We now have a rhodium archive up that Naf1 has taken time to put together, it iis more complete then the ones hosted at other places, such as erowid, etc. and it will be continually updated to become more and more complete. You can thank Naf1 for this, I have done very little, but I am glad to see it up and hope to help out with it soon.  

For obvious reasons we do not want it indexed so we have it password protected. However, we do want it to be useful for people at The Vespiary, and other like minded places such as WD, SM, etc. So feel free to share it with people who will not lower the signal to noise ratio.

In order to log in and view the material, use this information:

Username: thevespiary
Password: depidyhk

If you have any files that we are missing on the rhodium archive, please let us know. It would be nice to share.

Comments welcome.  

Edit: Oops: http://127.0.0.1/rhodium/

a screen comes up and asks for my username and password, but it wont let me pass into archive. whats up ??.

Click on this http://thevespiary:depidyhk@www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/

Thanks a lot for the contributions! Very much appreciated.

Thanks Doogie!

I think the Hive archive should be the same, the Rhodium archive maybe the same template but the one hosted here is much more complete(working links). You have some real gems in your collection, I will download the synthetikal stuff.

This is neat to be getting all of the files like this organized and easily accessible. Hopefully this will help add some more quality members to the site.

"I bring this up because just a minute ago I read an error and wondered why we cant fix it here. I'm sure others have found errors as well."

We can, I actually asked if anyone found any errors to please note them here and I will fix them ASAP.

"Possible stages of the modification of Rhodium's site hosted here:

1) Do nothing

2) Fix errors

3) Expand existing pages with additional relevant info

4) Add additional pages

And we can organize it a bit more, too."

Fixing errors is a given, a list needs to be compiled somewhere of the errors/deadlinks so I can go through the list and fix them. I have been slowly expanding the archive like this (Methylmans Famous write up);
http://127.0.0.1/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/wacker.benzo-meoh.html

If you scroll right down to the bottom you will see a reference section has been added, with the appropriate literature their to read. Which is;

Synthesis by-products from the Wacker oxidation of safrole in
methanol using r-benzoquinone and palladium chloride
M. Cox a,*, G. Klass b
Forensic Science International 164 (2006) 138–147

Abstract
This paper reports the identification of a number of by-products, which are produced during the Wacker oxidation of safrole to 3,4-
methylenedioxyphenyl-2-propanone (MDP2P) using r-benzoquinone and palladium chloride when methanol is utilised as the solvent. Also
described is the retrieval of these compounds from illicit samples from a clandestine laboratory, which was uncovered in South Australia in
September 2003.

And the paper documents the Methylman oxidation, and the by products produced etc. And actually refers to the method they use as; The procedure of MethylMan and link the methyl man page on rhodium archive in the references. Apart from fixing it and maybe adding things like that, we were not planning to add anything not contained in the original. A new archive of new procedures could be made as you stated, but we would have to change the Rhodium name! The Vespiary archive maybe?

We have kind of started already not with the wiki part which sounds very interesting, but in at least having a full working copy of the rhodium archive (how is was) to work with. Please check this out as 95% of the links work and link back to the original papers;

http://thevespiary:depidyhk@www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/

It is already much more comprehensive than Erowids, as you said none of their links to the original papers work etc. We still have much work to do, but it will get there, I like you wiki idea it already growing on me! If you find something not working let me know and it will be fixed ASAP.

Sounds excellent, also if the articles we had were indexed and entered into a searchable database like RSC, sciencedirect etc it would be great! To do all this would take alot of work though, as entering in the abstarcts and titles of the papers so they could be searched for keywords for example would be excellent. You are completely right about the links also, if you were to copy and paste that reference into google for example, you would probably not get the paper you were after. And trying to track down some of them is hard with that limited info provided, obviously there is no way to browse the S.WACK collection as its archived (you need to download the whole 2gb yeah?).

Now that I have opened my big mouth...

I think I was looking at http://127.0.0.1/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/cocainesynth.buzz.html

Second paragraph under the Cocain section:
"If you can get egconine, then dissolve 8.5 g of it in 100 ml of ethanol and pass (bubble) dry HCl gas through this solution for 30 min. Let cool to room temp and let stand for another 1.5 hours. Gently reflux for 30 min and evaporate in vacuo. Basify the residue oil with NaOH and filter to get 8.4 g of methylecgonine,"

Ester formation from ethanol would be the ethyl ester of ecgonine, which is not leading to cocaine. I think it should be methanol, but someone else let me know. And he misspells ecgonine.

I also think someone should put the clickable nomograph that timecube borrowed from sigma's web site on to the Rhodium nomograph page.