User talk:CCoil

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Sdrtirs (talk) 02:27, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Your molecular model images

Hi CCoil,

Thanks very much for you recent contributions. I have two suggestions:

1. Avoid duplication

I've noticed that some of the images you've uploaded are extremely similar to ones that already exist. For example your image Image:Nitrobenzene-balls.png is almost identical to one I made 18 months beforehand, Image:Nitrobenzene-3D-balls.png. It'd be a much better use of your time and effort to make images for molecules that do not already have a good one. I suggest using the Commons search box or Mayflower to check that suitable images do not exist before you decide to make a new one.

Here's a table of images that you didn't need to make:

Existing image	Your duplicate
Image:Orthoperiodic-acid-3D-vdW.png	Image:Orthoeriodic-acid-CPK.png
Image:Hypoiodous-acid-3D-vdW.png	Image:Hypoiodous-acid-CPK.png
Image:Periodic-acid-3D-vdW.png	Image:Metaperiodic-acid-CPK.png
Image:Cumene-hydroperoxide-3D-balls.png	Image:Cumene-hydroperoxide-balls.png
Image:Oxalyl-chloride-3D-vdW.png	Image:Oxalyl-chloride-CPK.png
Image:Perchloric-acid-3D-vdW.png	Image:Perchloric-acid-CPK.png
Image:Silicon-tetrachloride-3D-vdW.png	Image:Silicon-tetrachloride-CPK.png
Image:Hydrogen-cyanide-3D-vdW.png	Image:Hydrogen cyanide.png

One image that was worth updating was my image Image:Oxaliplatin-3D-balls.png. Your Image:Oxaliplatin-balls.png is clearer, so this upload was very useful. The images in the table above, though, seem to be almost identical.

2. Make sure your structures are correct

I've made plenty of mistakes myself in this area - often, the structures of molecules or compounds are not what you might expect. A few of your images seem to contain mistakes in structure. For example, your image Image:Silver-tetrafluoroborate-3D-vdW.png is not right. AgBF₄ is not a molecule, it's an ionic crystalline solid, containing tetrahedral [BF₄]⁻ anions and Ag⁺ cations. See this article for details on the structure. The other image that needs fixing is Image:Tetrafluoroboric-acid-3D-vdW.png - see en:Fluoroboric acid - pure HBF₄ is unknown, the acid is just an aqueous solution of [H₃O]⁺ and [BF₄]⁻ ions.

I hope these suggestions are helpful, and I look forward to more of your work. There are so many compounds that exist, and the more high-quality images we have to help people understand them, the better. Your work is really valuable to Commons and the Wikipedias that use it.

See you around,

Cheers

Ben (talk) 11:38, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ben. Thank you for suggestion.

I intend to take two suggestion willingly.　I think that I had to be careful a little more. I intend to give my duplication image a deletion request.　It is the second suggestion next, about the structure of the material, where do you find it? Can I find it in a free site?

I am sorry in a short sentence. It is difficult for me to make an good English sentence.

I support that you make a better image.

See you.

--CCoil (talk) 14:28, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi CCoil,

You may request deletion of some of these images if you wish, but there's nothing wrong with them per se, they just have nearly-identical twins! I just wanted to save you some trouble and direct your talents to where they are most needed.

Don't worry about your English, either, it's fine - I understood what you wrote easily. Your English is much better than my French or German is.

As for structural information, the place to look depends on the type of compound you want to draw. For minerals and simple crystalline inorganic compounds like binary halides and oxides, a good first port of call is The American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database. For discrete molecules try 3DChem.

I personally find some structures directly from papers on X-ray or electron diffraction or rotational (microwave) spectroscopy. You'll need access to journals to get this information, and you'll need to understand the data to convert it into a model, so it might be easier to stick to the websites above.

Good luck

Ben (talk) 19:40, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ben.

Thank you for introducing an interesting site. Thank you for praising it about my English. I want to make a lot more more molecule models.

About a molecule model, may I make a Ball-and-stick model same as the CPK model whom you have already made? I think that the molecule model that I can make decreased recently. Had better I make the molecule model of medical supplies?

Thanks again

--CCoil (talk) 23:46, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ccoil,

You may, of course, make ball-and-stick models of molecules if only a CPK model already exists.

What do you mean about medical supplies? You can make models of any molecules you choose.

Best wishes,

Ben (talk) 19:53, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Image:Hypericin-3D-sticks.png

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, CCoil!

Tip: Add categories to your files

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Here's how:

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BotMultichillT (talk) 05:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

• Image:Boron-trioxide-ring-3D-balls.png is uncategorized since 10 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
• Image:Phenylmercuric-acetate.png is uncategorized since 19 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:41, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
• Image:Thiopental-3D-vdW.png is uncategorized since 24 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:41, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
• Image:Mifepristone-3D-vdW.png is uncategorized since 30 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 20:19, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
• Image:Disulfurous-acid-3D-balls.png is uncategorized since 2 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Pyrosulfuric-acid-3D-balls.png is uncategorized since 2 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Thiosulfuric-acid-3D-balls.png is uncategorized since 2 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Dihydrogen-MO-Diagram.svg is uncategorized since 3 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:43, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Tetraphenylmethane-3D-sticks.png is uncategorized since 5 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Jahn-Teller effect.svg was uncategorized on 6 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:52, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

The factual accuracy of the chemical structure Image:Dichlorobis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II)-3D-sticks.png is disputed

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The factual accuracy of the chemical structure Image:Silver-tetrafluoroborate-3D-vdW.png is disputed

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Can you please state, if you agree with the dispute (and the one below)? If you agree, the image will be deleted. If not, please explain. If it is appropriate, you may upload a new version of the image. --Leyo 13:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC) PS. Thanks for your nice work on Commons.

