Michelle Francl muses on fantastic beasts of chemistry and why we try to find them.
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The author thanks the entire chemistry faculty at UC Irvine between 1976 and 1983, who taught me what it meant to be passionate about molecules.
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Francl, M. Making molecular monsters. Nature Chem 10, 1–2 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2920
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