Saturday, April 3, 2010

Chemistry Mad Libs Round 2!

Here's a little snippit I've found in Science.

In this scenario, a (adjective) catalyst might (verb) with a protonated substrate through the (noun) and induce enantioselectivity in (adverb) addition reactions to the (adjective) electrophile through specific (adjective) interactions with the charged (noun).


This is what I ended up with:

In this scenario, a hairy catalyst might exercise with a protonated substrate through the fish tank and induce enantioselectivity in aggresive addition reactions to the bloated electrophile through specific sneaky interactions with the charged rattle snake.


This is the original:

In this scenario, a chiral catalyst might associate with a protonated substrate through the counteranion and induce enantioselectivity in nucleophilic addition reactions to the cationic electrophile through specific secondary interactions with the charged species.

H. Xu, S. J. Zuend, M. G. Woll, Y. Tao, E. N. Jacobsen. Asymmetric Cooperative Catalysis of Strong Brønsted Acid-Promoted Reactions using Chiral Ureas. Science 2010, 327, 986–990.