Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals

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For the manual of style on chemical compounds, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Chemistry § Compounds.

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WikiProject Chemicals is a daughter WikiProject of the WikiProject on Chemistry. It concerns writing and improving articles about chemical compounds in Wikipedia. So far, more than one hundred members of Wikipedia have signed up to participate in WikiProject Chemicals.

A worklist of representative chemical compounds has been finalized. Progress on the articles in this list is monitored by participants. Also, templates for Lists of Properties for the compounds have been standardized, as has formatting and naming articles on chemical compounds. Presentation of chemical structures should also be standardized (to some extent). This WikiProject also serves as a forum on how best to present chemicals information and proceed with work on chemicals in Wikipedia.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and look at the worklist. To join, simply list yourself at #Participants by adding your name (and table format) to the section. If you would like to request a new chemistry-related article, please be referred to the WikiProject Chemistry requested articles list.

Scope

This WikiProject aims to provide high-quality, standardized articles in Wikipedia for all important chemicals, similar to the Merck Index. This comprises all organic and inorganic compounds, elements, reagents, commodities, pharmaceuticals, pollutants, and other large-scale and small-scale chemicals of interest. Additional focus is given to the selected articles about approx 400 representative chemicals, on the target worklist.

Other chemistry subjects, including chemical groups, ions, methodology of analysis, production, reactions, etc., are included in the Chemistry WikiProject, or in its other daughter wikiproject.

Assessment

The primary aim of the Chemicals wikiproject is quality improvement of articles about chemicals. Within the wikiproject, these articles are quality classified for chemical completeness (Class) and the relevance of the chemical compound to general chemistry, according to the Wikiproject's Assessment Scheme.

Although the Wikiproject does acknowledge the Wikipedia status of Featured Article (FA) and Good Article (GA), these are generic qualifications only, with no specific attention for chemical completeness, and as such are not listed in our Classes.

Access the WP:Chemicals table, log and article listing

Chemicals articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 2 4 2 10 FL 1 1 A 1 3 4 8 GA 1 9 16 8 34 B 20 129 261 178 1 589 C 4 47 195 610 16 872 Start 124 1,067 3,244 1 207 4,643 Stub 1 563 7,750 2 1,009 9,325 List 430 7 559 996 Disambig 20 74 94 Template 2 483 485 NA 4 2,450 2,454 Other 5 5 Assessed 28 315 2,110 12,249 3,022 1,792 19,516 Unassessed 1,500 1,500 Total 28 315 2,110 12,249 3,022 3,292 21,016 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 84,570 Ω = 5.46

WPChem worklist pages by quality Quality Total FA 3 A 9 GA 8 B 183 C 46 Start 141 Stub 14 NA 1 Assessed 405 Total 405

Featured articles 10 Featured lists 1 Good articles 38

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Chemistry.

Descendant WikiProjects

A descendant of this WikiProject is WikiProject Polymers.

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements.

