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"Useful in teaching chemical bonding concepts not only in
high school and freshman chemistry classes, but also in
undergraduate inorganic chemistry."
--Science
"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
"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 examing models of them. At least one student and
teacher recommend Molecular Origami to other students and
teachers."
--Current Biology
"Students will come to really understand bonding and
stereochemistry while they are having fun...a unique
approach!"
--F. Thomas Bond, University of California at San Diego
"This book is a must for every high school chemistry
classroom!"
--James Bryn, Sparks High School, Nevada
This is a fun, hands-on guide to understanding the basic structure and chemistry of matter. Drawing on the Japanese art of paperfolding, the book provides rip-out patterns for 124 molecules, along with easy instructions for folding them into scale models, many of which are three-dimensional. The molecules progress from simple ones like methane to more exotic structures such as quartz and buckminsterfullerenes. Questions and discussions are included.
