CoolMolecules: a web-accessible database of experimentally
determined molecular structures
Robert M. Hanson, Melanie Casavant, and Michael McGuan
St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
Scot Wherland
Washington State University
http://www.chem.wsu.edu/Faculty/wherland.html
228th ACS National Meeting , August 24, 2004
Goals of This Presentation
• Background: “Data-Driven” Chemistry
• Origin of the CoolMolecules Project
• Goals of the Project
• Project Outcomes
• Future Directions
generate data analyze data
generate hypothesesextrapolate hypotheses
Background: “Data-Driven” Chemistry
• Start with raw data
• Transform the data into meaningful information
• Create actual paper 3D model
Background: “Data-Driven Chemistry”
R. M. Hanson, S. A. Bergman, "Data-Driven Chemistry: Making Molecular Models (Literally) from Electron Diffraction Data”, J. Chem. Educ. 1994, 150
• St. Olaf College Chemistry 123
• Start with hand-held models
• Develop concepts as needed
Background: “Molecular Origami”
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/mo/acs2001
Background: “Molecular Origami”
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/mo/acs2001/models.htm
normal quartz
Background: “Molecular Origami”
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/mo/acs2001/models.htm
Background: “Molecular Origami”
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/mo/acs2001/models.htm
Background: “Molecular Origami”
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/mo/acs2001/models.htm
Background: “Molecular Origami”
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/data/f-xef8a.mol
Background: “Molecular Origami”
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/data/f-xef8a.pdf
Background: “Molecular Origami”
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/mo
150,000,000:1 hydrodroxyapatite model (New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY)
generate data(experimental)
analyze data(identify trends)
generate hypothesis(explain shapes
and trends)
extrapolate hypothesis(predict shapes)
Background: focus on analysis
Molecular Origami + Crystal Structure Database
(Bob Hanson) (Scot Wherland)
Origin of the Project: BCCE17
= CoolMolecules: A Molecular Structure Explorer
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
• Expand Scot’s database
• Include foldable “Molecular Origami” models
• Create a widely available, easy interface for searching the experimental data
• Provide strategies for making the database useful in a classroom setting
Goals of the CoolMolecules Project
CoolMolecules Project Outcomes: the site
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
92 electron diffraction (includes all known structures < 1950)
11 infrared spectroscopy
39 microwave spectroscopy
29 neutron diffraction
3 raman spectroscopy
18 ultraviolet spectroscopy
774 x-ray diffraction
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962 total structures
CoolMolecules Project Outcomes: methods
CoolMolecules Project Outcomes: interface
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Project Outcomes: results
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Project Outcomes: options
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Project Outcomes: selection
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: tabulation
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: visualization
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: all to scale
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: trends
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: trends
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: trends
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: all H atoms are present
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: Jmol allows easy exploration
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: just double-click for distances
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: …or angles
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: …bonded or not
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: Jmol visualizes vibrations
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
CoolMolecules Search Results: Jmol “load-in-line” capability
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/vibrate.htm
An Unexpected Outcome: The “Vibration Generator”
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/vibrate.htm
Generating structures “on the fly” – look, Ma, no MOL file!
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/vibrate.htm
Test Platform: The “Vibration Generator”
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/vibrate.htm
Test Platform: The “Vibration Generator”
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/vibrate.htm
Test Platform: The “Vibration Generator”
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/vibrate.htm
Wide-Ranging Flexibility
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/vibrate.htm
Unusual Geometries
CoolMolecules Project Outcomes: Activities
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Just a few of the “cool” structures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc
Future Directions:• complete the online set of PDF folding patterns
• develop a companion site focusing on metalloenzymes
• expand on the periodic table “JavaScript Application Object” idea
• further explore “on-the-fly” Jmol capabilities
• open-source chemistry web project
• chemwebdev-L (Google: chemwebdev)
Acknowledgments:
Funding for this project was provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and St. Olaf College
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/coolmolecules.ppt