{"id":2173,"date":"2014-05-09T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T21:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2014-05-09T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T21:29:08","slug":"organic-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2014\/05\/09\/organic-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Monica Fong &#8211; used with permission<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted in <a title=\"prism\" href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/dept\/student_affairs\/studentmedia\/prism\" target=\"_blank\">OSU PRiSM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You are the center of my world<br \/>\nlike a carbon is the center<br \/>\nof a tetrahedral compound.<br \/>\nIts hybridization is sp<sup>3<\/sup><br \/>\nwhich means noting to you<br \/>\nbut everything to me.<\/p>\n<p>Our relationship just happened<br \/>\njust like an alkyl halide breaking<br \/>\nand forming new bonds with a<br \/>\nnucleophile at the transition state<br \/>\nof an S<sub>n<\/sub>2 reaction.<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s just the slow step,<br \/>\nthe rate-determining step.<br \/>\nIncreasing the concentrations<br \/>\nwill, indeed,<br \/>\nincrease the speed.<\/p>\n<p>But this can only happen<br \/>\nif four different groups are<br \/>\nattached to a carbon center,<br \/>\nonly then is it chiral&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Chiral, chirality, nonsuperimposable mirror images<br \/>\njust like two hands, our two hands,<br \/>\none on top of the other,<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t fit, oh, but it does fit &#8211; perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Monica Fong &#8211; used with permission Originally posted in OSU PRiSM You are the center of my world like a carbon is the center of a tetrahedral compound. Its hybridization is sp3 which means noting to you but everything to me. Our relationship just happened just like an alkyl halide breaking and forming new&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2014\/05\/09\/organic-poetry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}