Ah, to relax on a Monday morning. A brief intro to the model kit and then a description of how organic chemists have gone to "shorthand" skeletal structures in order to simplify the structures. Major points: carbons are rarely shown but are understood to be at intersections of bonds and at the ends of bonds if no other atoms are indicated; hydrogens on carbons are rarely shown but are understood to be the "missing" items if there aren't four bonds shown to a carbon.
The picture is of a golf ball lounging around, just as we were in class today.
Don't forget to work on putting together a structure of the cocaine molecule with your model kits for Wednesday.
And -- bring models; bring clickers.
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