Embracing oddities

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When new chemistry looks like alchemy or witchcraft, it’s worth taking notice

I will freely admit that it’s been a while since I learned organic chemistry for the first time, and I’m also willing to concede that this interval is growing ever larger. I think for any of us that learn such a body of knowledge, we think of our original training as the baseline, the standard, with everything coming later fitting in as some degree of new-fangled stuff.