Saturday, February 14, 2009

Impossible figures

I am sure everybody can see that the drawing (a) is an impossible figure. So I expect nobody will draw cubane like this; the correct drawing is (b).

cubane (wrong)
(a)
cubane (right)
(b)

In fact, if you pay attention, you will notice that the chemical databases are full of impossible figures. I just have corrected the drawing in ChEBI entry for codeinone (c). Next release, it will look like (d).

codeinone (wrong)
(c)
codeinone (right)
(d)

1 comment:

Egon Willighagen said...

Hi, interesting looking blog! Saw your comment in Gilleain's blog. Added yours to Chemical blogspace:

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