Not being a chemist... [purplecthulhu]

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... I have no idea how much of a spoof this paper is:

Synthesis of Anthropomorphic Molecules: The NanoPutians

http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/joceah/2003/68/i23/pdf/jo0349227.pdf?isMac=292419

Anyone care to comment?????

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It looks like real chemistry, but I'm not enough of an expert to be sure. Of course most of the "structure" in the diagrams is simply the conventions we use to draw molecules, and somewhat divorced from reality.

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Apparently it's quite genuine!

http://www.nano.gov/html/edu/interviews/JTour.html

http://www.nature.com/news/1998/031013/full/news031013-3.html
(Nature or Athens login needed)

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Nature not having got their act together and signed up for the federation, rather a lot of people will be somewhat stuck (JISC funding of Athens stopped on 1 August)....

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