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You may notice that the reason this thread exists in the 1st place is because I culled most of the "non-academic" posts from the "academic" random-molecules thread. Dresden clearly put some effort into all these doodles and it felt wrong to summarily erase it, so instead of having it distract from pharmacology discussion, the posts were given their own home in another thread.
And you'll also note that:
Clearly Dresden finds some utility in posting these, and it's not harming anyone at all. While most molecules here are clearly not bioactive and there is no deep pharmacology discussion, that's not necessarily the point for this particular thread. Sure, "discussion" of random structures by simple assignment of non-IUPAC aformulaic "nicknames" is trifling, but there are no other threads on BL like this with an ephasis on the beauty of random molecular structures irrespective of their pharmacological properties.
This thread exists for the benefit of those who choose to peruse it, it's sticky to "mop up" other discussions of the same ilk and gives this thread some visibility. If you don't like the thread, don't read it. Nobody is forcing you. If you wanted to make it productive you could pretend these were total synthesis targets and doodle reaction schemes to make them, as an intellectual experiment.
Also, to anyone else reading, this thread is perfectly acceptable to be posted in by the "less experienced chemists" if you want to try your hand at doodling molecules. Everyone has to start somewhere, inventing names for silly molecules is a harmless enough practice of molecular structure drawing/definition. This thread isn't meant to be a graveyard, that's why it's sticky'd.
And you'll also note that:
As of this post there are 48 blog posts... rather industrious sortDresden said:
Clearly Dresden finds some utility in posting these, and it's not harming anyone at all. While most molecules here are clearly not bioactive and there is no deep pharmacology discussion, that's not necessarily the point for this particular thread. Sure, "discussion" of random structures by simple assignment of non-IUPAC aformulaic "nicknames" is trifling, but there are no other threads on BL like this with an ephasis on the beauty of random molecular structures irrespective of their pharmacological properties.This thread exists for the benefit of those who choose to peruse it, it's sticky to "mop up" other discussions of the same ilk and gives this thread some visibility. If you don't like the thread, don't read it. Nobody is forcing you. If you wanted to make it productive you could pretend these were total synthesis targets and doodle reaction schemes to make them, as an intellectual experiment.
Also, to anyone else reading, this thread is perfectly acceptable to be posted in by the "less experienced chemists" if you want to try your hand at doodling molecules. Everyone has to start somewhere, inventing names for silly molecules is a harmless enough practice of molecular structure drawing/definition. This thread isn't meant to be a graveyard, that's why it's sticky'd.
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