Many thanks for your helpful mail On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Robert Belford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter and all, > > I see from your blog post that this will happen Sep. 4, 2010, which is not > too far off. Yes. We are hoping we can create a critical mass of interest and activity by then. Your interest is an excellent start. From the Green Chemistry perspective, is it possible to connect to > resources like the ACS GCI Green Chemistry Resource Exchange > http://www.greenchemex.org/ . I know Bob Hanson was involved in its > initial development (he is the person who introduced me to BO). Well done Bob! > I just ran a ConfChem on Green Chemistry and Sustainability oriented > towards educators and could contact some of the people from ACS GCI (they > contributed a paper)....although ACS is not a bastion of open science, I > think the GCI is quite "open" (a word I often misunderstand) and are trying > to reach out to people. > The primary intention at this stage is to create a data-driven experiment with greenness providing the motivation and scope. We welcome anyone from anywhere - the main thing is to see how well we can collect Open resources. > > This also seems like the type of project Julie Haack who has been working > on the GEMS (Greener Educational Materials) and GCEdNET (Green Chemistry > Education Network) would be interested in helping out with. I could contact > her if you are not familiar with her or her efforts. > > http://greenchem.uoregon.edu/gems.html > http://cmetim.ning.com/ > > Although I have been an active lurker on the BO list I have really > appreciated the stuff you folks are doing, and I agree with Henry in that > the more we learn about and promote green and sustainable chemistry, the > better off we all are. > Within the initial timescale we should be able to measure things such as: * solvents used * temperatures * times * reagents * yields all of which can map onto greenness. Whether the motivation shows through we don't of course yet know. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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