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Organic chemistry is an old, well-developed discipline and is undoubtedly
one of the most important areas of science. However, the teaching of
organic chemistry has not moved hand in hand with the modern technological
developments that are routinely used in the practice of organic chemistry.
Molecular modeling is one of the areas of modern organic chemistry that
will rapidly develop into an indispensable tool in the lab and in the
classroom. However, molecular modeling programs have tended to be
expensive, technologically demanding, and single-computer-centered.
Exorga, Inc. wants to change the way students, teachers and researchers
routinely do molecular modeling by providing you with a suite of molecular
modeling programs - The STR3DI Molecular Modelers - that :
is powerful, very easy to use, but is very affordable
is computer friendly and can be executed even on "low-end" computer systems
uses small, simple structure data files that will allow you to store these
economically.
Recently, we have taken the giant step of enabling STR3DI32.EXE - the
flagship of our STR3DI Molcular Modelers - to be "Web Wise", that is to be
able to function as "helper" programs with the very popular Web Browser -
NetScape. If you have STR3DI32.EXE , and have configured your NetScape
appropriately, then whenever you are browsing the web, and encounter a URL
that contains one of the STR3DI structure data files, then clicking on that
data file will launch STR3DI32 and the molecular modeling of the compound
encoded in that data file.
You can do an entire molecular modeling exercise on that compound, and save
the data (if you wish) in whatever appropriate form, before, seamlessly,
returning to your web browsing. Exorga, Inc. will maintain a web page
with the data files of many interesting structures, and will add structures
that you wish to be included. You could also use your private web-site
for this purpose.
Since the WWW is universally available, easy to access, and cheap to access
(often only a local telephone call), this development will have a
tremendous impact on the ease with which -
teachers can set up molecular modeling exercises for their classes, via the
WWW
teachers can share structure data files with their students and colleagues,
via the WWW
researchers can perform and share structure data files with their
colleagues, via the WWW
We all agree that the INTERNET and the World Wide Web - WWW - are important
parts of the future. These media will dominate our personal and
professional lives in the areas of information transfer and entertainment,
and will become indispensable in teaching and industry.
Visit us at <a
href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/exorga">Exorga, Inc.</a> to
learn more about the STR3DI molecular Modelers.
Exorga, Inc.
Consultants in Organic Chemisty and Molecular Modeling
