Clowning Around With Carbon Chains

Chemistry class but make it FABULOUS! 🧪✨ This meme is sneakily teaching you the Grignard reaction while turning you into a chemical clown! When you mix alkyl bromide with magnesium metal, you get a Grignard reagent (that's the clown makeup starting). Then when you attack an epoxide (that triangle with the O), BAM! You've just extended your carbon chain by two atoms! Organic chemistry professors everywhere are secretly giggling at how they've tricked students into learning reaction mechanisms through meme makeup tutorials. The transformation from boring chemist to carbon-chain-building party clown is the lab glow-up we never knew we needed!