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Subject: IS IT POSSIBLE TO SYNTHEZISE MOLECULES VIRTUALLY?

Date: Sat Nov 20 15:25:19 1999
Posted by TANUJ SAPRA
Grade level: grad (science) School: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PA
City: PHILADELPHIA State/Province: PA Country: USA
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 943129519.Ch
Message:

SCIENTISTS ARE TRYING TO BUILD MOLECULES ATOM BY ATOM USING STM, AFM . THIS 
IS THE FIELD OF NANOTECHNOLOGY WHICH STILL USES THE PRINCIPLES OF 
CHEMISTRY, WHICH IS A VERY RANDOM AND THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD SCIENCE 
(ASSUMPTION HOLDS IN CHEMISTRY). WHAT I MEAN TO ASK BY SYNTHEZISING 
MOLECULES VIRTUALLY IS WHETHER WE CAN MAKE A PROGRAM FOR THE SYNTHEZISE OF 
A MOLECULE WITH ALL THE NECESSARY DATA ABOUT THE BOND ENERGIES OF REACTANTS 
AND PRODUCTS. OR CAN THE VIRTUAL REALITY STUFF THAT IS MOSTLY USED IN VIDEO 
GAMES, MEDICAL AND CONSTRUCTION APPLICATIONS CAN BE USED. IMAGINE A 
SCIENTIST WEARING THE GOGGLES LOOKING AT THE MOLECULES AND THE OTHER ATOMS 
AND MOLECULES FLOATING AROUND. HE JUST HAS TO MOVE HIS HANDS, REMOVE THE 
ATOM WHICH HE DOES NOT WANT FROM THE REACTANT AND ATTACH ONE OF THE 
FLOATING ATOMS TO THE INTERMEDIATE. IS THIS POSSIBLE OR IS ANY RESEARCH 
GROUP TRYING TO DO THIS. (I DON'T THINK SO)


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