Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry/Worklist

This worklist for the Chemistry WikiProject gives structure and organization to all the work to do. It should be aligned with the goals of the WikiProject. Most topics have articles written, but these articles need to be brought to a higher level of quality. For lists and assessments of chemical compounds, see the WP Chemicals worklist.

Fields of chemistry

Fields of chemistry
Write a full page for each of the major sub-disciplines within chemistry. The status is the assessment of their completeness.
Wikipage	Status	Remark
Analytical chemistry	Start	Needs more content
Biochemistry	B-Class	Good, just needs refs & a little work
Chemical industry	Stub	Needs more content
Chemistry	B-Class	Needs refs, a little cleanup/content
Chemistry education	Stub
Electrochemistry	B-Class	Strong on history & principles, need techniques
Environmental chemistry	Start	Very short at present
Geochemistry	Stub
History of chemistry	B-Class	Some missing topics: organic, thermo, green chem, and some sections (elements?) need expansion.
Inorganic chemistry	Start
Materials science	B-Class	Needs more content, sections, refs
Medicinal chemistry	Start
Organic chemistry	B-Class	Needs much more content, refs
Organometallic chemistry	Start
Physical chemistry	Stub
Polymer chemistry	Start
Theoretical chemistry	Start

Chemical engineering could have been included, but this is mainly engineering, and there are some other interdisciplinary areas omitted for similar reasons. Quantum and Computational are covered under Theoretical, as agreed here.

Concepts

Key concepts
Write a full page for 30 important concepts such as solution, from a variety of areas of chemistry. The status is the assessment of their completeness.
Wikipage	Status	Remark
Acid	B-Class	Needs some cleanup and some content. Some long lists need dealing with.
Aromaticity	B-Class	Needs more content, full MO section, refs
Base (chemistry)	Start	More content needed, refs
Chemical bond	B-Class	Nice, close to A-Class, just needs tweaking, more refs.
Chemical element	B-Class	Decent, but needs a bit more, + refs
Chemical equation	B-Class	Rather too much on "how to balance", not enough on what they are.
Chemical equilibrium	Start	Needs more basic description and content, only math at present.
Chemical formula	Start	No line-angle formula, no mention of Laws of Composition.
Catalyst	Start	Could use: Diagrams (lower Ea), organometallic cats, importance in green chemistry, etc.
Chemical kinetics	B-Class	Very nicely done so far, but needs more
Chemical reaction	B-Class	A bit of a hotchpotch, needs rewrite + content
Chemical substance	B-Class	Mainly points to types of substance. Definition also seems iffy
Chemical thermodynamics	Stub	Called Thermochemistry
Colloid	B-Class	Good intro, needs more
Complex (chemistry)	B-Class	Needs more structure & much more content.
Crystal	Start
Crystallography	B-Class	Very nicely done, but no refs
Electronegativity	Start	Basic at present, but lovely table of EN values
Gas	Start	Pretty basic at present
Ion	Start	Needs much more content
IUPAC nomenclature	Start	A great start, then it stops!
Liquid	Start	Pretty embarrassing for such a major concept!
Organic synthesis	B-Class	Could be expanded a bit, some examples added?
Polymer	B-Class	Good solid start, but needs more e.g. living polymers, dendrimers, also pics.
Redox	B-Class	Reads rather like a textbook at times. Also needs more, e.g. mention more on oxidn. # and electrochemistry.
Solid	Stub	As with liquid, embarrassing!
Solution	Start	Good intro, needs more
Solvent	B-Class	A good start, maybe some more P-Chem & pictures
Spectroscopy	B-Class	Very nice, just needs refs (+ more pix?) to be A-Class

Remark: I think a number of these would be better served by a unified article: such as acid and base (but what is the article title?) and solution and solvent (and solute, if it were on the list). Shimmin 19:17, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

I think the approach used with {{Acids and Bases}} could be usefully expanded to many of these topics. See also Featured topics. Physchim62 (talk) 13:39, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Aqueous is basically a stub with a redirect to water. I have replaced it with Ion which seems pretty important, is this OK? Walkerma 18:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I disagree with solution & solvent being unified, I think these are both significant enough and different enough to warrant their own articles. Walkerma 02:21, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Chemists

