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- Another 25,000 molecular models have been added.
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- The molecular display interface (controls) have been refined.
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- Extensive user controls have been added!
- NCI NSC numbers have been added as a Search 'keyword'
Just enter the complete NSC number (no dashes). For info, see:
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- Bookmarking of NCI NSC structures is also now supported.
- Search now uses exact formula matching to search the entire database
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Molecule of the Month
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Octanitrocubane
http://www.webmolecules.com/cgi-bin/webmolpage.cgi?octntrcb.m3d
Formula: C8 N8 O16 Weight: 464.132(1) g/mol
Wonderful! Amazing! It's something brand new.
A dense energetic, its certainly true!
Which means you must give it lots of clear room
'cause if you don't - Badda bing, badda BOOM!
(with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
First synthesized by Philip Eaton and Mao-Xi Zhang at the
University of Chicago in 1999 (with the structure proven by
crystallographer Richard Gilardi of NRL) as recently reported in
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39 (2), 404 - 401
Provided they can synthesize it's most compact form,
it is expected to be as much as 30% more powerful than HMX,
the military's most powerful conventional explosive.
It appears to be quite stable, but current yields are too small
for large scale testing. And while current synthetic routes are
too impractical for mass production, new avenues are also being
explored.
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Recent Upgrades and New Features
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- The WebMolecules server/network completely upgraded.
- You can search the entire WebMolecules Library by formula.
- SEARCH can now accept formula strings with elements in any order.
- Email Models to Friends. Use the Email-a-Model link.
- 100's of large macro-structures have been added.
- New Visitor Uploads are available in Category 28.0
- Support for both Chime and VRML plug-ins
- For performance reasons, large molecules (>150 atoms)
are available for the Chime viewer only.
- Mirror sites for the VRML plug-ins have been added. See:
http://www.webmolecules.com/vrmlint.shtml
- Mirror sites for the Chime plug-in has been added. See:
http://www.webmolecules.com/chimeint.shtml
- Resizable viewing window
- Support for uploads and model requests
- Improved support for bookmarks
- 3D coordinate downloads (M3D, MOL, PDB)
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