As a physical chemist it just pains me that the procedure is:
Step 1. Twist the poor molecule in to the highest possible energy conformation that it will probably never obtain at temperatures below its decomposition point. . . .
@rangek I tell students the Fischer and Haworth projections are meant (1) to unambiguously reflect the stereochemistry at each chiral center (2) to be convenient for early 20th-century letterpress print shops (3) not to be clear for undergraduate novices
I will never get used to chemfig, it is too much for me. I drew some natural compound in chemfig _by hand_ for my 12th project. Thankfully, I didnt go the organic route; I would have lost all my hair if I had to draw those mechanisms all in chemfig.
![Page produced from Emacs Org mode with LaTeX and the chemfig package. "Drawing Fischer projections with chemfig. It requires climbing a moderate learning curve, but the LaTeX chemfig package is a delight! [Fischer projections of] D-glucose, D-galactose, D-fructose and D-ribose.](https://social.jlamothe.net/photo/preview/640/7057249 "Page produced from Emacs Org mode with LaTeX and the chemfig package. \"Drawing Fischer projections with chemfig. It requires climbing a moderate learning curve, but the LaTeX chemfig package is a delight! [Fischer projections of] D-glucose, D-galactose, D-fructose and D-ribose.")
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But this is super cool.
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As a physical chemist it just pains me that the procedure is:
Step 1. Twist the poor molecule in to the highest possible energy conformation that it will probably never obtain at temperatures below its decomposition point.
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