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WikiProject Chemicals is a daughter WikiProject of the WikiProject on Chemistry. It concerns writing and improving articles about chemical compounds in Wikipedia. So far, more than fifty members of Wikipedia have signed up to participate in WikiProject Chemicals.

A worklist of representative chemical compounds has been finalized. Progress on the articles in this list is monitored by participants. Also, templates for Lists of Properties for the compounds have been standardized, as has formatting and naming articles on chemical compounds. Presentation of chemical structures should also be standardized (to some extent). This WikiProject also serves as a forum on how best to present chemicals information and proceed with work on chemicals in Wikipedia.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and look at the worklist. To join, simply list yourself at #Participants by adding your name (and table format) to the section. If you would like to request a new chemistry-related article, please be referred to the WikiProject Chemistry requested articles list.

This WikiProject aims to provide high-quality, standardized articles in Wikipedia for all important chemicals, similar to the Merck Index. This comprises all organic and inorganic compounds, elements, reagents, commodities, pharmaceuticals, pollutants, and other large-scale and small-scale chemicals of interest. Additional focus is given to the selected articles about approx 400 representative chemicals, on the target worklist.

Other chemistry subjects, including chemical groups, ions, methodology of analysis, production, reactions, etc, are included in the Chemistry WikiProject, or in its other daughter wikiproject.

First aim of the Chemicals wikiproject is quality improvement of the worklist. These articles are only quality classified, not importance classified. Note that for historical reasons this Wikiproject does not have a GA-Class.

All other chemicals compounds together, both assessed for quality and importance.

Pages needing cleanup

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Chemistry.

A descendant of this WikiProject is WikiProject Polymers.

Userbox WPChem This user participates in WikiProject Chemicals.

