UWI-Mona, Chemistry AVI files
It was originally intended that a number of short movie clips be
prepared featuring different pieces of equipment and their use;
eg FT-IR, sample preparation, sample compartment, instrument
appearance and typical spectrum, etc.
From the log files, it is obvious that only a limited number of
North American sites can receive these generally large files and
that most others abort the download or time out.
My first attempt at video capture was prepared at The
University of Leeds some time ago.
Thanks to Jon Maber (it is his hand) and Prof. Andrew Booth.
They have created some excellent examples of .AVI files, which
can be found at the Bionet site in
Leeds.
Pseudo molecular graphics
Again, thanks to Jon Maber who wrote the software used in
creating the following animation files.
An overly simplistic view of the chelation of 1,2-diaminoethane
by replacement of bound ammonia groups-1.7 MB. Further details on
CHELATION can be found here.
The following files show rotations of simple molecules, such
as caffeine.
If you are interested in seeing more on coffee and caffeine then
look at the section from here.
A clip showing the relationship of octahedrally coordinated
groups to tetrahedral groups can be found here -300 KB.
Video formats and conversion
Various formats are available for video clips such as AVI, MPEG,
FLIC, Real etc. and conversion procedures between them are now
fairly easy to do with freeware or shareware.
One such is VideoMach,
others can be found listed on Allen's
WinAppList or at mnsi.net
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Copyright (c) 2002 by Robert John Lancashire,
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Created and maintained by Prof. Robert J.
Lancashire,
The Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies,
Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
Created Dec-94. Last modified 27th November 2002.