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Michelle Francl wonders what it is that makes a molecule elegant.

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  1. Michelle Francl is the Herdegen Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation and is in the Department of Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-2899, USA,

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Francl, M. Zen and the art of molecules. Nature Chem 4, 142–144 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1279

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