Way back when, I threw together an app called Green Solvents, which got started anachronistically from a tweet by Sean Ekins (which I misinterpreted, but it got the conversation started, so all is well). Since mid-2011, the app hasn’t had much attention, but that has now changed: it has been rewritten and given a much more modern look. The overhauled version is live on the iTunes AppStore, and is free to anyone with an iThing. Continue reading
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Solvent selection in Green Lab Notebook app
The next update of the Green Lab Notebook app brings the environmental solvent properties to the selection dialog, which is a convenient way to insert solvents into a reaction scheme. Continue reading
Presentation about the Green Lab Notebook at ICCE2014 Toronto
Slides for a talk about the upcoming Green Lab Notebook (GLN) app, which was presented this morning at the International Conference on Chemistry Education (ICCE2014) in Toronto. The short presentation describes how the field of green chemistry can be brought closer to both students and professional chemists with the assistance of an accessible and easy to use mobile app. The presentation was given by Holly Hampson, since I’m currently situated much further away from the event.
Winter project: Green Lab Notebook
The Canadian winter has announced itself, coinciding with American thanksgiving. Apart from a lot more time indoors and a significantly increased consumption of heavy stout ales, it signifies time to hunker down and concentrate on product development for awhile. Continue reading
Green Solvents now sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry
The latest version of Green Solvents (1.1) is now available on the AppStore. The first thing you’re likely to notice is that the banner advertising is gone. Take a closer look, and you’ll notice the acknowledgment that the app is now sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Green Solvents app has been tied in with ChemSpider references from the outset. Given that the Royal Society of Chemistry owns ChemSpider, has a long standing interest in Green Chemistry, and an increasing role in the burgeoning ecosystem of mobile apps for chemistry, this is a natural progression.
If you have an iPhone, iPod or iPad, check out the Green Solvents app: it’s free, and it couldn’t be any simpler to use. And stay tuned for further announcements, there are more on the way!
Open & green: recent developments
2013 has gotten off to a great start in general, but particularly so for two free apps. After we published an article about using apps for green solvent selection in the American Chemical Society’s new green-themed journal, the ACS picked up the news and released it as an entry for their weekly PressPac. We’re very optimistic that this will help get the word out, and if anyone wants more information for a followup article, we’re all over that.
There has also been an increasing amount of interest in the Open Drug Discovery Teams (ODDT) project, and we’ve just added 3 more topics in the last few days, Rare Disease Report, Fibromuscular Dysplasia and iCancer. Continue reading
Green chemistry apps in the literature
There is now at long last a publication describing our efforts to promote green chemistry using mobile platforms: see the latest article in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. It’s free to download the PDF, so check it out now. The article describes the Green Solvents app, the green-relevant calculations that are included in the Yield101 app, and the Open Drug Discovery Teams topic devoted to green chemistry. There’s also a nod to the Lab Solvents app (for Android), which is a more recent creation.
Lab Solvents app for Android nearing completion
Another app is on its way for Android, called Lab Solvents. It’s not quite finished yet, but as you can see in the snapshot to the right, it is close. The new app is basically a fusion between the iOS apps Approved Drugs, TB Mobile and Green Solvents, built for Android. Continue reading
2011 redux
2011 has been a busy year for Molecular Materials Informatics, with new products, new features and new developments coming on hard and fast. 2012 begins tomorrow, and promises to keep up the same breakneck pace. This post is an executive summary of some of the news that was released over the year. Leaving out of course some of the projects that have yet to be unveiled.
At the beginning of 2011, there were just two products, with the same name: the Mobile Molecular DataSheet, or MMDS for short. Due to the rapidly shifting fortunes of mobile device platform makers, the iOS version for iPhone, iPod and iPad took centre stage in 2011, leaving the BlackBerry version behind. The iOS version was mostly feature complete by the beginning of 2011, having already added webservices access and reaction editing. Throughout 2011 the product has steadily matured, with a regimen of software updates adding minor and not-so-minor features, enhancements, bug fixes and ergonomic improvements.
Yield101 now includes solvent density
The Yield101 app introduced a list of solvents several releases back, which allows browsing of solvents and convenient addition as a reactant, with just a double-tap. Version 1.0.5, which has recently been released on the AppStore, includes density values for each of these solvents.
Consider the following Wittig reaction:
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