Enantiomerism – the property of asymmetric molecules that look "the same" but are actually mirror images of each other – is one of the many topics, perhaps the most egregious, that drive organic chemistry students bats###t crazy.
thalidomide
Trust is like a piece of china,
Precious, raw, and rare.
When it’s broken, it can be mended,
But the crack is always there.
Last week, the global news outlets reported a case of a baby boy born in India with two penises and four legs.
In 1954 the German company Chemie Grunenthal first synthesized the drug thalidomide to be used as a sedative that p