User:Pinguin destept/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(2-Mercaptoethanol)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(We used beta-mercaptoethanol for one of our lab experiments and my interest was peaked to check the other usages of it.)

Evaluate the article
(The way the article begins looks promising. That is, the title is concise and the lead section following is clear to understand and follow. The introduction is good, however, short and underdeveloped. I feel that there could be some additional information added, as the article feels rather short. For instance, there are some parts in the article under the Applications--Reducing proteins that talks about the biological applications of the subject, without sufficient context about what reducing proteins are or their relevance here. There could be room for improvement for that particular section to tie this subject into a larger context. As per the sources used, there seem to be a great amount of sources, peer reviewed and easily verifiable. The article is a part of WikiProject Chemistry, and the talk page shows some activity but nothing after 2009. There too seems to have been raised the some concerns about the information added as a biological application, as well as some potential other applications that have not been further pursued yet. Something particularly good in the article is the structures added, both 2D and 3D added, which are extremely helpful for when someone is trying to find quick information. Thus, the article does provide a good summary of its structure and some of the usages, but could benefit from some extra attention and further development.)