geekish fun

Not the usual blog post from me this time round. I don't usually go for cheap innuendos but the geek inside me did chortle one hell of a lot at this. I hope you all agree and that my previous life as a chemist has not left me blinded by science humour.

Thanks to Improbable Research for this. And yes, this is honestly from a real life, genuine, chemical research paper, published et al by one of the more prestigious journals of the scientific world, Inorganic Chemistry.

>> {trans-1,4-Bis[(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]benzene}(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) Complexes and Their Supramolecular Assemblies with -Cyclodextrin",” Sergio H. Toma, et al., Inorg. Chem., 43 (11), 3521 -3527, 2004.

Dynamic equilibrium is a phenomenon that occurs in reversible reactions: both sets of species (in the above case: i) the two structures on the left and ii) the complex on the right) are always in existence and are continuously rearranging themselves to become either set, i.e. the forward and backward processes are happening at the same time, a moving "dynamic" equilibrium. Looking at Toma's work this would mean that the long, thin (some would say phallic but certainly not me) is continuously moving in and out of the ring structure. This amuses me.

Yes I'm sad I know. But I don't care.

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Today I'm listening to: Bonde Do Role's With Lasers (on Domino). It's good. Trancy CSS like things. Needs a few more listens before I can report back properly tho.