Participants

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Chemicals

Userbox WPChem

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~K	Talk
AbuAmir	Talk	Biochemicals.
Aeron Valderrama	Talk	Biochemistry
Acechem	Talk	Pyrotechnics, nitrogen compounds, explosive compounds, esters, chemical intermediates, chemical structures, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, etc.
Alpo666	Talk	Organic Chemistry
Ambix	Talk	Chemiluminescence Photochromism Pyrotechnics
Aslalio	Talk
A. Ts. Galenitis	Talk	Inorganic Chemistry, Main Group Chemistry
AvishekDas123	Talk	Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Biochemistry
Axiosaurus	Talk	Main group chemistry
Anner van Hardenbroek	Talk	Biochemistry, Organic chemistry, Quantum chemistry
Lenary	Talk
Ben Mills	Talk	Diagrams, structural formulae, 3D molecular models, chemical education, organic and inorganic chemistry
benzenec	Talk	Pharmacognosy, Natural Products, Organic Chemistry, Pharmacology, Medicinal Chemistry, Phytochemistry
bfesser	Talk	pH Indicators, Aspirin Derivatives, Dyes, Organic Synthesis
Biochemlife	Talk	biochemistry
BorisTM	Talk	Article layout, Categories, Infoboxes, Structure images, Templates
B'Rat Ud	Talk	Industrial chemistry,Analytical chemistry, W&WW treatment, Environmental chemistry, Chemical safety.
Cacycle	Talk	Chemical structures, Neuropharmacology, Psychoactive compounds, Odorants and aroma compounds, Basic topics and compounds
CanadianPeninsula	Talk	Organic chemistry
Chris Roberts	Talk	Medicinal chemistry, Organic chemistry, Neurochemistry
Chemicalinterest	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, Analytical chemistry, Amateur chemistry, ask me if you want help on a project
Chem_tom	Talk	Inorganic chemistry
Antony Williams	Talk	Organic chemistry, InChI, ChemSpider, NMR, Nomenclature, Cheminformatics, Structure Drawing and Representation
Colonel Buckshot	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, Electrochemistry, Metallurgy
CrazyChemGuy	Talk
Crl620	Talk	Organic synthesis, NMR, structures
Daniel Quinlan	Talk
DaPeerd	Talk	Amateur chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
Dcirovic	Talk	Drug Design, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry
Deryck Chan (admin)	Talk
DePiep	Talk	Template maintenance ({{Chembox}}, {{Infobox drug}})
Dirk Beetstra (admin)	Talk	Organometallic chemistry, Organic chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry
Csamurai92	Talk	Physical chemistry, organic chemistry.
DeadFire999	Talk	Organic chemistry, Electrochemistry
DMacks (admin)	Talk	Organic chemistry, some Organometallic chemistry, misc other Chemistry, chemical structures on commons
Dogposter	Talk	all chemical compounds
Double sharp	Talk	Radiochemistry
ebe123	Talk
EdChem	Talk	Most chemistry, particularly general, organic, and organometallic chemistry
Edgar181 (admin)	Talk	Medicinal chemistry, natural organic compounds
Eolaíocht	Talk	Inorganic Chemistry and Crystallography
Ephemeronium	Talk	Molecular graphics, ball-and-stick and space-filling models. Will take requests.
Explodo-nerd	Talk	I love science and mathematics, particularly chemistry. Explosives are awesome!
Flobor	Talk	Organic compounds, organometallic compounds and metal coordination compounds
Frederick Chiu	Talk	Inorganic Chemistry. Adding basic properties of chemicals
Freywa	Talk	Organic chemistry
Gagman385	Talk	Analytical Chemistry, Cosmochemistry
Gerard Meijssen	Talk	Interested because much of the chemical vocabulary may end up in WiktionaryZ
GGTiger	Talk	Heterocyclics, agrochemicals, chemical information, and history of chemistry
Gino Graziano	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, Nuclear chemistry, Organic chemistry
Graeme Bartlett	Talk	Gases, inorganic chemicals, chembox ids, mixed anion compounds, compound family list articles
GRALISTAIR	Talk	Amines, epoxies, isocyanates, polyols, polyurethanes, paints, coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers, polymers, water, recycled materials
Gumbacious	Talk	Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Organic Chemistry, Bioremediation
Harald Stone	Talk	Computational Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
Henry Padleckas	Talk	Various including Organic chemistry, Chemical engineering, and Polymers; Non-chemistry contributions also.
IdiotsOpposite	Talk	Organic Chemistry, particularly in the area of organic chemical synthesis.
J G Campbell	Talk	Biology, Biochemistry, stuff that explodes; presently flailing away at Retinal
J Hill	Talk	Inorganic chemistry
JaeSharp	Talk	Various general interests, format and type checking
JaGa	Talk	Organic chemistry, Structure drawing
Jason McIntosh	Talk
Jeremiah	Talk	Organic synthesis, Supramolecular chemistry, Environmental chemistry
Joanne Slatter	Talk
John Roberts	Talk	Organic chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Fuel gases, Sulfur chemicals
Kpgjhpjm	Talk	Inorganic chemistry
Kpstewart	Talk	Organic chemistry, biochemistry, neurochemistry
Leiem	Talk	Inorganic chemistry
Leyo	Talk	Environmental chemistry
Manderson198	Talk	Organic Chemistry, reaction mechanisms, synthesis
Martin Walker	Talk	Also known as Walkerma. Organic synthesis, article assessment
Marshmellis	Talk	Only completed first year uni chemistry, limited knowledge but keen interest
masterleggie	Talk	Like physical chemistry but have limited knowledge on organic and inorganic.
MDaxo	Talk	Organic chemistry
Mike Turnbull	Talk	Organic chemistry, pesticides, chemical databases
Mfernflower	Talk	Drug design and organic-metal complexes
