Trienes Memes

The chemistry wordplay is absolutely bonding here! This meme plays with the structures of alkenes (compounds with carbon-carbon double bonds). Trienes have three double bonds and are trying their best to be stable, while dienes have only two double bonds and are literally "dying inside" from their reduced conjugation. The zigzag lines represent the actual structural notation chemists use to draw these molecules. Organic chemistry students everywhere are having flashbacks to synthesis problems right now.