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Re:Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Bertozzi, Meldal, and... by zasdffaa on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:46AM (#33094770)
Ah, so we're definitely not talking bolting together the little stuff, like pyrrole + benzene ring kind of thing?
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Re:Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Bertozzi, Meldal, and... by throwawaymaths on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:53AM (#33094883)
You can do that (glue together two tiny molecules of arbitrary size) but the connector that you get that joins the two pieces in the resulting molecule is not arbitrary.
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