Microswitch	Talk	Computer molecule models
Mmagdalene722	Talk	Pesticides
Mothball	Talk	Polymer chemistry, emphasis on poly(ester)s, self-assembly and architecture. More than happy to sort out any other chemistry topics I can help with or stumble across.
Mets501 (admin)	Talk	Everything related to chemistry!
Mysteriumen	Talk
Mutinus	Talk
Nate1481	Talk
NatePhysics	Talk
Nevermore78	Talk	Biochemistry, structures and formulae
Nick C	Talk
Nihiltres	Talk
niklo_sv	Talk	Organic chemistry and compounds
Nitaro02	Talk	Organic chemistry, physical chemistry, computational chemistry
Nitin Viswanathan	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, chemical formulae
NotAnonymous0	Talk
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OrganoMetallurgy	Talk	Organic, inorganic, intermetallic, cluster, metalorganic and organometallic compounds and chemistry among other things. Really, just about anything involving things made of atoms.
Owllord97	Talk	Chemical compounds found outside of Earth and synthetic compounds
Palaxzorodice--YH	Talk	Perodic Table, Unknown Chemical
Pdcook	Talk	Biochemistry; mechanistic and structural enzymology
Pelirojopajaro	Talk	Organic chemistry, biochemistry, reaction mechanisms
Peryeat	Talk	Chemoinformatics, Wiswesser Line Notation, Unique_Ingredient_Identifier
Physchim62 (admin)	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, chemical safety, analytical chemistry
Plasmic Physics	Talk	Organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, nomenclature, chembox insertion & maintenance (on hold)
Polonium	Talk
Quantockgoblin	Talk	Organic, physical-organic, reactive intermediates (esp. carbenes/stable carbenes), asymmetric catalysis. Lab techniques (esp. Air-sensitive handling). I can draw chemical apparatus, I may even take requests.
Raymond Ko	Talk
RedWasp	Talk
Riana	Talk	My knowledge is probably not specific or advanced enough to contribute significantly (I'm only in first year), but I enjoy improving existing articles. I also participate in the Spoken WikiProject, currently recording Acetic acid.
Rebelinabox	Talk
Rifleman_82 (admin)	Talk	Lab technique, organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry. Enjoy drawing structures. Can drop me a note if you need one done at my talk page.
Rjeng2000	Talk	Random Chemicals
Robert Skyhawk	Talk
Ronhjones	Talk	Safety & Devopment chemist. Mainly organic chemistry. Happy to draw structures and convert to svg, also SMILES. Can also get Beilstein numbers if wanted.
Silverweed	Talk	Organic chemistry, food chemistry/molecular gastronomy, Combretastatin.
Shawn Teo	Talk
Robert Shimmin	Talk
Rune Welsh (admin)	Talk	You can request structures and SMILES notations in my talk page
Rollie	Talk	Chemistry Undergrad. Keen at drawing structures and mechanisms
Ryan Jones	Talk	Inorganic Chemistry, structure and reactions of metals.
Schuyler Thompson	Talk
Sbrools	Talk	3d models, Organic, Inorganic, SMILES and chemical information.
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Science_Man_Guy	Talk	Organic Chemistry, Medication
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Shane Di Dona	Talk
Shoy	Talk	Organic and inorganic chemistry, polymers. Chemical engineer by trade.
sinrh0816	Talk
Smolamj	Talk	Organic and Biochemistry, structures. I can generate 2D and 3D structures, just inquire at the talk page.
Socksysquirrel	Talk	Organic chemistry and mechanisms, natural products, inorganic and industrial chemistry.
Steviedpeele	Talk	Organic synthesis and mechanisms, plant Biochemistry
Stieltjes	Talk	Industrial chemicals
St3vo	Talk	Medicinal chemistry, Neurochemistry, Biochemistry/Biosynthesis, structure drawings
Taycar	Talk
TCO	Talk	solid state
Tea with toast	Talk	Organic and Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Neurochemistry
That Kiwi Guy	Talk	Misc 3D models
The_chemistds	Talk	Organic chemistry, compounds, chemical structures, radical chemistry
ThinkOutsideTheTesseract	Talk
Tim Starling	Talk
Tim32	Talk	Organic and organic mathematical chemistry (computer chemistry)
Unbinilium-322 Dibromide	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, Nuclear chemistry, Periodic table
USEPA James	Talk	Pesticides that are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Usfgrad2008	Talk	Bioinorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Inorganic
UtopianPoyzin	Talk	Ionic compounds, filling red links, those types of edits.
WhittleMario	Talk	Inorganic compounds, explosives, and basically anything you wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot pole for fear of becoming wallpaper.
Wilhelm von Hindenburger	Talk	Organic chemicals, especially the complicated ones. I can make SMILES strings too.
Wim van Dorst	Talk	Chemically I'm into chlor-alkali, such as hydrochloric acid, and worklist
WildCation	Talk	Fixing stereochemistry in chemical structuress and in SMILES strings and InChIs, as well as anything to do with conservation science and archaeometry
Xeno Neon	Talk
Xenomancer	Talk
Yilloslime	Talk	Organometallics, Pesticides, Toxicology
Yopure	Talk	Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Nuclear Chemistry
Zaryn	Talk
Christian75	Talk	Inorganic and organic chemistry
pankajsancheti	Talk	nanomedicine, inorganic chemistry, alumina, mesoporous compounds, biodiesel,etc.
Ckalnmals	Talk	Organic chemistry
AnonymousDDoS	Talk	Organic chemistry, general article cleanup and improvement
Ranbow Shifter	Talk	Periodic Table and Salts
TatanyaGolding	Talk
Galobtter	Talk
GrahamCracker325	Talk
sleepychemist	Talk	Inorganic chemistry, and cyanine
102% Yield	Talk

