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Yesterday I referred to the book Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, wherein one of the characters (Prof. Gottlieb) makes disparaging remarks about organic chemistry. I have duplicated the full passage from Chapter 2 at the bottom of this post. Enjoy! (And here’s a … finish reading Organic chemistry! Puzzle chemistry!

Today’s class presented two formalisms that organic chemists use for connecting rates, rate constants, and the shapes of PE surfaces: Arrhenius equation (old-school but still useful and still widely used; go here for more background on collisions & kinetics) transition … finish reading Diffusion-controlled rate constants are the MAX