Chemists
Write a full page for a selection of 40 "giants of chemistry" such as Antoine Lavoisier. 15 of these should be historical figures from early history up to the 18th century, while another 15 should have been active during the 19th century. The last 10 should be from the 20th and 21st century. The status is the assessment of their completeness.
Wikipage	Date	Status	Life	Remark
Jabir ibn Hayyan	Jun 24, 06	B-Class	721-815	Cleanup tag
Roger Bacon		A-Class	1214-1294	Isn't Bacon more a general scientist?
Georg Agricola	Jun 24, 06	Start	1490-1555
Paracelsus	Jun 24, 06	Start	1493-1541
Basilius Valentinus	Jun 24, 06	Start	15th century
Nicolas Flamel	Jun 24, 06	Start	15th century
Andreas Libavius	Jun 24, 06	Stub	1550-1616
Jan Baptist van Helmont	Jun 24, 06	B-Class	1577-1644	sectioning
Robert Boyle	Jun 24, 06	B-Class	1627-1692	Failed GA
Carl Wilhelm Scheele	Jul 2, 06	Start	1742-1786
Antoine Lavoisier	Jul 2, 06	A-Class	1743-1794
Claude Louis Berthollet	Jul 2, 06	Stub	1748-1822
John Dalton	Jul 2, 06	A-Class	1766-1844
Jöns Jakob Berzelius	Jul 2, 06	Start	1779-1848
Michael Faraday	Jul 2, 06	A-Class	1791-1867
Humphry Davy	Jul 2, 06	Start	1778-1829	sectioning, publications, references
Justus von Liebig	Jul 2, 06	A-Class	1803-1873
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen	Jul 2, 06	Start	1811-1899
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz	Jul 2, 06	Start	1829-1896
Dmitri Mendeleyev	Jul 2, 06	B-Class	1834-1907
Adolf von Baeyer	Jul 23, 06	Start	1835-1917
William Perkin	Jul 23, 06	B-Class	1838-1907	More refs needed, article mainly on mauve
Josiah Willard Gibbs	Jul 23, 06	B-Class	1839-1903	More refs
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff	Jul 23, 06	B-Class	1852-1911	rather short
Svante Arrhenius	Jul 23, 06	B-Class	1859-1927	sectioning, rather unbalanced (weak on Eact work)
Walther Nernst		B-Class	1864-1941	rather short
Alfred Werner		Stub	1866-1919
Marie Curie		A-Class	1867-1934
Ernest Rutherford		B-Class	1871-1937	sectioning
Gilbert N. Lewis		B-Class	1875-1946	sectioning, references
Irving Langmuir		A-Class	1881-1957
Linus Pauling		A-Class	1901-1994
Paul Flory		Start	1910-1985
Robert B. Woodward		A-Class	1917-1979
Elias James Corey		Start	1928-

Chemical reactions

Important chemical reactions
Write a full page for 15 major classes of chemical reactions. The status is the assessment of their completeness.
Wikipage	Status	Assessment date	Remark
Alkylation	Start	Mar 31 2006	Mainly petrochem alkylation
Acylation	Start	Mar 31 2006	Needs better writing + more content
Condensation reaction	Start	Mar 31 2006	Needs some examples, figures
Coupling reaction	Start	Mar 31 2006	A bit of a hotch-potch mix now
Electrophilic aromatic substitution	B-Class	Mar 31 2006	Mostly there, needs general cleanup
Electrophilic addition	Start	Mar 31 2006	Basic intro only, needs much more
Free radical addition	Stub	Mar 31 2006	Just one example rxn at present
Free radical substitution	Start	Mar 31 2006	A good start
Nucleophilic substitution	B-Class	Apr 1 2006	Needs some inorganic examples + more unsatd substitn
Hydration reaction	Stub	Apr 1 2006	Very narrow
Hydrolysis	Start	Apr 1 2006	A bit of a hotch-potch
Neutralization	Start	Apr 1 2006	Very basic, needs wikifying
Nucleophilic acyl substitution	Start	Apr 1 2006	Good start, needs more
Nucleophilic addition	Start	Apr 1 2006	A lot of lists, rather an odd collection of topics
Oxidative addition	Start	Apr 1 2006	Nice start
Pericyclic reaction	Start	Apr 1 2006	Very basic coverage of chem

Industrial processes

Industrial processes
Write a full page for 10 important chemical processes used in industry. The status is the assessment of their completeness.
Wikipage	Date	Status	Remark
Blast furnace	20 Mar 2006	B-Class	Does the making of iron/steel deserve its own article?
Chemical vapor deposition	20 Mar 2006	Start	CVD. Good but very brief
Chloralkali process	20 Mar 2006	Stub
Contact process	20 Mar 2006	Start	Needs rewrite
Cracking (chemistry)	20 Mar 2006	B-Class	Petrochemical. Good descriptions of types, needs refs
Hydroformylation	20 Mar 2006	Stub
Haber process	20 Mar 2006	Start
Hall-Heroult process	20 Mar 2006	Start
Saponification	20 Mar 2006	Start	An odd selection of material!
Solvay process	20 Mar 2006	B-Class	No refs

