User talk:Axiosaurus

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[edit] Family and element chemistry pages

Hi, thanks for the note. You are completely right about eating an elephant one bite at a time - that's what Wikipedia is really good at. I set out a couple of years ago to write a page for every significant metal chloride - we only had a handful then, mostly stubs. I "practised" with some lanthanides, then worked though most of groups 1 and 2, then did AlCl3 and many of the first row transition metals, and finished up with a few like SnCl2 and AuCl3. I just wrote perhaps one article every week or two, but when you're working on a series of similar pages you get to know the relevant books, you can really crank our the work with citations. By summer 2005 there were perhaps 15-20 new or greatly expanded articles, I could see a real difference in our coverage - I think you would see the same. I found others joining in the challenge, I think you would too. Although I stopped that work at that point, coverage has probably doubled since then with the addition of nice articles like vanadium tetrachloride, which I've never even edited. Metal chlorides are of course just one little corner of chemistry, but they gave us some coverage of metal compounds.

Oh- be sure to let the Elements project know what you're up to. Once your element work is well under way, it will provide a foundation for others to build on - even if you don't write the article on chemistry of samarium someone else can follow your style. So please go ahead, I think these pages will be very helpful to Wikipedia, we will all be very grateful to you. Just go one element at a time! Thanks again, Walkerma 16:15, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References problem

Hi, in response to your message on Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, the problem is that when you put in in-line references, each one has to end with </ref>, not <ref/>. You also need to put the tag <references /> at the bottom of the article. I've fixed the page for you. Tra (Talk) 16:04, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ogle

Hi, I just took another look at your page and saw where you live. You might be interested to know that I grew up in Whitley Bay, and my brother now lives in Hartburn, Northumberland, quite close to you! He lives in Dr. Sharpe's tower, a mock pele, and he often has a steam roller parked in his driveway (all of us Walkers are rather eccentric!). I look forward to working with you on Wikipedia, and maybe you can join us for a pint when I'm next visiting the UK? Walkerma 20:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Regarding thallium halides, I did some cleanup, I hope you're OK with what I did. If the sections get bigger we could change the ; format over to ===Smaller header=== sections, the main difference being that these show up in the table of contents. Headings (and also page names) on Wikipedia normally only have the first word capitalised - Thallium(I) fluoride not Thallium(I) Fluoride - unless it is a proper noun like United Nations. I think to expand the article I'd like to see a little more on things like reactions and applications - not just structure. We may also want to put some of the basic data (e.g. formula, colour, MP, solubility) into one big table, though we should perhaps discuss the layout in general for such tables first. I think it's an excellent start, you have something to be proud of! And you can be pretty sure that within a few weeks, anyone typing "thallium halides" (or even thallium(III) chloride) will see this as the #1 hit. We should probably still change the minus signs over to − at some point, but I need to go now and work up a Friedel-Crafts reaction! Cheers, Walkerma 18:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Regarding the pic, it is thallium iodide (click on it to see), not NaCl, Ben does a lot of very nice 3D pictures for us like that. If it's wrong, let us know about it. By all means edit the caption if you think it's confusing. My exposure to these things was in grad school, making ortho-iodophenols using I2 and TlOAc + phenols, you get a nice precipitate of orange-yellow TlI. I asked our safety officer how best to clean up the TlI, he didn't want me even to try - he said, "Just package up all the equipment you used into a big bucket, seal it up and we'll get rid of it that way." Thanks again for a nice page. Walkerma 20:34, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Just to let you know, I hadn't forgotten about the new halide pages, I've just been busy. Will try to look both Ga and In halides over this week. Let me know if you do the chalcogenides, too. Cheers, Walkerma 02:58, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Borane(s)

Hi, I'd suggest that if you plan to change the scope of the article away from BH3 to all boranes, you should raise the subject over at WP:Chem. I have felt for a long time that we needed a good single article covering all the boranes, so I'm very glad to hear that you're working on it. It looks pretty nice so far. However, organic chemists do use BH3 complexes a lot for reductions, so borane = BH3 is often seen in the organic literature. I think I would propose keeping borane = BH3, but call the new "family" page boranes, but I'd be interested to hear what others think. What do you think? Cheers, Walkerma 15:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Refs

Nice to see someone go right after important topics in main group chem - WEchem needs that. I encourage you to include titles and DOI's for your references. I just cut and paste these things from tables of contents. This way, others can get a better idea of the content of the paper. Thanks, --Smokefoot 13:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Borides of Al

Sorry to be of little help on the Al-B phases - Wiberg and Holleman indicate that AlB12 is known. I was interested in the nitride article - I had heard that Na2O reacts with H2 but did not know that the nitride underwent a comparable reaction. Cheers,--Smokefoot 22:19, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thallium triiodide

