Periodic Table As Seen By Organic Chemists. [View all]

[NNadir]

I saw this on Linkedin, posted by a very senior guy at Lilly.

I will confess to having been an organic chemist, although at this point in my career, near the end, I'm more an analytical chemist.

We're really not entirely this shallow when it comes to the chemistry of the elements - samarium does some cool organic chemistry, as does, for that matter, cerium (Who cares?) - but I found it hilarious overall.

I recall a lecture by Barry Trost, a very famous organic chemist, where he had a periodic table, "The Periodic Table According to Trost," which featured palladium in much the same way as carbon is depicted here. (Catalysts I use to do real chemistry.)

Loved "fake elements made up by commies" since the second heaviest of them is named for Tennessee. I never thought of Tennessee as a communist country. (106 is named for the great American Chemist, Glenn Seaborg.)