Because there is similar image which Ben already made, the image of these wrong structure may have you delete it entirely.--CCoil (talk) 05:07, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

The factual accuracy of the chemical structure Image:Tetrafluoroboric-acid-3D-vdW.png is disputed

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Nice work!

Hi CCoil,

I've just seen your recent images of the crystal structures of mercury and zinc halides:

• File:Mercury(II)-iodide-xtal-3D-vdW.png
• File:Mercury(I)-iodide-xtal-3D-vdW.png
• File:Zinc-bromide-xtal-3D-vdW.png
• File:Zinc-chloride-3D-vdW.png
• File:Mercury(II)-chloride-xtal-3D-vdW.png
• File:Mercury(I)-bromide-xtal-3D-vdW.png
• File:Mercury(II)-fluoride-xtal-3D-vdW.png (this one's file name says vdW but it's actually sticks)
• File:Mercury(I)-fluoride-xtal-3D-vdW.png

Very nice! I'm really glad you've found out how to depict the structures of polymeric materials.

Would you be able to add references to these images, such as a link to an article? That would really helpful so people know where the information came from and can check it.

I now do this with my images. For example, I made File:Potassium-tetrachlorogallate-xtal-3D-balls.png using a CIF from Acta Cryst. (2003). E59, i70-i71. I find the references useful if someone thinks one of my images has a mistake - I can check the original document and see if I was right or wrong.

Best wishes,

Ben (talk) 21:25, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much!

This is because you taught me.

I added quotation to each image. Should such a quotation increase it to all images?

I uploaded the image of the File:Mercury(II)-fluoride-xtal-3D-vdW.png again. (File:Mercury(II)-fluoride-xtal-3D-sticks.png)

--CCoil (talk) 09:01, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

That's brilliant. It would be very good to have a reference for each image, so if you're able to provide references, please do so - people really appreciate it. There may also come a time when chemical structure images will require a reference, although this is not the case at present.

You can also make your images shiny by adjusting the lighting settings: http://www.benjamin-mills.com/DS-lighting.png.

Keep up the great contributions!

Ben (talk) 10:46, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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File:Zinc-chloride-3D-vdW.png

Hi CCoil. I like your crystall structure images. Could you additionally draw a ball and stick image of zinc chloride, showing the unit cell? In de.wikipedia, we generally prefer to use images with unit cells (or if appropriate a larger part of the crystal structure; see here). --Leyo 10:17, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

A version (File:Kristallstruktur Zinkchlorid.png) is now available. Sorry for disturbing. --Leyo 13:23, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

File:AuBr.png

Hi CCoil,

I uploaded a version of the P4₂/ncm phase of AuBr today, without realizing you had pictures of what is supposed to be isostructural: AuI. However I do not understand your pics that well and wonder if there is no error in the choice of origin of the space group. There are two choices and if you take the wrong one you get a strange structure.

Greetings

Jcwf (talk) 04:26, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Jcwf.

The original data which I used so that I make an image are [1][2]. Space group of these data is P4₂/ncm, and space group of Z Krist. (1959). 112, 80-87 is P42/ncm, too. Therefore I think that structure of AuBr is different from structure of AuI.--CCoil (talk) 11:33, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi: I downloaded your cif file and put it back into Atoms. It produces the picture that you have uploaded here. Then I changed the space group from P42/ncm:1 to P42/ncm:2, the only difference being a different choice of origin. So, sorry, but your picture is wrong, because then the structure is the same as for P-AuBr, as it should be and is also stated explicitly in Wiel Janssen's ad Gerrit Wiegers' paper. No my name is not on that paper, but it is on the AuCl one because I grew those crystals: I was the undergruadate, Wiel the grad student and Gerrit our mentor at the time

Jcwf (talk) 18:56, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

I have submitted two deletion request for the pictures

Jcwf (talk) 19:15, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

 Info: I added the DRs to Commons:WikiProject Chemistry/Deletion requests. --Leyo 20:02, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for having you give a deletion request. After all the structure of my image was wrong. I'm sorry to have troubled you.--CCoil (talk) 09:10, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Please write this (also) in the deletion request pages. --Leyo 10:32, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

The factual accuracy of the chemical structure Image:Caesium-hydride-unit-cell-3D-vdW.png is disputed

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Perhaps I think that I have uploaded the image by mistake. I will upload the new version of the image by the end of today.

Thank you.--CCoil (talk) 03:28, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

 Done uploaded.--CCoil (talk) 04:41, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

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