Discussion forums

Several streams of discussion are on-going, among others:

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals, recommended for everything
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry, about the WikiProject as a project
• Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox, about the infoboxes specifically
• Some users' talk pages (difficult to find)

Activities in progress

Worklist to ChemStart level as a minimum

The worklist of the Chemicals WikiProject is undergoing continuous updates, to be brought in line with the goals as presented above. Please assist in adding, completing, and otherwise improving it. Work is now in progress to actually update the listed compounds, all to a minimum of {{chem Start}} level.

Worklist to A-Class level

Additionally, not necessarily sequentially, to the above target, all articles on the worklist be enhanced to {{chem A-Class}} level.

Activities finalized

Templates

The templates of the overall Chemistry Wikiproject will be used. Additionally:

• An {{Amino acids}} navigational box for amino acid articles has also been defined.
• Two stub templates, viz., {{Organic-compound-stub}} and {{Inorganic-compound-stub}} have been defined and implemented on all chemical compound pages which are still stubs.
• a Userbox {{User WPChem}} has been defined to show your support of the Chemicals wikiproject
• A wikiproject template {{chemicals}} with options: core, class, and importance
• For common reference sources such as Organic Syntheses, there are citations templates listed at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(chemistry)/References_and_external_links.

Chemical Infoboxes

Additionally chemical infoboxes have been agreed on as guideline, and are available as templates. For this a {{chemical datatable header}} specific table template has been defined. Two infobox formats have been defined, {{chembox}} and {{Infobox drug}}.

List of lists

The huge list of compounds was recently split into three smaller related lists: list of inorganic compounds, list of organic compounds, and list of biomolecules. The editing work associated with this is now complete.

Style guide

Manual of Style/Chemistry is live.

References

For filling out the chembox templates, the project has made available a useful data book of gas densities, viscosities and solubility products. Other tables may be added in the future.

