Life Lessons from Organic Chemistry That???ll Make You Smile (or Cringe)

Lesson 1: To give, first be a source

In the first year of my PhD, I became fascinated by arrow-pushing mechanisms.

These mechanisms are how organic chemists track the movements of electrons in a chemical reaction.

Think of this as a one-way dance: Arrows move from regions of high electron density (source) to regions of low electron density (sink).

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