Carbon coordinates: what if Descartes had been an organic chemist?

Canadian Chemical News | May 1, 2004| | Copyright

One of the most fundamentally assumed dogmas in science is the presence, or even the omnipresence, of Cartesian coordinates. Whatever one wants to represent in the plane or in 3D space, chemical entities included, one uses these coordinates. The traditional sciences, as well as several newer branches of chemistry, were built on the basis of Cartesian coordinates. Many domains of learning, such as physical chemistry, simply cannot live without them. This text is a scherzo con variazioni (1) on the theme of coordinate systems which would be appropriate to describe certain types ...

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