Comments on: How Reactions Are Like Music https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/05/31/reactions-are-like-music/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/05/31/reactions-are-like-music/#comment-579520 Fri, 24 Apr 2020 01:27:16 +0000 http://masterorganicchemistry.wordpress.com/?p=441#comment-579520 In reply to Forrest.

Oh dear. Thank you!

]]> By: Forrest https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/05/31/reactions-are-like-music/#comment-579505 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:27:57 +0000 http://masterorganicchemistry.wordpress.com/?p=441#comment-579505 Quick note, as a musician there’s 12 major and 12 minor chords. You were close, but halved them!

]]> By: Lionheart https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/05/31/reactions-are-like-music/#comment-15933 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:23:25 +0000 http://masterorganicchemistry.wordpress.com/?p=441#comment-15933 Professor,

This site is fucking fantastic. Pardon the language, but I too wish I had this site when I took O-chem. I took a look around and you really broke it down! We must get this to the masses!

I’m not taking any ochem now, but you got me jazzed thinking about it. I shall return.

Thanks
SLC

]]> By: James https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/05/31/reactions-are-like-music/#comment-477 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:41:54 +0000 http://masterorganicchemistry.wordpress.com/?p=441#comment-477 Not being musical, I had to look up “passacaglia”. Youtube has one by Bach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQxrdOk8Us
I hear what you mean! it starts simple, and gradually becomes wonderfully rich.

If it’s any consolation, I got your earlier blues analogy though.

]]> By: luysii https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/05/31/reactions-are-like-music/#comment-476 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:50:20 +0000 http://masterorganicchemistry.wordpress.com/?p=441#comment-476 In a (to be published) post about Clayden’s book, exulting in the way the text builds and builds on a few reactions. I said

p. 759 — The chemistry keeps getting better and better as old rections are combined in new ways. The musical analogy wouldn’t be a symphony but rather a passacaglia in which the base line is constant, but the improvisations on top get progressively more complicated. Bach wrote a great passacaglia for the organ.

Luysii

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