The Elements Of Organic Chemistry, Summarized

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The Elements Of Organic Chemistry, Summarized

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The most accurate representation of organic chemistry I've ever seen. Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen are having a pool party up top (the cool kids of organic chem), while fluorine and sulfur at least got invited but are clearly struggling to fit in. Meanwhile, the rest of the periodic table is just... dead and forgotten at the bottom of the ocean.

Anyone who's survived an organic chemistry class knows this hierarchy all too well. You spend 95% of your time drawing carbon chains with the occasional oxygen, nitrogen, or hydrogen thrown in, then suddenly your professor introduces a fluorine or sulfur and everyone panics. The rest of the elements? They might as well be mythical creatures for all the attention they get.

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