What are some common mistakes students make when converting Fischer Projections to Bond Line Views?
1 Answer
Apr 30, 2018
Just to retire this question....
Explanation:
...the one fatal mistake you can make is NOT to make a model. There may be some people who can look at a perspective formula on the written page, and translate this to three-dimensional geometry in their mind's-eye. I am not one of them, and would ALWAYS make a model to inform my reasoning and my sense of geometry. And distinguished professors of inorganic and organic chemistry would ALWAYS have models of their target molecules on their desks.
And I add that molecular models are always permitted examination materials.
