tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010505890506526002.post7008025119476354373..comments2024-03-28T07:04:52.697-04:00Comments on Just Like Cooking: Coloring Book Chemistry, Part 4See Arr Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09464185815368499346noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010505890506526002.post-27186469442510866672012-08-10T14:18:24.795-04:002012-08-10T14:18:24.795-04:00I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, sadly...I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, sadly...noSee Arr Ohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09464185815368499346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010505890506526002.post-44647388173834088102012-08-10T13:58:33.329-04:002012-08-10T13:58:33.329-04:00Are you...really?Are you...really?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010505890506526002.post-82760903295068334082012-08-10T09:43:01.403-04:002012-08-10T09:43:01.403-04:00Others have caught on, damn it. The one thing that...Others have caught on, damn it. The one thing that was mine.Nicolaouhttp://www.scripps.edu/nicolaou/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010505890506526002.post-8789284353415346962012-08-10T06:02:06.386-04:002012-08-10T06:02:06.386-04:00the first commentator appears to be of the opinion...the first commentator appears to be of the opinion that deliberately obscuring information from your readers is a good strategy for writing scientific papers... whilst this conviction seems widely held I think it is unhelpful. useful (i.e. meaningful) colouring is great. Not sure colouring rings in falls into that category.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010505890506526002.post-49687087938369098302012-08-10T04:10:33.897-04:002012-08-10T04:10:33.897-04:00Chemistry is surely about the positions and transf...Chemistry is surely about the positions and transformations of atoms and their bonds, not the spaces between them. The Roulland structure does not give clear information about transformations, while Rao structure gives an indication to the disconnections, which is far more useful. So I would say the Rao structure is a good use of colour, while slightly kaleidoscopic.<br /><br />If (as commented above) you want to challenge yourself and do the disconnections yourself you can run it through a filter or print it in b&w pretty quickly, but having the cheat sheet available aids the common or skimming reader.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010505890506526002.post-13701230700406874092012-08-10T01:33:06.220-04:002012-08-10T01:33:06.220-04:00Definitely gets under my skin even for complicated...Definitely gets under my skin even for complicated transformations. The best part of running across an obsure transformation or interesting natural product is trying to figure where the disconnections are and where starting materials end up in the final product. There is nothing more awseome than an a beautifully drawn natural product in plain black! Echinopine B is an awesome looking structure as a more recent example.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com