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Nature 443, 1-2 (7 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/443001b; Published online 6 September 2006

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How to excite an organic chemist.

Many organic chemists spend their days searching for creative solutions to real-world problems, yet the media pays them just a fraction of the attention devoted to physicists or biologists. Even fellow scientists think organic chemistry is esoteric.