Teaching molecular structure using Jmol Robert M Hanson

Teaching molecular structure using Jmol Robert M. Hanson Department of Chemistry, St. Olaf College Northfield, MN 55057 August 19, 2009 238 th ACS National Meeting Washington, DC

The Jmol Project • • Jmol molecular visualization project Open-source Jmol. sourceforge. net Active user/developer community about 400 “users” about 150 “developers” collectively 23, 000 list messages

The Jmol Community • Professional graphics designers • Professional developers • Professors, graduate students, undergraduates

The Jmol Community • Generally one of three focal points: – Research – Publishing – Education

The Jmol Community • Generally one of three focal points: – Research • Computational chemistry visualization • Structural biology • Electron microscopy/X-ray crystallography – Publishing – Education

JR Schmidt, U. Wisconsin “Web. MO” http: //www. webmo. net/

Peter Rose, RCSB http: //www. rcsb. org/pdb/explore/jmol. do? structure. Id=1 LDN

Patrick Carroll, U. Penn. http: //macxray. chem. upenn. edu/

The Jmol Community • Generally one of three focal points: – Research – Publishing • Interactive website content • Professional graphics design • Database front ends – Education

Frieda Reichsman, http: //pubs. acs. org/doi/media/10. 1021/cb 600303 y/figure 2. htm

Tim Driscoll Mol. Vis http: //molvis. sdsc. edu/fgij/fg. htm? mol=1 ldn

Alan Hewat, http: //icsd. fiz-karlsruhe. de/icsd/

The Jmol Community • Generally one of three focal points: – Research – Publishing – Education • High School • General chemistry • Organic chemistry • Biochemistry • Inorganic chemistry • Computational chemistry

The Molecular Workbench

The Molecular Workbench Charles Xie, Concord Consortium http: //mw. concord. org/modeler/

Molecular Symmetry Dean Johnston, Otterbein College, http: //symmetry. otterbein. edu/

Bob Hanson, http: //www. stolaf. edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/explore. htm

Cool. Molecules Mike Mc. Guan Melanie Casavant Bob Hanson, http: //www. stolaf. edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/explore. htm