If the British Parliament passes a new terrorism law that would criminalize “the dissemination of some chemistry textbooks” (‘cuz they “contain basic explosive experiments”), what’s next? Academic abstracts of provocative chemical coupling?
![{trans-1,4-Bis[(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]benzene}(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) Complexes and Their Supramolecular Assemblies with -Cyclodextrin](http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/inocaj/43/i11/figures/ic0352250n00001.gif)
We’re told this diagram, which illustrates “a reaction involving two inorganic molecules,” is from “an entirely serious article” in the journal Inorganic Chemistry. It looks pretty unserious to us, though we have no idea what the actual formulation means. Could it possibly be erotic?
— Tireless Staff of Thousands
