5. The colors of copper

6. The colors of cobalt

7. For Anne — Ultramarine

8. rose window at
Chartres
Cathedral,
France

9. Composition of Glass - SiO2
silicon
oxygen
When fewer than
1 out of 100 Si atoms
is replaced by
Cobalt, Co,
the glass is deep blue.
The blue color is due to
an impurity in the glass.
A small piece of glass
having local order

10. Beauty due to Impurity Ruby is corundum with chromium impurity
Sapphire is corundum with iron and titanium impurities
Emerald is beryl with chromium impurity

11. Copper metal
Verdigris
Pigment as
crystals
Verdigris
Pigment
ground

13. A porphyrin

14. A porphyrin

15. Inorganikers Organikers Ansel Adams, Aspens
Claude Monet, Garden at Giverny
Organikers

17. Frank Mallory said “Adamantane”. “C10 H14”
“I find it to be a beautiful structure because of its
shape and symmetry—the fact that you can trace out
four chair-form cyclohexanes.
Also it has the same carbon skeleton as diamond.”
a piece of diamond

19. Pat Carroll, X-ray crystallographer University of Pennsylvania
“I've been thinking about your all weekend! Beauty in Crystallography, huh?
It's a difficult thing to put into words because in crystallography,
it's all wrapped up with that feeling that you get when you see a structure solving.
It's got to do also with the complexity of things like molecules and unit cells
and being able to view them in a way that brings out their simplicity.”

20. “You first wonder, "Why would those 4 chloroforms cluster there?
“You first wonder, "Why would those 4 chloroforms cluster there?
Is there some kind of electronic interaction?"
But when you switch to 100% vdW, you see how they fit into the "bowl" formed by the porphyrin.
There would be another porphyrin on either side of the solvents
making an infinite sandwich along the c-axis.”
“When you first see this, you might wonder, ‘Why do they stack like that?
Is there an electronic interaction?’
But when you switch to vdW, it's obvious that the two molecules just "fit" nicely together.
I call these my "hugging" molecules.”
Rob Scarrow, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Haverford College
Tetrapeptide
Hexapeptide
“Structures.
It’s neat how the molecules fit together.”

21. Chem 3d

24. Chem 3d

25. Susan White, Professor of Biological Chemistry
“What’s beautiful? Any big structure with lots of atoms.”
Nitrate Reductase protein

26. the molybdenum!
2 porphyrins!

38. “Beauty does not reside in simplicity. Nor in complexity.
For a molecule or a song, for a ceramic vase or a play,
beauty is created out of the labor of human hands and minds.
It is to be found, precarious, at some tense edge
where symmetry and asymmetry,
simplicity and complexity,
order and chaos,
contend.”
Roald Hoffmann, Professor of Chemistry,
Nobel Laureate
my “hero”

43. Biosynthesis of Chlorophyll