Gallery – Making Molecules

Out of curiosity, what do professional chemists refer to when they need a quick reference for something like this? Is it all in their heads by that point, or is there special software that they use every day (some sort of knowledge base type thing...?) or how does it all work?<p>As a software dev I think I take it for granted that I can look up anything I need to in a second or two. How does it work for other professions with special knowledge bubbles?

My brief extension course introduction to chem and mol bio gave me an enormous appreciation for chemistry illustrations. <i>Molecular Biology of the Cell</i> is one of the best textbooks ever written.

I find this a little hilarious and probably sorely needed as someone who was handed what the instructor literally referred to as the &quot;art of the clides&quot; (the heading &quot;Chart of the Nuclides&quot; having been cut off via photocopier margins), in what turned out to practically be a graduate-level physics course at a nominally undergraduate institution.

When I was in high school, one of the extracurricular academic competitions was at a local college. I had time to kill and was browsing through the campus bookstore. They had a rack of 8.5x11 laminated &quot;cheat sheets&quot; of chemistry, physics, geometry that these remind me of. They were pretty cheap, and the nerd that I am spent my lunch money on buying a set of these. At first, I wasn&#x27;t even taking classes for the subject matter, but I knew that I would be and I wasn&#x27;t sure if I&#x27;d be back to this store. After taking the appropriate classes, they were very useful.

In the one in the third column of the second row, &quot;Drawing Molecules&quot; [1], the second box shows how to go from a structural representation to a skeletal diagram. The third step of that is to remove all C-H bonds, removing both the H and the bond.<p>But in the example given it retains a C-H bond. Why is that?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static1.squarespace.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;62185f3b81809a6fd03ddbb5&#x2F;t&#x2F;624001a693d6102f09ac2301&#x2F;1648361896212&#x2F;Drawings.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static1.squarespace.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;62185f3b81809a6fd03dd...</a>

Another great one is Compound Interest. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.compoundchem.com&#x2F;infographics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.compoundchem.com&#x2F;infographics&#x2F;</a>

For:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static1.squarespace.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;62185f3b81809a6fd03ddbb5&#x2F;t&#x2F;6232e97176053063d505cfc2&#x2F;1647503729983&#x2F;TLC.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static1.squarespace.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;62185f3b81809a6fd03dd...</a><p>Is there supposed to be a line through some of the center?

I got super confused by the &quot;Page 47&quot; logo. Is it the publisher? Sounds like a pretty poor choice: color me dumb but I did look for page 46 and 48...

I think I actually paid money for similar printed handouts. I think it was for SAT&#x2F;ACT concepts or some college course.<p>How naive I was back then.

Maybe these are beautiful, but whoever made them is blatantly not a professional graphic designer or typographer. From a graphic design POV, it&#x27;s hard to justify rating these higher than 8&#x2F;10.