Prebiotic chemistry and origins of life (continued)...

[Cymric]

Karlos wrote:
I have to confess that I was unable to keep a straight face in  one lecture (in a series on frontier orbital theory, a QM application used in explaining reaction pathways) when the completely sombre lecturer announced: "And here we see the end result of the backside attack of the HOMO on the LUMO".

It was very childish of me, I know :-)

You missed out on the wonderful world of chemical engineering then, where we had to learn about the backside attack of the HOMO and the outcome of the penetration theory.

Of heat, inertia and matter, you sickos. It's respectable science, not some g33k l33t pr0n course!

[Karlos]

Not to mention the spectroscopic aspects of virbrational excitation and stimulated emission.

Finbarr Saunders would have had a field day in those lectures :-D