“Organic chemistry has come a long way from its early days. It might have reached its peak, in a certain sense, around 1972, when Robert Woodward of Harvard and Albert Eschenmoser of the Swiss Institute of Technology synthesized the very complex molecule we know as vitamin B-­12. Ever since, it has been widely accepted that organic chemists can make pretty much any molecule that occurs in nature.” -Prof. David Cordes (PDF).

“Organic chemistry has come a long way from its early days. It might have reached its peak, in a certain sense, around 1972, when Robert Woodward of Harvard and Albert Eschenmoser of the Swiss Institute of Technology synthesized the very complex molecule we know as vitamin B-­12. Ever since, it has been widely accepted that organic chemists can make pretty much any molecule that occurs in nature.” -Prof. David Cordes (PDF).

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    And so many more beautiful beautiful molecules. :)
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