Wikipedia:Chemistry Collaboration of the Month

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The current Chemistry Collaboration of the Month is Ugi reaction.
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Every month a Chemistry Collaboration of the Month will be picked using this page. The goal of each collaboration is to take an undeveloped or underdeveloped chemistry-related topic and improve it over the course of the month, ideally to the level of a featured article. At the end of each month, the topic with the most support votes will be selected for the next collaboration.

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Contents

[edit] Previous Collaborations of the Month

[edit] Current Collaboration of the Month

[edit] Ugi reaction

Nominated 2006-10-05

Support:

  1. ~K 04:46, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
  2. Walkerma 06:56, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  3. Stone 15:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  4. * last miute entry: V8rik 17:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
  5. * Another last minute entry: Dirk Beetstra T C 17:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC) (seen the previous CCOTM's, a reaction/mechanism is a good next one).

Comments:

  • For a reaction with such a huge number of applications, variations, and modifications, this article needs a little help from friends. -- ~K 04:46, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
  • As a student of LMU it is hard to support a article from TUM, but its woth the work!--Stone 15:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selecting the next Collaboration

[edit] Nominating an article

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[edit] Voting on nominated articles

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[edit] Nominations for next Collaboration of the Month

[edit] Evaporation

Nominated 2006-08-14

Support:

  1. GregRM 14:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
  2. Walkerma 07:07, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals

Nominated 04:02, Wednesday December 13, 2006 (UTC)

Support:

  1. - Jack (talk) 12:20, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Although technically an article on law, this piece of legislature will have enormous reprocussions for the chemical industry throughout the whole of the European Union. Chemists everywhere must come to learn exactly what this will entail, as it will come to concern us all in the next 5 years. - Jack (talk) 12:20, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Solubility

Nominated 04:02, Wednesday December 13, 2006 (UTC)

Support:

  1. ErikHeidt 02:14, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  2. Walkerma 06:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Solubility is a complex topic that is not often fully grasped when first encountered, but is critical to understanding many chemical processes and phenomena. Many chemical processes involve reacting or processing materials in solution, and manipulating the solubility of one or more materials to effect basic operations like extraction, precipitation, washing, etc. A solid article on solubility may provide a foundation for articles on more complex topics.

- ErikHeidt 02:14, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

  • We need to consider the related articles solvent and solution; by all means let's focus on solubility first. Walkerma 06:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Catalysis

Nominated 00:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Support
  1. Rifleman 82 00:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Comments

Article is in an appalling state for such an important concept! --Rifleman 82 00:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

  • appalling? please explain appalling V8rik 17:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
    • This was the state of the article when I nominated it for the CotM. I felt that the article was extremely brief and did not cover the many facets of catalysis, thus appalling. Later, I checked the discussion pages, and merged the information from catalyst. I think it's much more complete now, but the second half of the article (all after biocatalysis, inclusive) can be much improved. --Rifleman 82 18:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
        • I agree with V8rik - catalysis looks good to me, by prevailing standards. It is the sub-articles on catalysis that merit attention - I would recommend that the focus be on economically significant ones - Ziegler-Natta catalysis, hydroformylation, hydrogenation, transfer hydrogenation, nitrogen fixation, epoxidation. Some of these are in rough shape. These are the areas where people are being employed, money is being made, and where the masses should know more about. IMHO.--Smokefoot 18:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
          • Could not agree more, the secondary articles are just as much important. I appeal to everyone currently contributing to the distillation article to have a look at secondary articles such as fractional distillation and theoretical plates as well (many do). If I may point to an appalling article in my view it is enzyme kinetics: a 40 KB monster too long to read mainly because it cannibalizes its secondary articles such as Michaelis-Menten kinetics. If you would just scrap everything in enzyme kinetics already covered in the secondary articles you would perhaps end up with a very elegant 15 KB overview article representing enzyme kinetics. Perhaps for one of the future collaborations we should nominate an entire category and not focus too much on a single article, so lets say next collaboration of the month: Category:Catalysts V8rik 19:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
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