Molecules

[BarryS]

Further to Ant's remark about abbreviated Journal names being funnier that the real ones, check out this page: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistr.../sillymols.htm

[Ant]

That's a good one Actually one of the things I work on is on there, Luciferase.

On a side note does anyone know of any software for drawing chemical formulae? I mean the basic line drawings not the 3D stuff, I have software for that.

[Brian R.]

Ant - I have two different programs for that, ChemDraw and ChemWindows. There's another called IsisDraw. ChemDraw is the most popular.

Adamantane - That's funny. I've heard of that molecule thousands of times in my career as a chemist and never got it. LOL

One of my favorite tricks as a high school student was sneaking up behind a group of students and blowing over the top of an open jar of cadaverine or butyric acid (rancid butter). I would then disappear before the smell wafted to them.

[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 24 January 2001).]

[Johnny Ray]

LOL......From the site:

"This is just one of a number of bastadins, which are molecules isolated from the marine sponge Ianthella basta."

I confess! I've contributed to several of those numbers:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8383731&dopt=Abstract

I'm Carney JR.

John

[Brian R.]

That's funny - I've created topoisomerase II inhibitors also...