http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/nuclear-chemistry-web.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/nuclear-chemistry-web.html/comment-page-1#comment-115722 David Bradley Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:54:00 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/nuclear-chemistry-web.html#comment-115722 To what substances are you referring? Every chemical? Chemists have been working on this kind of notion for years. Theoretical chemistry has taken huge strides in developing models and actually predicting new molecules and reaction outcomes that were previously thought impossible. Similarly, drug designers can use so-called "in silico" techniques to design compounds that will have particular properties and so take better aim at disease targets than almost random conglomerations of atoms and bonds might. We are not quite at the point of referring to a virtual chem lab, but every journey begins with a single step, as they say. To what substances are you referring? Every chemical? Chemists have been working on this kind of notion for years. Theoretical chemistry has taken huge strides in developing models and actually predicting new molecules and reaction outcomes that were previously thought impossible. Similarly, drug designers can use so-called “in silico” techniques to design compounds that will have particular properties and so take better aim at disease targets than almost random conglomerations of atoms and bonds might. We are not quite at the point of referring to a virtual chem lab, but every journey begins with a single step, as they say.

]]> http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/nuclear-chemistry-web.html/comment-page-1#comment-115707 Patrick C Leaden Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:48:47 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/nuclear-chemistry-web.html#comment-115707 Would it be safe to say that if you knew every conceivable property of the substances being used "down pat", then you should be able to create a virtual chem lab? Wouldn't it be similar to weather predicting, especially with quantum computing a decade away? Would it be safe to say that if you knew every conceivable property of the substances being used “down pat”, then you should be able to create a virtual chem lab? Wouldn’t it be similar to weather predicting, especially with quantum computing a decade away?

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