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Sketch Chemistry
A comic collaboration between C&EN and ChemScrapes cartoonist Brendan Burkett
To see more of Burkett’s chemistry cartoons, go to chemscrapes.net.
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Molecular road trip (Posted June 28, 2022)
Transition metal apps. (Posted May 23, 2022)
Two flasks walk into a bar (Posted March 21, 2022)
Space-filling invaders (Posted February 7, 2022)
Atomic clock (Posted January 13, 2022)
Glassware doctor (Posted Nov 30, 2021)
Scary campfire stories for sugars (Posted October 28, 2021)
Olympic solubility problems (Posted September 21, 2021)
Museum of chemical horrors (Posted July 16, 2021)
High school chemical literature (Posted June 7, 2021)
Micelle mediator (Posted May 13, 2021)
Polymer déjà vu (Posted April 6, 2021)
Ring stand-up comedy (Posted March 9, 2021)
No one loves an irritant (Posted February 16, 2021)
We updated this cartoon on Feb. 25, 2021, to remove gender stereotypes about dating. In the original cartoon, the molecule on the right had long eyelashes and a drink with an umbrella in it and said, “It’s just not gonna work! All my friends find you very irritating.”
Statin to the rescue (Posted January 19, 2021)
Labware on holiday (Posted December 21, 2020)
State of detergency (Posted November 19, 2020)
Glassware massage therapy (Posted October 12, 2020)
Molecular gym (Posted September 14, 2020)
Electron transport (Posted August 13, 2020)
Unsaturated party crasher (Posted July 16, 2020)
Nucleophilic substitute teacher (Posted June 17, 2020)
Social staggering (Posted May 12, 2020)
Glassware bungee (Posted March 10, 2020)
Rebound substitution (Posted February 13, 2020)
Correction
A Facebook reader noted that the mechanism depicted in the original cartoon would probably favor elimination of HBr in the presence of ethoxide. We agree. We updated the cartoon on Feb. 24, 2020, to replace the basic ethoxide with ethanol.
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Performance chemicals (Posted March 5, 2018)
Biofilms (posted February 6, 2018)
Interfacebook check-in (posted January 12, 2018)
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Molecular nightmares (posted March 8, 2017)
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