Hexagons...
…are succeeding in driving me mildly insane – I’m currently revising organic chemistry, and you wouldn’t believe the number of bloody benzene rings that involves drawing out. I swear at some point drawing hexagons really is going to push me over the edge, and drive me to a rage-fueled hexagon-driven murderous rampage.

Within a few days just seeing a hexagon is going to bring me out in a cold sweat.

Ahem, minor rant over. Sorry, just needed to get that off my chest! Excuse me whilst I return to lurking...
(Captain Backfire, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 20:22, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Hexagons
Are probably my favourite shape. But then, being a Maths teacher that shouldn't surprise people that I have a favourite shape.

By the way, it's rather quick and easy to draw a hexagon with just a compass, pencil and straight edge.
(scentless_apprentice takes two bottles into the shower!, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 20:29, Reply)

Oh,
my hexagons are a lot more haphazard than that - it's not really that I have an issue with drawing them, more the fact that there are so many of them... the point I'm at at the moment, I have to draw at least 4 or 5 hexagons for every reaction =(
(Captain Backfire, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 20:34, Reply)

.
I send my sympathies. The hexagons are worse than the ridiculously long carbon chains and having to write all those tiny 'H's.
Good luck with the revision and stuff :)
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 21:36, Reply)

Can I confuse you
by throwing in a tetrahydrofuran molecule?

Pentagons are easier on the eye, and quicker to draw by one stroke.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 21:50, Reply)

err you do know
that Its perfectly acceptable to replace the hexagon with a 'Ph' don't you? as in styrene= PhCHCH₂
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 21:59, Reply)

Or
you could do as I used to do in the Bad Old Days and use a template...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 28 Aug 2008, 22:16, Reply)

^
er, what?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 29 Aug 2008, 9:48, Reply)

Unfortunately
I can't just throw in a Ph, as it's mechanisms I'm going through, so I need to draw all the electron arrowy things all over the hexagons aswell. Still, only 8 more pages of hexagons to go, then I get the joys of carbonyls instead - yay...
(Captain Backfire, Fri 29 Aug 2008, 10:12, Reply)