Carnival of molecules. Chemistry is unusual and funny

If you want to know more about chemistry than it is written in textbooks, the Carnival of Molecules is a book for you. If this science seems uninteresting to you, then all the more it is worth revealing the book of Mikhail Levitsky - and you will understand how entertaining and fascinating chemistry can be. How is it related to architecture? Why did three groups of scientists from different countries simultaneously tried to synthesize insulin and who, in the end, received the Nobel Prize for this? Finally, how did the American fifth -grader accidentally “constructed” a new explosive molecule in the chemistry lesson? Mikhail Levitsky tells about significant and interesting discoveries and their authors, about the achievements of modern chemistry so as to captivate even an unprepared reader. At the same time, unlike the textbook, the book does not have a consistent presentation of the foundations of chemistry, so it can be read, starting with any chapter. This book will help parents attract the attention of schoolchildren to the study of natural sciences, high school teachers - make classes more exciting, and students and graduate students who have chosen chemistry with their specialty - to trace how the course of the researcher"s reasoning leads to valuable scientific results