About Chemmunity:

To see whether the internet and Web 2.0 technologies can facilitate a global collaboration to solve interesting and novel chemistry questions--we will take a chemistry question from hypothesis to peer-reviewed chemical paper with all chemmunity participants in the author list or acknowledgements. This is ideal for scientists who would like to be authors on research papers that are outside their niche, and scientists who like to work in groups collaboratively and synergistically.

Anyone who can pass the very easy registration step. The registration step shows a molecule that any chemist anywhere should be able to recognize. The point of registration is to prevent spammers from attacking the website. After you've submitted your registration, you will be sent the project-password via e-mail which allows you to post and edit this webpage and contribute. To qualify for the Authors' list you need to perform some experiment, measurement, or calculation regarding the question. To qualify for the Acknowledgements section you simply need to offer feedback in the Comments and Discussion section--this could include links to relevant articles, interpretation of data, suggesting an alternate hypothesis, or recommending further experiments. Since, the chemmunity concept necessitates straightforward and readily solved chemistry questions, there is a strong probability that your skill set will be useful and your time well utillized.

The Mystery in Hexaiodobenzene. Don't like Solid State Chemistry or Organic Chemistry? Don't worry, the next projects will be in chemical education in tandem with a chemical-biology/materials-science project.