Molecular Origami
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Introduction.- Part I: Basic Shapes, Basic Ideas.- Part II: Advanced Shapes.- Part III: Beyond Octahedra.- Part IV: More Complex Molecules and Ions.- Part V: Network Solids.- Part VI: One and Two-Dimensional Shapes.- Discussion of Questions in Part I.- Sources and Methods.- Index.

About the Author

Robert Hanson is a Professor of Chemistry at St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota, where he has been teaching since 1986. Trained as an organic chemist with Gilbert Stork at Columbia University, he shares a patent with 2001 Nobel Prize winner K.Barry Sharpless for the asymmetric epoxidation of allylic alcohols. His interest in thermodynamics goes back to early training at the California Institute of Technology, from which he got a B.S. degree in 1979. He spends his occasional moments of free time playing the violin in a community orchestra, piloting gliders, and designing new Sudoku strategies.

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"Each pattern comes complete with chemistry questions to set students thinking...If you've never puzzled over the shape of a dodecaborane, you will now."--New Scientist

"Even the most uncoordinated klutz can assemble some of the simpler folded models, and -- believe it or not -- a few models (of linear and diatomic molecules) don't require folding!...Molecules are beautiful. A lot can be learned by making and examing models of them. At least one student and teacher recommend Molecular Origami to other students and teachers."--Current Biology

"Students will come to really understand bonding and stereochemistry while they are having fun...a unique approach!"--F. Thomas Bond, University of California at San Diego

"This book is a must for every high school chemistry classroom!"--James Bryn, Sparks High School, Nevada

"This unusual, useful, and enlightening volume is clearly a labor of love. It offers students and science teachers a unique, entertaining, hands-on approach to stereochemistry and makes an ideal gift for budding scientists."--Instructional Media

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