Issue 6, 2017

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

Abstract

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.

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

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
07 Feb 2017
Accepted
05 Apr 2017
First published
07 Apr 2017
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Chem. Sci., 2017,8, 4334-4339

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

M. A. Kuenemann, M. Szymczyk, Y. Chen, N. Sultana, D. Hinks, H. S. Freeman, A. J. Williams, D. Fourches and N. R. Vinueza, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 4334 DOI: 10.1039/C7SC00567A

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