• Data book of the Wikiproject

There are many other general reference lists available in Wikipedia for chemicals. These include:

• List of inorganic compounds, for well-known inorganic compounds, including organometallics
• List of organic compounds, for well-known organic compounds, also including organometallics
• List of biomolecules
• Former list of compounds, including all chemical compounds in Wikipedia, now a disambiguation page only
• Inorganic compounds by element, same data, but other order
• Dictionary of chemical formulas, to find a name from a formula
• List of particles
• Polyatomic ions, listing the common ones
• List of alchemical substances
• Solubility table, table of solubilities of inorganic substances with changing temperature
• List of gases

For elements, similar lists are available for the Elements WikiProject (to be moved there in future):

• Periodic table, (recommended reading)
• List of elements by name
• List of elements by symbol
• List of elements by atomic number

and several others, ordered differently

For minerals, similar lists are available for the Rocks and minerals WikiProject (to be moved in the future):

• List of minerals

Articlebot alerts

Articles for deletion

• 31 Mar 2021 – GSK-789,472 (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Rhythdybiau (t · c) was closed as delete by Sandstein (t · c) on 08 Apr 2021; see discussion (6 participants)
• 10 Mar 2021 – Lithium gold boride (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed as delete by Daniel (t · c) on 17 Mar 2021; see discussion (3 participants)
• 18 Feb 2021 – Beryllium chlorate (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed as delete by Eddie891 (t · c) on 26 Feb 2021; see discussion (10 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 08 Feb 2021 – Beryllium chlorate (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Graeme Bartlett (t · c) was deproded by Andrew Davidson (t · c) on 14 Feb 2021

Categories for discussion

• 07 Mar 2021 – Category:Periodinanes (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Templates for discussion

• 14 Apr 2021 – Template:Amino alcohols (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Project Osprey (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 30 Apr 2021 – Vinyl iodide (talk · edit · hist) →Vinyl iodide functional group was RfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Apr 2021 – Tyrium (talk · edit · hist) →Neodymium was RfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Apr 2021 – Fent (talk · edit · hist) →Fentanyl was RfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion

Featured article candidates

• undated – Chlorine (talk · edit · hist) FA nominated was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 30 Mar 2021 – Gold(III) chloride (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Keresluna (t · c); start discussion
• 14 Mar 2021 – 1-Pentadecanol (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by JPxG (t · c) was promoted by Femkemilene (t · c), see discussion

Peer reviews

• 23 Apr 2021 – Chlorine (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Keresluna (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Mar 2021 – Galactogen (talk · edit · hist) put up for PR by Matiasleonelgiglio (t · c) was closed

Requested moves

• 05 May 2021 – Compounds of thorium (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Thorium compounds by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
• 05 May 2021 – Compounds of oxygen (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Oxygen compounds by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Mar 2021 – Psicose (talk · edit · hist) move request to Allulose by Fredlesaltique (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 12 Mar 2021 – Gold monoiodide (talk · edit · hist) move request to Gold(I) iodide by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was no consensus; see discussion
• 11 Mar 2021 – Trans-Dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Transplatin by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 10 Mar 2021 – Deicing fluid (talk · edit · hist) move request to Ground deicing of aircraft by Carguychris (t · c) was moved to Ground deicing of aircraft (talk · edit · hist) by Buidhe (t · c) on 17 Mar 2021; see discussion
• 27 Feb 2021 – Kepone (talk · edit · hist) move request to Chlordecone by Leyo (t · c) was moved by Buidhe (t · c) on 06 Mar 2021; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 27 Oct 2019 – Coumarin (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Jan 2017 – Graphite oxide (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 30 Apr 2021 – Draft:Lanthanum hafnate (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LaundryPizza03 (t · c)
• 20 Feb 2021 – Draft:Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Frisie (t · c)
• 22 Mar 2021 – Draft:Binuclear Complex (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Keyvanmoeini (t · c) was declined by GKFX (t · c) on 28 Mar 2021
• 25 Jan 2021 – Draft:Ammonium tetrafluoroborate (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by John B123 (t · c) was moved to Ammonium tetrafluoroborate (talk · edit · hist) by 78.26 (t · c) on 19 Mar 2021
• 07 Dec 2020 – Draft:Phenoxyacetic Acid (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Danidq1 (t · c) was accepted to Phenoxyacetic acid (talk · edit · hist) by Graeme Bartlett (t · c) on 17 Feb 2021
• undated – Draft:Carbonyl Sulfide Hydrolase (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was accepted to Carbonyl sulfide hydrolase (talk · edit · hist) by SmokeyJoe (t · c) on 04 May 2021

Recent changes

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