In May 2015, the EPSRC funding council in the UK required researchers to publish the outcomes of the funded work to include an OA (open access) version of the narrative and to cite the managed research data used to support the research with a DOI (digital object identifier). I was discussing these aspects with a senior manager (research outcomes) at the EPSRC and he asked me to provide some examples from my area of chemistry; here are some.
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Some examples of open access publications citing managed research data (RDM).
Tuesday, January 5th, 2016Could anyone comment on any recent calculated results on the planarity, or lack thereof, of azobenzene?
Sunday, December 20th, 2015Deviations from planarity of trigonal carbon and from linearity of digonal carbon.
Sunday, September 13th, 2015Previously, I explored deviation from ideal tetrahedral arrangements of four carbon ligands around a central (sp3) carbon using crystal structures. Now it is the turn of digonal (sp1) and trigonal (sp2) carbons.
π-Resonance in thioamides: a crystallographic “diff” with amides.
Saturday, September 5th, 2015The previous post explored the structural features of amides. Here I compare the analysis with that for the closely related thioamides.
π-Resonance in amides: a crystallographic reality check.
Saturday, September 5th, 2015The π-resonance in amides famously helped Pauling to his proposal of a helical structure for proteins. Here I explore some geometric properties of amides related to the C-N bond and the torsions about it.
A sea-change in science citation? The Wikipedia Science conference.
Thursday, September 3rd, 2015The first conference devoted to scientific uses of Wikipedia has just finished; there was lots of fascinating stuff but here I concentrate on one report that I thought was especially interesting. To introduce it, I need first to introduce WikiData. This is part of the WikiMedia ecosystem, and one of the newest. The basic concept is really simple.
Mesomeric resonance in substituted benzenes: a crystallographic reality check.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015Previously, I showed how conjugation in dienes and diaryls can be visualised by inspecting bond lengths as a function of torsions. Here is another illustration, this time of the mesomeric resonance on a benzene ring induced by an electron donating substituent (an amino group) or an electron withdrawing substituent (cyano).
A visualisation of the effects of conjugation; dienes and biaryls.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015Here is another exploration of simple chemical concepts using crystal structures. Consider a simple diene: how does the central C-C bond length respond to the torsion angle between the two C=C bonds?