Bredt's Rule Disproven

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Chemists just broke a 100-year-old rule and say it's time to rewrite the textbooks

 

[thejuice]

Chemistry is all greek to me!

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Perhaps that is because a lot of it is.

Explaining Greek symbols in organic chemistry

 

[thejuice]

My brain starts melting down when I try to read that haha

 

[Tom]

"It states that molecules cannot have a carbon-carbon double bond at the ring junction of a bridged bicyclic molecule..."

Well it was an impressive sounding rule while it lasted.

 

[Shamar]

Chemists just broke a 100-year-old rule and say it's time to rewrite the textbooks

It happens somewhat regularly. They used to say that a pentagonal crystal was impossible, until a few years ago when they found one.

 

[Outdated]

From my year 8 maths teacher - "There are exceptions to every rule including this one."

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Chemists just broke a 100-year-old rule and say it's time to rewrite the textbooks

That was good Organic Chemistry is something I was good easiest form of chemistry for me to learn in college.