Organic:conventions
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Conventions in Organic Chemistry
Most organic (synthetic) chemists tend to follow a set of conventions in drawing out their reactions. One quickly learns that these are not necessarily (IUPAC) standards, but part of the commonly accepted folklore. As such, it can be sometimes difficult to find out what these mean in more formal textbooks. Sometimes even lecturers and tutors forget that they have to be learnt, and just assume they are absorbed by osmosis or other process. So collected here is a short collection of some of the conventions that might have otherwise slipped through the nets of lectures and tutorials.