Name	Talk	Special interests
~K	Talk
AbuAmir	Talk	Biochemicals.
Aeron Valderrama	Talk	Biochemistry
Alpo666	Talk	Organic Chemistry
Ambix	Talk	Chemiluminescence Photochromism Pyrotechnics
Axiosaurus	Talk	Main group chemistry
Anner van Hardenbroek	Talk	Biochemistry, Organic chemistry, Quantum chemistry
Lenary	Talk
Ben Mills	Talk	Diagrams, structural formulae, 3D molecular models, chemical education, organic and inorganic chemistry
bfesser	Talk	pH Indicators, Aspirin Derivatives, Dyes, Organic Synthesis
BorisTM	Talk	Article layout, Categories, Infoboxes, Structure images, Templates
Jeff Brideau	Talk	Chemical species used in ion implantation of semiconductor materials
Cacycle	Talk	Chemical structures, Neuropharmacology, Psychoactive compounds, Odorants and aroma compounds, Basic topics and compounds
Chris Roberts	Talk	Medicinal chemistry, Organic chemistry, Neurochemistry
Chem_tom	Talk	Inorganic chemistry
Antony Williams	Talk	Organic chemistry, InChI, ChemSpider, NMR, Nomenclature, Cheminformatics, Structure Drawing and Representation
Colonel Buckshot	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, Electrochemistry, Metallurgy
CrazyChemGuy	Talk
Crl620	Talk	Organic synthesis, NMR, structures
Daniel Quinlan	Talk
Deryck Chan (admin)	Talk
Dirk Beetstra (admin)	Talk	Organometallic chemistry, Organic chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry
EdChem	Talk	Most chemistry, particularly general, organic, and organometallic chemistry
Edgar181 (admin)	Talk	Medicinal chemistry, natural organic compounds
Frederick Chiu	Talk	Inorganic Chemistry. Adding basic properties of chemicals
Freestyle-69	Talk	Organometallic chemistry, basic chemistry. Improving articles wrt grammar and spelling, and ensuring that they present well to the layperson
Gerard Meijssen	Talk	Interested because much of the chemical vocabulary may end up in WiktionaryZ
Gino Graziano	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, Nuclear chemistry, Organic chemistry
Gumbacious	Talk	Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Organic Chemistry, Bioremediation
Harald Stone	Talk	Computational Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
Henry Padleckas	Talk	Various including Organic chemistry, Chemical engineering, and Polymers; Non-chemistry contributions also.
IdiotsOpposite	Talk	Organic Chemistry, particularly in the area of organic chemical synthesis.
J G Campbell	Talk	Biology, Biochemistry, stuff that explodes; presently flailing away at Retinal
J Hill	Talk	Inorganic chemistry
JaeSharp	Talk	Various general interests, format and type checking
JaGa	Talk	Organic chemistry, Structure drawing
Jason McIntosh	Talk
Jeremiah	Talk	Organic synthesis, Supramolecular chemistry, Environmental chemistry
Joanne Slatter	Talk
Kurykh (admin)	Talk
Kpstewart	Talk	Organic chemistry, biochemistry, neurochemistry
Leyo	Talk	Environmental chemistry
Manderson198	Talk	Organic Chemistry, reaction mechanisms, synthesis
Martin Walker	Talk	Also known as Walkerma. Organic synthesis, article assessment
Marshmellis	Talk	Only completed first year uni chemistry, limited knowledge but keen interest
masterleggie	talk	Like physical chemistry but have limited knowledge on organic and inorganic.
Microswitch	Talk	Computer molecule models
Mike Bennison	Talk	Also known as Mothball. Organic chemistry, reaction mechanisms, structures.
Mets501 (admin)	Talk	Everything related to chemistry!
Nate1481	Talk
NatePhysics	Talk
Nch08a	Talk	Organic and Biochemistry
Nevermore78	Talk	Biochemistry, structures and formulae
Nick C	Talk
Nihiltres	Talk
niklo_sv	Talk	Organic chemistry and compounds
Nitin Viswanathan	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, chemical formulae
(oac)	Talk	Psychoactive compounds
Pelirojopajaro	Talk	Organic chemistry, biochemistry, reaction mechanisms
Peter Murray-Rust	Talk	InChI, chemoinformatics
Physchim62 (admin)	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, chemical safety, analytical chemistry
Polonium	talk
Quantockgoblin	Talk	Organic, physical-organic, reactive intermediates (esp. carbenes/stable carbenes), asymmetric catalysis. Lab techniques (esp. Air-sensitive handling). I can draw chemical apparatus, I may even take requests my talk page.
Raymond Ko	Talk
RedWasp	Talk
Riana	Talk	My knowledge is probably not specific or advanced enough to contribute significantly (I'm only in first year), but I enjoy improving existing articles. I also participate in the Spoken WikiProject, currently recording Acetic acid.
Richard Arthur Norton	Talk
Rebelinabox	talk
Rifleman_82 (admin)	Talk	Lab technique, organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry. Enjoy drawing structures. Can drop me a note if you need one done at my talk page.
Silverweed	Talk	Organic chemistry, food chemistry/molecular gastronomy, Combretastatin.
Robert Shimmin	Talk
Rune Welsh (admin)	Talk	You can request structures and SMILES notations in my talk page
Rollie	Talk	Chemistry Undergrad. Keen at drawing structures and mechanisms
Ryan Jones	Talk	Inorganic Chemistry, structure and reactions of metals.
Schuyler Thompson	Talk
Sbrools	Talk	3d models, Organic, Inorganic, SMILES and chemical information.
schneelocke (admin)	Talk
Scoreed	Talk
Shane Di Dona	Talk
Shoy	Talk	Organic and inorganic chemistry, polymers. Chemical engineer by trade.
sic00	Talk	my interests are psychoactive chemical and aromas
Smolamj	Talk	Organic and Biochemistry, structures. I can generate 2D and 3D structures, just inquire at the talk page.
Socksysquirrel	Talk	Organic chemistry and mechanisms, natural products, inorganic and industrial chemistry.
Steviedpeele	Talk	Organic synthesis and mechanisms, plant Biochemistry
Stieltjes	Talk	Industrial chemicals
St3vo	Talk	Medicinal chemistry, Neurochemistry, Biochemistry/Biosynthesis, structure drawings
ThinkOutsideTheTesseract	Talk
Thricecube	Talk	All the basics ie)group metals with a halogen.
Tim Starling	Talk
Tim32	Talk	Organic and organic mathematical chemistry (computer chemistry)
Tyciol	Talk	Organic compounds and inorganic essential minerals, food supplements
Wim van Dorst	Talk	Chemically I'm into chlor-alkali, such as hydrochloric acid, and worklist
Whatcanuexpect	Talk
Xeno Neon	Talk
Yilloslime	Talk	Organometallics, Pesticides, Toxicology
Gagman385	Talk

The following SMART items are defined as the project goals. Progress is monitored through the project worklist.

