses to and analysis of lecture material, critical responses to periodical articles and government documents, project ideas, and project progress including data, interviews, and event logs. The journals were collected at least one time during the quarter and at the end of the quarter. 

A significant number of reviews and books on combinatorial libraries [1 1], molecular diversity [5-8], and solid-phase synthesis [9,10] have appeared in the last 3 years. For a more in-depth look at the evolution of this area, the reader is referred to these publications. In addition, a new journal has been started dealing with molecular diversity. This journal, Molecular Diversity, is published by ESCOM and is available in printed and electronic form. Associated with it is an Internet worldwide web site devoted to combinatorial chemistry and molecular diversity which can be accessed as www.vesta.pd.com. 

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