Computational chemistry Memes

Chemistry grad students bonding over their collective disdain for the HOMO (Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital). Nothing unites a research group faster than complaining about orbital energy calculations at 2 PM after the third failed synthesis of the day. The red-green filter is just what your vision looks like after staring at computational models for 14 straight hours.

The eternal chemistry civil war continues! Physical and computational chemists look at organic synthesis schemes like Gaston looking at Belle's book—completely baffled by the lack of equations. "How can you read this? There's no math!" they scream while clutching their differential equations and quantum models. Meanwhile, organic chemists are happily drawing hexagons and arrows, blissfully unbothered by the absence of calculus. It's like watching someone try to read a novel written in emojis—technically it's the same language, but the dialects couldn't be more different!