OUR MOLECULES OF THE MONTH

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In this section we present some molecules from our research projects, which we think may be interesting because of their structure or their chemical or biological properties. Every month we will try add a new molecule to this collection. Some of these pages contain hyperactive 3D images in formats such as pdb (protein database). To view these files you will need a 3D viewer program such as Rasmol (which you can download from the Sun Site Northern Europe ) or WebLab Viewer (which you can download from Molecular Simulations Inc. ). Once you have installed Rasmol or WebLab Viewer in your hard disk, you must set the Helper types in your Browser configuration to recognise the following MIME type: chemical/x-pdb and filename suffix .pdb, and associate this with Rasmol or WebLab Viewer. If you have configured correctly, then clicking on the images in the display should activate your viewer with the molecule in its window. Another option, wich does not require an external helper program, it is to use a plug-in for Netscape 2+ called Chemscape CHIME. You can get a free copy of CHIME from MDL Chemscape Chime.

How to Move the Molecules on the screen:

• Place the mouse cursor over the molecule, press the mouse button (lhs if there are two or more) and move the mouse.
• Press the SHIFT key down whilst you move the mouse cursor up or down the screen to zoom the molecule.
• To see a menu where you can select various options, press the mouse button down for a second or so inside molecule window (on a PC, use the rhs button).

• March: Scorpionine : molecule of the month at the UEX and Imperial College
• April: Beta-lactam
• May: Discotic liquid crystals

Molecules of the month at Imperial College , the University of Bristol, the Oxford University and the University of Birmingham
The WWW Chemical Structures Database
Molecules R US - Hyperactive molecules searcher
Klotho: Biochemical Compounds Declarative Database (molecular models in Gif format)
3-D Virtual Chemistry Library - Vchemlib
3D Exercises in Point Group Symmetry
Chime Resources at UMass

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