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Designed as a workbook and resource for students, teachers and chemists who want to create and study paper models of molecules and ions, this book includes: folding instructions; basic background information about bonding; general questions and answers; and over 60 tear-out model patterns representing basic shapes and ideas. The shapes and models are based on actual data and provided in scale. A sampling of more exotic structures - such as buckyball and dodecaborane - are also included.

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Each pattern comes complete with chemistry questions to set students thinking...If you've never puzzled over the shape of a dodecaborane, you will now. --New Scientist Even the most uncoordinated klutz can assemble some of the simpler folded models, and -- believe it or not -- a few models (of linear and diatomic molecules) don't require folding!...Molecules are beautiful. A lot can be learned by making and examining models of them. At least one student and teacher recommend Molecular Origami to other students and teachers. --Current Biology This unusual, useful, and enlightening volume is clearly a labor of love. It offers students and science teachers a unique, entertaining, hands-on approach to stereochemistry and makes an ideal gift for budding scientists. --Instructional Media

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Robert Hanson is a Professor of Chemistry at St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota, where he has been teaching since 1986. Trained as an organic chemist with Gilbert Stork at Columbia University, he shares a patent with 2001 Nobel Prize winner K.Barry Sharpless for the asymmetric epoxidation of allylic alcohols. His interest in thermodynamics goes back to early training at the California Institute of Technology, from which he got a B.S. degree in 1979. He spends his occasional moments of free time playing the violin in a community orchestra, piloting gliders, and designing new Sudoku strategies.

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