1. Write a full page for one significant compound of each non-radioactive element in the periodic table. For metals this will usually be an oxide or chloride.
2. Compile a list of 50 common reagents (inorganic and organic) used in chemistry, such as lithium aluminium hydride.
3. Write a full page for a selection of 30 small building block molecules used in simple organic reactions, such as iodomethane
4. Write a full page for the 50 major commodity chemicals, such as styrene and hydrochloric acid.
5. Write a full page for 30 common solvents, e.g., DMF, and water.
6. Write a full page for 50 compounds of biological interest, including amino acids, vitamins and hormones
7. Compile a list of 50 other important compounds of chemical interest, including commodities, pharmaceuticals, as well as environmental pollutants. Examples include NAD, fexofenadine, indole, prismane and dioxins.
8. Write a full page for 30 common polymers, such as PVC

Other goals are project oriented:

1. All articles resulting from this WikiProject should comply with the standard set for featured articles. As a minimum they should have an appropriate chemical infobox. The naming convention for chemicals should be updated, and subsequently complied within those articles.
2. Develop appropriate navigational aids to help users locate chemicals pages relevant to their needs, and which help identify those compounds that have complete pages written. These would help supplement the traditional searches, categories, and list of compounds by being tailored for the specific class of compound. All lists considered part of the wikiproject should be indexed, e.g., by chemical element, Hill system or otherwise.
3. Set up a means of keeping track of progress towards the above goals. An assessment is to be developed and deployed. This is on-going on the /Organization page.

These are not permanent goals, rather they set targets for us that are achievable in a reasonable timescale. One or two may already have been reached, and when we have all of them checked off we can set new goals.

Several streams of discussion are on-going, among others:

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals, recommended for everything
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry, about the WikiProject as a project
• Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox, about the infoboxes specifically
• Some users' talk pages (difficult to find)

The worklist of the Chemicals WikiProject is undergoing continuous updates, to be brought in line with the goals as presented above. Please assist in adding, completing, and otherwise improving it. Work is now in progress to actually update the listed compounds, all to a minimum of {{chem Start}} level

Additionally, not necessarily sequentially, to the above target, all articles on the worklist be enhanced to {{chem A-Class}} level.

Participants are working on developing a style guide for naming, writing and formatting articles on chemical compounds.

The templates of the overall Chemistry Wikiproject will be used. Additionally:

• An {{AminoAcids}} navigational box for amino acid articles has also been defined.
• Two stub templates, viz., {{Organic-compound-stub}} and {{Inorganic-compound-stub}} have been defined and implemented on all chemical compound pages which are still stubs.
• a Userbox {{User WPChem}} has been defined to show your support of the Chemicals wikiproject
• A wikiproject template {{chemicals}} with options: core, class, and importance

Additionally chemical infoboxes have been agreed on as guideline, and are available as templates. For this a {{chembox header}} specific table template has been defined. Three infobox formats have been defined, viz., the {{chembox}} template as a generic table, the {{chembox simple organic}} for organic coumpounds, and {{chembox simple inorganic}} for inorganic compounds.

ChemSPider has added Wikipedia Services Support as explained here: http://www.chemspider.com/blog/providing-some-structured-support-with-chemspiders-wikipedia-services.html . This allows ChemBoxes and Drugboxes to be generated easily. Feedback welcomed. --ChemSpiderMan (talk) 05:16, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The huge list of compounds was recently split into three smaller related lists: list of inorganic compounds, list of organic compounds, and list of biomolecules. The editing work associated with this is now complete.

For filling out the chembox templates, the project has made available a useful data book of gas densities, viscosities and solubility products. Other tables may be added in the future.

• Data book of the Wikiproject

There are many other general reference lists available in Wikipedia for chemicals. These include:

• List of inorganic compounds, for well-known inorganic compounds, including organometallics
• List of organic compounds, for well-known organic compounds, also including organometallics
• List of biomolecules
• Former list of compounds, including all chemical compounds in Wikipedia, now a disambiguation page only
• Inorganic compounds by element, same data, but other order
• Dictionary of chemical formulas, to find a name from a formula
• List of items for which possession is restricted
• List of particles
• Polyatomic ions, listing the common ones
• List of alchemical substances
• Solubility table, table of solubilities of inorganic substances with changing temperature

For elements, similar lists are available for the Elements WikiProject (to be moved there in future):

• Periodic table, (recommended reading)
• List of elements by name
• List of elements by symbol
• List of elements by atomic number

and several others, ordered differently

For minerals, similar lists are available for the Rocks and minerals WikiProject (to be moved in the future):

• List of minerals

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