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Weaver’s Historic Accessible Collection of Synthetic Dyes: A Cheminformatics Analysis
Citation:
Kuenemann, M., M. Szymczyk, Y. Chen, N. Sultana, D. Hinks, H. Freeman, A. Williams, D. Fourches, AND N. Vinueza. Weaver’s Historic Accessible Collection of Synthetic Dyes: A Cheminformatics Analysis. Chemical Science. RSC Publishing, Cambridge, Uk, (8):4334-4339, (2017). https://doi.org/10.1039/c7sc00567a
Impact/Purpose:
We present the Max Weaver Dye Library, a collection of ~98,000 vials of custom-made and largely sparingly water-soluble dyes. To date, we have digitized a subset of 2,700 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.
Description:
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 2,700 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.
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DOI: Weaver’s Historic Accessible Collection of Synthetic Dyes: A Cheminformatics Analysis
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7sc00567a