Animated alchemy - ACS Publications - American Chemical Society

Cartoon: "The configuration of C'6 in 3 is unimportant in the present context as this carbon will eventually surrender its asymmetry"...
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Paul R. Jones and

Brian Coppola University of New Hampshire

Animated klchemy is a series of cartoons parodying the practice, common in chemical and other professional literature, of imparting human or living qualities to the inanimate. The captions accompanying each esrtoon are direct quotations from chemical literature SOUIC~S.

96 1 Journal of Chemical Education

"The configuration of C'6 in 3 is unimportant in t h e present context as this carbon will eventually surrender its asymmetry."