There's a famous pedagogical trick for remembering trig functions involving drawing a hexagon with alternating sides, with a circle in the middle, writing the number 1 in the circle, and there's a bunch of rotational and symmetric operations one can do to then get the trig functions from this diagram and remember them more easily. Learning about this made me think of benzene straight …

Hi! I’m looking to calculate the chemical stability of small molecules via DFT. is there a particular metric which can be used as a proxy for this? submitted by /u/longsightdon [link] [comments]