FINAL LIST: Entries into the Organic Chemistry Haiku Contest - Fall 2002

I. From: David Floriolli, San Diego State University
To borrow from Shakespeare's Hamlet:

Substitution 1
Or elimination 2?
That is the question

II. From Ethan Eisen, Yeshiva University, New York
going for pre-med,
take organic chemistry...
you want fries with that?

III. From Nick Newsom, Christian Brothers University
Van der Wals forces
A little bit of ring strain
This sounds too painful

IV. From Jeremy Haakenson , UC - Davis
Grignard reagents.
Two pairs of large purple gloves.
O-Chem at Davis.

V. From "Julie D", UC-Davis
We need Oxygen
Too much can really hurt you
Too little can too

VI. From Nelson Allen, UC-Davis
The Philosopher's Stone

By the Stone vigor
of sulfur arise, pathway
to the Golden Plane