Welcome To Organic Chemistry: Where Nightmares Come True

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Welcome To Organic Chemistry: Where Nightmares Come True

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Welcome to the fever dream that is organic chemistry! This meme perfectly captures the existential crisis of every o-chem student. From "cool shapes" (cycloalkanes that haunt your dreams) to "alcohol recipes" (where water + ethene somehow equals your weekend plans), this is chemistry at its most unhinged.

The "100%+ yields" bit is pure fantasy—like claiming you've discovered a perpetual motion machine but for molecules. Then there's the Heck reaction labeled as "oh Heck what's this?!?!?!?!" which is exactly what you'll scream during your final exam.

And let's not forget the Breaking Bad reference with "Bad bois" next to actual chloroform—because nothing says "I understand chemistry" like knowing how to make both legal compounds and... questionable ones.

Kekulé (who dreamed up benzene's structure after hallucinating a snake eating its tail) would be proud of this beautiful chemical chaos. Or he'd prescribe everyone lithium. Hard to say.

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