Lab techniques and analytical methods

Lab techniques and analytical methods
Write 20 complete articles on common laboratory techniques (e.g., filtration) and analytical techniques. The status is the assessment of their completeness.
Wikipage	Status	Remark
Centrifuge	Apr 26, 2006	Start	Centrifugation is a stub
Chromatography	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class	V. nice! Just needs some refs to be A-Class
Cyclic voltammetry	Apr 26, 2006	Start
Distillation	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class
Gel electrophoresis	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class
Filtration	Apr 26, 2006	Start
Fractional distillation	Apr 26, 2006	Start
Gas-liquid chromatography	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class
Gravimetric analysis	Apr 26, 2006	Stub
High performance liquid chromatography	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class	Cleanup tag, I did some cleanup
Infrared spectroscopy	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class	Close to A-Class, but needs refs
Laboratory glassware	Aug 25, 2006	B-Class	Close to A-Class, but needs refs
Liquid-liquid extraction	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class	Long but needs cleanup
Mass spectrometry	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class	Long but rather messy, also POV dispute & merge tag
NMR spectroscopy	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class	Needs more on the basics IMHO
Recrystallisation	Apr 26, 2006	Start	Not much more than a stub
Reflux	Apr 26, 2006	Start
Titration	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class	No refs, but getting close to A
UV/VIS spectroscopy	Apr 26, 2006	Start
X-ray crystallography	Apr 26, 2006	B-Class

Should we be considering Differential scanning calorimetry?

Functional groups

Functional groups
Write a full article covering the 12 major organic functional groups using the class name, such as aldehyde. The status is the assessment of their completeness.
Wikipage	Status	Remark
Alcohol	B-Class	Needs some chem, refs
Aldehyde	Start	Pretty basic now
Alkane	B-Class	Close to A, but needs refs
Alkene	B-Class	On its way, but needs more content all round. Is the naming IUPAC or American?
Alkyne	Start
Amide	Start
Amine	Start	A fairly long start, but needs much more
Aromatic compounds		Currently a dab to aromaticity, covered under concepts. Should we remove it from here?
Carboxylic acid	Start	Balanced start, but needs more
Ester	Start
Haloalkane	Start	Heavily weighted towards CFCs et al I think we need a separate alkyl halide page
Ketone	Start	Lots of headings, not a lot of content!

Common ions

Common ions
Write a full article for 12 ions, including the ammonium ion and 11 major anions such as chloride. The status is the assessment of their completeness.
Wikipage	Status	Remark
Acetate	Stub
Ammonium	Start
Carbonate	Stub
Chloride	Stub
Fluoride	Start	Neutrality dispute
Hydroxide	Stub	need to split out material on Hydroxyl radical
Nitrate	Start
Oxide	Start
Phosphate	Start
Silicate	Stub
Sulfide	Start
Sulfate	Start

Physical chemistry topics

Physical chemistry topics
Write a full article for 10 major topics in physical chemistry, principally in chemical kinetics and chemical thermodynamics. The status is the assessment of their completeness.
Wikipage	Status	Remark
Acid dissociation constant	B-Class	needs info on determination of pKa values
Activation energy	Stub	essay without sections
Activated complex	Stub
Avogadro's law	Start	good start, could use some historical discussion
Dipole moment		redirects to Dipole
Equilibrium constant	Start
Enthalpy	B-Class	needs more verbal explanation of all the equations, otherwise OK
Entropy	Start	in a fairly dire state as far as information content is concerned, work in progress
First law of thermodynamics	B-Class
Gas laws	Start	factually inaccurate in several places
Gibbs free energy	B-Class
Hess's law	Stub
Paramagnetism	Start
Photoinduced electron transfer	Stub	A two sentence, unreferenced article.
Rate law	Start
Reaction rate	B-Class
Second law of thermodynamics	Start	PoV dispute (creationism)
Solubility product		See Solubility equilibrium
Standard enthalpy change of formation	Start
Standard enthalpy change of reaction	Stub
Third law of thermodynamics	Stub
Arrhenius' law
Steady state approximation
Transition state
Internal energy
Helmholz free energy
Chemical potential
Activity
Fugacity
Standard molar entropy
Heat capacity
Phase diagram
Clausius-Clapeyron equation
Kinetic theory of gases
Joule-Thomson expansion
Boltzmann distribution
Carnot cycle	A-Class	could be still be improved, but nothing really to argue with
Triple point
Critical point