this site extensively uses two types of multimedia plug-ins for world wide web browsers; a plug-in to display 3D coordinate chemical structures, such as the: Chemscape Chime plug-in, or CS Chem3D plug-in or even external chemical viewers such as MSI's WebLab Pro or RasMol. Also required is a VRML plug-in to display the extended polyhedra arrays.

these page have won two HMS Beagle's three star awards as indispensable web pages (July 1998) and these pages were their "Web Pick of the Day". Additionally, they were highlighted in Science Magazine's Netwatch and also have been featured in the New Scientist and by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

you can find more chemistry based multimedia at the University of Oxford's Chemistry IT Centre and the Virtual Laboratory.

other "Molecules of the Month" are at the University of Bristol and at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London