User:OMCV

About me
My PhD is in inorganic chemistry. My interest and experience is in nonaqueous electrochemistry, air-free synthesis, inorganic thermodynamics, and energy related chemistry/issues.

Interest in Wikipedia
I was skeptical of Wikipedia's utility to chemists until I noticed a number of well written and accurate entries on industrially practiced chemistry and obscure but useful topics such as the Benzoin condensation. Being able to find concise summaries of information just outside my specialization is priceless. In return I thought I might fill some holes in my specialization. Many of my pages are on subjects I once searched for and was disappointed not to find. I've started or significantly contributed to the pages which follow.

More recently I've taken an interest in documenting historic climbing routes. Hopefully I will also have an opportunity to clean up some of the general climbing articles.

Contributions
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Chemistry
Bifunctional catalyst, Bordwell thermodynamic cycle, Bulk electrolysis, Chemical bonding model, Cyclic voltammetry, Dropping mercury electrode, Electroanalytical method, Electrolysis of water Electrochemical reaction mechanism, Electronic effects, Enzyme mimic‎, Faraday efficiency, Hanging mercury drop electrode, Hydrodynamic technique, Hydrogenase mimic, Internal combustion engine, Laboratory glassware, Ligand, Metal ligand multiple bond‎, NMR spectra database, Overpotential, Photoinduced electron transfer, Proton coupled electron transfer, Reference electrode, Rotating disk electrode, Rotating ring-disk electrode, Schlenk flask, Shilov system, Steric effects, Transition metal hydride, Ultramicroelectrode, Voltammetry.

Climbing
Bear's Reach (Lover's Leap), Castleton Tower, Casual Route (Longs Peak), Climbing style, Durrance Route (Devils Tower), East Face (Mount Whitney), Fifty Classic Climbs of North America, Finger of Fate (Fisher Towers), Fisher Towers, Kor-Ingalls Route (Castleton Tower), Lost Arrow Spire Tip, ‎Lover's Leap (Tahoe, CA), ‎Open Book (Tahquitz), Roped solo climbing, ‎Simul climbing, Salathé Wall (El Capitan), South Face (Charlotte Dome), Speed climbing, Stolen Chimney (Fisher Towers), The Nose (El Capitan), Traveler Buttress (Lover's Leap)

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Research and Citation
I've never enjoyed citing material and I was always annoyed that I didn't have a good method to collect and search the PDFs I use in research. Zotero solved both those problems. Zotero will still need some improvement before I would use it for a review article but for everything else its the best reference software out there. In my two most recent papers I've used either the current version of EndNote X2 or the current version of Zotero 1.5-2.0 and Zotero was the superior product hands down. Zotero is also convenient for citing material on Wikipedia and I recommend it to all editors regardless of subject matter.