[Fester Chugabrew]

They're trying to build new molecules . . .

Sans principles of order? Sounds like the ultimate excercise in futility to me. I hope they are paid well.

[js1138]

Sans principles of order?

What makes you so hung up on principles of order. Pricniples of order and regularity are precisely what science seeks. They are collectively what makes geology, astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology science. It is the order discovered in biochemistry that makes evolution possible.

[Right Wing Professor]

Thye're not seeking principles of order. They may be using principles of order, but on the other hand physial chemists like myself tend to joke about organic chemists' 'rules'. For example, Woodward and Hoffman came up with some useful quantum mechanical rules that govern how certain reactions go. So, reactions which follow these rules are called "Woodward-Hoffmann' Triuble is, there are some reactions that don't follow the rules, and they're called anti-Woodward-Hoffmnn. One thing is sure, though; all reactions in this class are one or the other.