I seem to have broken that. Don't worry --- it did work and will work the way you expect. My VPN is down -- I know what is wrong with the Mac/applet business, but I can't fix it tonight.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Philip Bays <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob: > I and a colleague, are playing with the comparison applet and the page with > two JME applets on it. Consider 2-fluorobutane. If we put the R isomer in > the right-hand screen (the correct answer), and correctly draw the R in the > left, we get a "yes". If we draw the S in the left we get the "different > compound" message. If, however, we draw the structure in the left-hand > window with no stereochemistry defined, we also get the "yes" answer. Of > course that is partially correct, but does not serve the purpose for > teaching students how to draw the structure, or comparing structures. Same > issue with 2-butanol. So.... > > Phil > > J. Philip Bays > Professor of Chemistry > Department of Chemistry and Physics > Saint Mary's College > Notre Dame, IN 46556 > (574) 284-4663 > [email protected] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Ave. Northfield, MN 55057 http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr phone: 507-786-3107 If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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