Weaver's historic accessible collection of synthetic dyes: a cheminformatics analysis

Autor: Yufei Chen, David Hinks, Nelson R. Vinueza, Antony J. Williams, Harold S. Freeman, Nadia Sultana, Mélaine A. Kuenemann, Denis Fourches, Malgorzata Szymczyk
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Zdroj: Chemical Science
ISSN: 2041-6539
2041-6520
Popis: The Max Weaver Dye Library is presented to the scientific community with a cheminformatics approach to enhance research opportunities with this unique collection of ∼98 000 vials of custom-made dyes.
We present the Max Weaver Dye Library, a collection of ∼98 000 vials of custom-made and largely sparingly water-soluble dyes. Two years ago, the Eastman Chemical Company donated the library to North Carolina State University. This unique collection of chemicals, housed in the College of Textiles, also includes tens of thousands of fabric samples dyed using some of the library's compounds. Although the collection lies at the core of hundreds of patented inventions, the overwhelming majority of this chemical treasure trove has never been published or shared outside of a small group of scientists. Thus, the goal of this donation was to make this chemical collection, and associated data, available to interested parties in the research community. To date, we have digitized a subset of 2700 dyes which allowed us to start the constitutional and structural analysis of the collection using cheminformatics approaches. Herein, we open the discussion regarding the research opportunities offered by this unique library.
Databáze: OpenAIRE