Aspects of Molecular Beauty

Náray-Szabó, Gábor (2008) Aspects of Molecular Beauty. SYMMETRY: ART AND SCIENCE, 2008 (Specia). pp. 75-78. ISSN 1447-607X

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Abstract

Molecules are objects of nature like a landscape, a plant, an animal or a human. Accordingly they may be beautiful, especially in the eyes of a chemist who works at his/her computer and constructs, inspects and understands molecular models. These models serve chemical thinking, experiments can be designed with much more certainty, molecular processes can be understood in more detail if we “see” our objects, i.e. we use more or less appropriate models reflecting the properties and action of the molecules. In this paper I discuss some aspects of molecular beauty and I must admit that my discussion is strongly biased. The reader will understand that I do like molecules, I enjoy work with them on the screen and presenting them in my lectures to laymen or to experts. I would share this feeling with artists and aesthetes, strongly believing that they may share my feelings upon inspection of colorful and rich in shape molecular models.

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