Looks great! Thanks especially for finding the crystal structure ref. Physchim62 (talk) 08:55, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] CaC2

Re: your helpful query: I'll check later, after work (I am at lunch), but I hopefully did not delete much from this article. If I did, my error was not malicious, but one of neglect or sloppiness. I was trying to move the PRC info from the lede to the production part because it seems less general interest but highly relevant to the dynamics of the production part. Again, I will get to this later this evening.---- Smokefoot (talk) 19:56, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cyclo-Sx

The table is very nice, and I am sure that other editors will fill it in over time. I have hopes of eventually writing a short article on S7. I think that the main rings from Steudel (and Schmidt) is captured even in his early reviews, such as Steudel, R., "Homocyclic Sulfur Molecules", Topics Curr. Chem., 1982, 102, 149. But you've got Greenwood and Earnshaw who give good coverage. I admire your attention to chemistry of important but often under-appreciated parts of the periodic table. Best wishes,--Smokefoot (talk) 03:39, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Inorganics and Organometallics - Curation and ChemSpider

You should be able to find the curation effort here. Check out the report here. This is all manual curation with the intent of confirming what's right (structure/names/CAS numbers) and using ChemSpider to help do so and also improving ChemSpider in the process. For example, I want ChemSPider to be structure searchable for "compounds"....organometallics are challenging to draw. Please drop me an email and we can chat via email about details if you want.--ChemSpiderMan (talk) 18:19, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your great work!

We've been meeting on IRC; archived discussions are here. Perhaps you would like to join us every tuesday, 1600 GMT? --Rifleman 82 (talk) 18:16, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

  • My greatest apologies, didn't realise it was actually a user sub-page I reverted, I just saw a blank page. I'll undo my revert. My apologies again. Steve Crossin (talk) 14:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
  • So, I was right to assume that you deleted the page intentionally? I was just patrolling recent changes, saw that page had been blanked, and reverted it. To be honest, I might have done it too quickly. I hate it when ClueBot beats me to it. Lol. Well, no harm done, I suppose. Steve Crossin (talk) 17:15, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

The Chemistry Bond Star
I just wanted to say thanks for all your great contributions to chemistry articles - including catching my errors.  :) -- Ed (Edgar181) 17:56, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

I have added the rollback feature to your user account, and to those other trusted Wikipedia chemists. I hope this helps with reverting any vandalism or other inappropriate edits you come across. (If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it.) -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Potassium manganite

A few years ago Stone and I worked on these manganese oxides in the context of how KMnO4 is produced industrially (judging from the edit activity, the KMnO4 page is consulted often). So rename, revert, or whatever you think should be done. On the topic, aside from MnO42-, the other oxide that really interests me is the blue Mn(V) species as mentioned in Manganate. BTW, I put up a short article on antimony tetroxide recently, which you are welcome to look over. With best wishes,--Smokefoot (talk) 17:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Strontium titanate, Barium titanate and Transition metal oxides

Hi there

Since you're our resident inorg expert, could you have a look at these three? From its name, SrTiO3 sounds like a simple inorganic compound with Sr(2+) cation and TiO3(2-) anion, instead of a mixed oxide. However, I'm not sure enough to comment. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 11:36, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the tag--I know a very unflattering joke about experts!

For my money strontium titanate is best described as a mixed oxide, it is one of those rare "ideal" undistorted perovskites. Perovskites - as Itub says don't have simple anionic units --however there is always some metal oxygen covalent character (for me the existence of ferro and anti ferromagnetic perovskites implying spin linkage on cations via occupied oxygen orbitals to form magnetic sub-lattices supports that view.)
Barium titanate is yet another perovskite but the structure is a bit distorted according to Wells, and it is unusual in that it has so many polymorphs. Wells (1983) says the cubic is not ferroelectric, which symmetry wise sounds right but I would need to look at that.
As for the last article on transition metal oxides well what can I say. --Axiosaurus (talk) 14:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Chemistry Bond Star
For fixing the formerly terrible tungsten carbide article. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 13:33, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Rhenium compounds

I noticed that you edited several articles in this category. Shouldn't some of these articles {Rhenium heptafluoride, eg) be at their IUPAC names (rhenium(VII) fluoride, in this case)? shoy 19:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Chemical compounds are normally named according to their "common names", what the common name is a matter for some debate, often at the chemicals page Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chemicals. If you think ReF7 should be renamed then post a note there. cheers. --Axiosaurus (talk) 08:06, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
It would be great if there were at least redirects from the IUPAC names though. shoy 20:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)